Recipe photos

Give a recipe one photo — the finished dish, the cookbook page you cooked it from. It sits in the recipe’s header, beside the title on a wide screen and below the title block on a phone.

Add a photo

Open the recipe.
Tap Add photo on the second row of actions below the recipe title, next to Pin. It’s there only while the recipe has no photo.
Pick an image. On a phone the picker offers your camera or your library; on a computer it opens the file picker.

The photo appears as a thumbnail next to the title. Mirepoix resizes it and converts it to JPEG in your browser, so it doesn’t matter what format you start from.

If Mirepoix turns the photo down — the file isn’t an image it can read, or your kitchen’s shared photo storage is full — the photo isn’t added and a note under the header says why. If the upload itself fails, usually a lost connection, you’ll see The photo couldn’t be added. and can try again.

Replace or remove the photo

Both live in the editor, not on the recipe page. The photo on the recipe page is just the photo.

Open the recipe and tap Edit.
The photo sits above the title, with Replace and Remove beneath it.
Tap Replace and pick a new image, or tap Remove and confirm.

A recipe holds one photo, so a new one takes the old one’s place. Removing is permanent: a photo isn’t kept in the recipe’s history, so restoring an older version won’t bring it back.

Photo changes take effect right away. They don’t wait for Done, and Cancel doesn’t undo them.

You can add a photo from the editor too — a recipe with no photo shows Add photo in that same spot. A recipe you’re still typing from scratch shows nothing there: until you save it once, there’s nothing to attach a photo to.

A photo that came in with an import

When an import comes from a web page and that page carries a photo in its recipe data, Mirabel brings that photo over. Open the draft in the editor and the photo is already there — below the title and the recipe’s details, with a Remove button under it.

Leave it and it’s attached to the recipe when you save.
Tap Remove and nothing is attached.

There’s no Replace before saving. Save the recipe, then replace the photo in the editor like any other.

Any web page brings its photo along — a link you paste or type into the message box, and a page you hand her with the bookmarklet or the Share sheet. A recipe you paste, photograph, or import from a file brings none. A photo you attach for her to read is only ever read — it never becomes the recipe’s own photo. A page whose recipe data has no photo imports the same way, just without one.

View the photo full size

Tap the thumbnail to open the photo full size.

Tap the photo to zoom in to full size; tap again to fit it back to the screen.
Tap ×, press Esc, or tap outside the photo to close.

Captions

There are none. The photo’s description for screen readers comes from the recipe title, so there’s nothing to type.

Who can see the photo

Anyone who can open the recipe can see the photo and open it full size. Only kitchen members can add, replace, or remove it — people viewing a shared recipe can look but not change anything.

Mirepoix strips location metadata from a photo before storing it, so sharing the recipe can’t reveal where the photo was taken.