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.
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

A recipe holds one photo, so adding a new one takes the old one’s place.

Replace — tap Replace under the thumbnail and pick a new image.
Remove — tap Remove, then confirm. Removing is permanent: a photo isn’t kept in the recipe’s history, so restoring an older version won’t bring it back.

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.