Remixing a Recipe

Love a recipe but always make it a little differently? Remix it. A remix is your own copy of another cook's recipe, saved under your name, that keeps a link back to the one it came from. Change what you like; the original stays exactly as its chef wrote it.

How to remix a recipe

1. Sign in and open the recipe you want to adapt.
2. Choose Remix from the actions on the recipe page.
3. The recipe editor opens with a copy of the recipe filled in: the title, description, photo, ingredients, steps and step photos. A note at the top shows which recipe you're remixing and whose it is.
4. Make your changes, choose who can see it, and save.

What you need to change

A remix has to change the ingredients. Before it will save, change at least one of these:

• An amount or a unit
• An ingredient's preparation note (say, "diced" instead of "sliced")
• Add an ingredient, or remove one

Rewording the steps or renaming the recipe is welcome, but on its own it doesn't make a remix.

Make it yours

• Rename it. The copy starts with the original's title. A name that says what you changed, like "Slow Cooker Chili" or "Dairy-Free Mac and Cheese", helps people find your version.
• Use your own photos. The original's cover and step photos are copied in to start you off. Swap in pictures of your own cooking before you share it.
• Tell people what's different. A line in the description about what you changed and why makes your remix far more useful to other cooks.

Who can see your remix

You choose, just as for any recipe you write: Public for anyone to find, Household for the people you cook with, or Only me for a private copy that's just for your kitchen. You can change it later.

Credit stays with the recipe

Your remix shows Remix of and the original's name above its title, and the original shows how many remixes it has. Either one opens Recipe history, where you can see where a recipe came from and the remixes made from it. When you publish a remix publicly, the original's chef gets a notification (in the app, and by email if they've chosen to) and earns reputation for it.

Good to know

• One remix per recipe. Once you've remixed a recipe, its button reads Your remix and takes you to yours. Edit it whenever you like; it keeps its own version history.
• Remixes can be remixed. If someone has already turned a recipe into a slow cooker version, you can remix that version too.
• Your own recipes: to change one of your own recipes, edit it instead of remixing it.
• Paid recipes: a recipe you haven't bought can't be remixed until you buy it.
• Changes don't travel. Editing your remix never changes the original, and later changes to the original don't change your remix.