How to turn TikTok recipes into something you can cook from

Save a TikTok recipe in Palato

1. Copy the video linkUse the share action on the TikTok video and copy its link.
2. Import it into PalatoShare the link to Palato, or paste it into Import link from the plus menu.
3. Review the draftCheck the ingredients, steps and portions Palato extracted, and edit anything the video left unclear.
4. Plan it or cook itSave it to a list, put it in your weekly plan, or open cooking mode and start.

The problem with cooking from a video

A sixty second recipe video is a genuinely good way to learn a technique and a genuinely bad way to run a kitchen. Quantities flash past in on-screen text, the order of steps only exists in the edit, and pausing and scrubbing with wet hands is its own small misery.

Worse, the video is not a list. You cannot check what you already have against it, and you cannot hand half of it to somebody else at the supermarket.

What the import produces

Palato imports from supported TikTok links, alongside supported Instagram links, websites, photos, screenshots and notes. What comes out is a structured recipe: ingredients as a list, steps in order, a portion count you can change.

Because the portion adjuster recalculates displayed quantities when the serving count changes, a video that cooked for two can be scaled to five without doing the arithmetic yourself.

Cooking from it afterwards

Cooking mode provides step by step navigation, timers and an optional always on screen, so the phone stops locking halfway through a sauce. The source link stays attached if you want to see the original technique again.

Completed cooking activity can contribute to your cooking history, streak and statistics, which quietly answers the question of what you actually cook rather than what you meant to cook.

Deciding what to cook when nobody wants to decide

Dinner Roulette supports a real-time group vote on items from your saved collection, which settles the recurring argument faster than a group chat does.

For the week as a whole, the Smart Planner builds a plan from your selected planning settings using a deterministic, rules-based algorithm. It does not use AI or a language model, so the same settings produce a predictable result.