How we source & what we add

Consomee's base recipe data — ingredients, quantities and method — comes from TheMealDB, a free and open recipe database that provides a public API for developers to build on. We link back to the original entry on every recipe page.

What Consomee adds to every recipe

• An answer-first introduction written from each recipe’s own ingredients, cuisine and method.
• A serving scaler that re-calculates every ingredient quantity (fractions included).
• An ingredient checklist split into pantry staples and a shopping list, so you can see what you already have.
• A unit converter for volume, weight and temperature.
• Estimated time, difficulty and equipment, derived from the recipe’s steps and ingredients and clearly labelled as estimates.
• Substitutions, storage tips and common questions.
• Structured method steps and links to related dishes and what to serve alongside.

Original Consomee recipes

Alongside the open data, we publish recipes written in-house: original method and measured ingredients developed from scratch for dishes readers want to cook. These are our own wording — not copied from any single source — and they carry the same serving scaler, ingredient checklist and tools as every other page. Some other pages build on open, community-licensed cookbook text (CC BY-SA), which we credit and link on the page itself.

We never invent ratings, reviews, or precise nutrition or cooking times we haven't derived — anything estimated is labelled as such. Where a recipe shows a photo, it's from the source database or a clearly credited open-licence image; we don't claim it as our own.