Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to IngredientSubstitutes.com
I’m new to cooking, and one of the things that frustrated me right away was how often a recipe calls for something I don’t have: arrowroot, Aleppo peppers, or some random spice that isn’t in my pantry. I ended up putting together a simple site that catalogs ingredient substitutions in plain English: ingredientsubstitutes.com. It’s not fancy, but it’s been surprisingly useful for me (and hopefully others). Curious: how do you all normally handle substitutions?
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Find the perfect substitute for any cooking ingredient
Jul 2026 · ingredientreplace.com · its alternatives →
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After 25 years of making other people's pancake recipes - always yearning for more tang, more fluff, and more predictability - I decided to derive the pancake recipe from the chemistry. You mark checkboxes for what you have on hand (ricotta, sour cream, kefir, buttermilk, yogurt, cottage cheese, lemon, cream of tartar, etc.) and it computes the best recipe based on targets for acid, fat, salt, sugar, and CO2. My particular favorite are the yeast-raised lemon ricotta kefir pancakes - the best I've ever had. The math is done in a small pure-ESM library: ingredient composition to component…
Jun 2026 · absurdlyoptimized.com · its alternatives →
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Set of scripts and notebooks used to produce results visible in RecipeNLG paper - Glorf/recipenlg
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Just the Recipe▲133Remove clutter from recipes and get right to the instruction
2021 · justtherecipe.com · its alternatives →
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Search recipes by ingredients. Tons of recipes to choose.
2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Only The Recipe▲112Cut out the clutter and enjoy only the recipe
2024 · recipescal.com · its alternatives →
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Discover Meals▲128Find the meal recipes by the ingredients that you select.
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, COVID lockdowns made me and my wife cook a lot more at home, and we had a need to streamline our recipe management woes. These were some of the problems we identified: - Most recipe websites are what I call "mommy blogs", and the principal problem is that the recipe ingredient list and instructions are buried in a SEO-laden essay that we don't care about. We were sharing links to our favorite recipes, but links don't allow you to skip past the unnecessary essay prefacing the recipe. We knew we wanted a way to have recipes uncompromised by unrelated essays. - Popular recipe aggregating…
2022 · letscooktime.com · its alternatives →
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Recipee▲105Let AI create a grocery list from your YouTube videos
2023 · recipee.app · its alternatives →
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Spiceful▲5Your recipes, in one place with a grocery list.
Apr 2026 · getspiceful.com · its alternatives →
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Search recipes by name, category, or by ingredients you have
2022 · its alternatives →
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2014 · skipthepizza.com · its alternatives →
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Recipes with ingredients you have at home, easy & zero waste
2023 · yougotcooking.com · its alternatives →
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Omsom▲99Packaged starters to cook real deal Asian cuisine at home
2020 · omsom.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · en.feitaemcasa.com · its alternatives →
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