Some of the best recipes are written in languages you don't read — a grandmother's Cantonese soup, a Japanese home-cooking blog. Generic translation tools handle the words but often mangle the parts that matter.
Why generic translation falls short
- Units get garbled or left in the original system.
- Ingredient names translate literally and lose the real item.
- Step formatting collapses into one hard-to-follow block.
What good recipe translation preserves
A proper translation keeps the structure — separate ingredient list and ordered steps — and translates cooking terms sensibly, so you can actually cook from the result rather than decode it.
CookBuddy turns any recipe link or YouTube cooking video into a clean, cookable recipe — then helps you plan, shop, and cook hands-free. It's free to start. It translates saved recipes into 6 languages while preserving the ingredient list, steps, and structure — so a recipe stays cookable in your language. Pair it with hands-free Cook Mode to cook from the translation.
Keep the original alongside the translation for tricky technique words — sometimes the source term is clearer once you know what dish you're making.
