Fifteen years of recipes on loose scraps
The chef behind Savour has been in kitchens for fifteen years. All that time the recipes were a mess: coffee-stained scraps of paper, photos on different phones, some of which broke before the recipes were saved, and Word documents scattered across folders and laptops.
The hardest part was not even the mess itself, but that nothing was in one place. The moment you needed a recipe, in the middle of mise en place or just before service, it was nowhere to be found.
Marshmallow
Spongecake lavas
Eendenhuid krokant
Witte chocolade moussePressing print fifty times
As head chef you hand almost every recipe to your cooks. When everything was finally in separate Word files, the next problem appeared: front of house had to print them one by one, because there was no way to print fifty at once.
Somewhere between those piles of paper came the question Savour started with: why is there nothing for this that simply works in a real kitchen?
Built after service
Not a developer, but a chef who knows exactly where it hurts. Savour was built step by step, for months, at weekends and after service.
Every feature was tested on our own recipes, in our own kitchen: importing hundreds of Word recipes at once, photos of stained notes that are accidentally upside down, and folders the whole team can open. One chef imported 1,400 recipes this way in about two minutes.
Why Savour costs €2.99
For the hard cases, such as a photo of a handwritten note, Savour uses AI. That costs money every time, which is why Savour Pro exists.
But Savour had to stay affordable for every cook, not only for large groups with big budgets. €2.99 a month is roughly what that AI costs. What Savour can read by itself, such as Word and PDF, stays free, as does keeping up to 100 recipes.
What Savour does today
Import your whole recipe book in a few minutes. Organise recipes in folders, for example all your ice cream recipes, and print that whole folder with one press of a button. Share recipes and folders with colleagues, who can add recipes to them themselves.
And scale: one recipe makes fifty brownies and you need a thousand? Savour does the maths. On the computer, the tablet and the phone in the kitchen.
What we still want to build
Cost per recipe and allergens at a glance are at the top of the list. If Savour works well on computer, tablet and phone, we will see whether a separate app for iPhone and Android is worth the investment.
We do not decide that behind a desk, but together with the chefs who use Savour. Missing something in your kitchen? Let us know.