Getting started with Savour
What is Savour
Savour is a recipe app for professional kitchens. You bring all your recipes together in one place: from Word, PDF, photos of handwritten notes, websites and other recipe apps. Then you organise them in folders and categories, scale them to any yield, print them for the binder at the pass and share them with your brigade in a kitchen team.
Who it is for
For head chefs, sous-chefs, pastry chefs, caterers and culinary schools: anyone who needs to keep, share and quickly find recipes. Home cooks can use Savour too, but the app is built for kitchen work: large quantities, standard recipes and a team working from the same version. Read more at For chefs and For kitchen brigades.
Start in four steps
This gets your first recipes into Savour within fifteen minutes:
- Create an account, or look around the demo first without an account.
- Import your recipes: one Word file or PDF with all your recipes is enough to start.
- Check what was read and save.
- Put Savour on your phone as an app, so your recipes are always at hand in the kitchen.
Free or Savour Pro
A free account keeps up to 100 recipes and imports Word, PDF and text. With Savour Pro you keep unlimited recipes, AI reads photos of handwritten notes, you create kitchen teams and you print with your restaurant’s logo. New accounts get 7 days of Pro for free.
On every device
Savour runs in the browser on computer, tablet and phone. Importing, organising and printing are easiest on a computer; looking things up in the kitchen on a phone or tablet. Your recipes live in the cloud: on a new device you log in and everything is there.
Creating an account
Create your account
Choose “Start for free” on savour.page. Enter your first name, last name, email address and a password and choose “Create account”. No payment details needed.
Confirm your email address
You receive an email with a link to confirm your account. Click the link and then “Continue” in Savour. No email? Check your spam folder. If you try to log in without confirming, Savour offers to send a new confirmation email. A link from an email works once and for one hour; if you request several, only the newest works.
Seven days of Savour Pro
Every new account gets 7 days of Savour Pro for free. You can have photos of notes read, create a kitchen team and print with your logo. During the trial you keep up to 100 recipes. After the trial week you keep everything you made.
Invited by a colleague
If a colleague sent you a link, Savour opens “Create account” straight away. You get the same trial week, and your colleague gets 14 days of Pro as a thank-you once you have confirmed your email address and logged in. If you received a kitchen team invitation, you join that team after logging in. See Inviting a colleague and Inviting your team.
Email address already has an account
If Savour says the email address already has an account, no new confirmation email is sent. Log in instead, or choose “Forgot password?” if you no longer know the password.
Next
After confirming you see the welcome screen with a short checklist. Start importing or enter a recipe yourself. A plan for the first days is in Your first week with Savour.
Logging in and passwords
Logging in
Choose “Log in” at the top right of savour.page and enter your email address and password. Your recipes, folders and kitchen teams are ready straight away, on every device you log in on.
Stay signed in
With “Stay signed in” ticked you stay logged in, even after closing the browser or app. It is also needed to open your recipes without internet. On a shared kitchen computer or tablet, leave it off: you are logged out as soon as the window closes.
Remember password
With “Remember password” your browser’s password manager may keep your password, so you don’t have to type it next time. Switch it off on a shared device.
Forgot password
Choose “Forgot password?” in the login window. You receive an email with a link. Click it, choose “Continue” in Savour and set a new password under My account. The link works once and for one hour.
Logging out
Log out under My account → Account. On your own phone there is no need; on a shared tablet there is, or leave “Stay signed in” off.
Not working?
Problems logging in lists the most common messages and what to do about them.
Trying the demo
Opening the demo
Choose “View the demo” on the home page. You see Savour as a logged-in chef sees it, with 40 sample recipes, folders per section and a kitchen team.
What you can try
Open recipes, scale them, start cook mode, search for an ingredient and browse the folders. You can try importing too: you see what the Savour reader makes of your file.
What the demo does not do
Nothing is saved in the demo. The top says “Demo account · nothing is saved”. To keep your own recipes, create an account.
Leaving the demo
Logging out of the demo takes you back to the home page. Nothing from the demo stays behind in your browser.
Installing Savour as an app
No app store
Savour is a web app: you add it to your home screen from the website. It then opens in its own window with its own icon, and you always have the latest version automatically. More on the App page.
iPhone and iPad
Open savour.page in Safari. Tap Share at the bottom (the square with the arrow pointing up), choose “Add to Home Screen” and tap “Add”.
Android
Open savour.page in Chrome. Tap ⋮ at the top right and choose “Install app” or “Add to Home screen”. When you are logged in, you can also use General → Install app in Savour’s menu.
Computer
In Chrome or Edge, click the install icon on the right of the address bar, or choose “Install app” under General in Savour. On a Mac with Safari, choose File → “Add to Dock”.
Without internet too
Log in once with “Stay signed in” ticked and open your recipes. After that Savour opens your library even when the kitchen wifi drops. See Working without internet.
A shared tablet at the pass
Put Savour on a tablet the whole team uses. If several people use it with their own account, leave “Stay signed in” off. If everyone works from the same kitchen team, everyone sees the same recipes.
Your first week with Savour
Day 1: get everything in
Collect your Word files, PDFs and old exports and import them in one go. If you have handwritten notes, take photos of them during the Savour Pro trial week.
Day 2: review
Go through the recipes Savour marked for review. Compare doubtful ones with the original and check the numbers in particular. See Reviewing an import.
Day 3: tidy up
Remove numbers in front of recipe names and duplicate recipes with Clean up. Then add the default category list and let Savour suggest categories.
Day 4: organise
Create folders the way your kitchen works: by section, by menu or by season. Give your most used recipes a star.
Day 5: bring in the team
Create a kitchen team, add the base recipes and invite your team. Give your sous-chef the editor role.
Days 6 and 7: in the kitchen
Put Savour on the phones as an app and on the tablet at the pass, use cook mode during mise en place and print the binder for the pass.