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Torrere reads a recipe you paste in
Copy a recipe's text from anywhere, paste it into the box on Torrere's start screen, and send it. When the text looks like a recipe, with at least 200 characters and a couple of amounts in it, Torrere reads it the way it reads a web page: the title, what it serves, the ingredients and the steps, saved as a recipe you can change and cook from. Shorter text is read as a message instead.
Torrere decides whether a paste is a recipe
Torrere reads a paste on the start screen as a recipe when it's at least 200 characters long and has two or more amounts in it, or when it runs to five or more lines, three of them like a list. Anything else is taken as a message to Torrere, and Torrere writes the recipe with you from what you said. A short list of what's in the fridge becomes a conversation, and a recipe copied from a page becomes a recipe.
Inside a recipe you already have open, a paste is always a message. Paste a sauce from somewhere else and say what to do with it, and Torrere changes the recipe you're in.
Torrere reads the recipe as written and asks about the rest
Torrere's reader copies what the text says and adds nothing of its own. Its first message says what it read and how many it serves, and lists anything it couldn't make out. A temperature with no unit gets a question: was that Celsius or Fahrenheit? The recipe is saved straight away, and the first change card has a button to discard it if Torrere read the wrong thing.
If the method stops at the oven, Torrere adds one last step on how to serve the dish, as its own change that undo takes back.
Torrere reads long pastes, within a limit
A pasted recipe can be long. Torrere reads the first 256 KB of a paste, which is more than any one recipe needs, and ignores anything after it. If Torrere's reader runs out of room before the end of a recipe, Torrere says "That recipe is longer than I can read in one go. Try pasting it in parts." One paste makes one recipe: paste two and Torrere reads the first.
Torrere says why it couldn't read a paste
- "I couldn't find a recipe in that." The text didn't have a recipe in it that Torrere could find.
- "I wasn't able to read that one." Torrere's reader declined the text.
- "Couldn't read that just now." Something went wrong on Torrere's side. Sending it again usually works.
Torrere reads pastes as part of Chef
On the web, reading a pasted recipe is part of Chef, Torrere's subscription, and of Chef's free week. The Torrere apps for iPhone and Android come with a small amount of free cooking on each phone, and a paste uses it. Subscription says what each plan includes.
Torrere reads pasted text from other recipe apps
Text copied out of another recipe app reads the same as text from a web page. Moving recipes from another app says how to get the text out of Paprika, Mela, Copy Me That, AnyList and ReciMe.