Guides

Short, practical guides that complement the Mintdish recipe parser — conversion cheat sheets, video-to-recipe walkthroughs, and the philosophy behind prep-first cooking.

• How to convert cups, ounces, and sticks of butter to grams

  An ingredient-aware cheat sheet for converting US recipe units to metric, and how Mintdish does it automatically.

• How to save a recipe from a YouTube cooking video

  Why YouTube recipes are hard to follow at the stove, and how Mintdish turns a video into structured ingredients and steps.

• The prep-first method: cook calmly, finish faster

  Why every cooking school teaches mise en place, and how to reorder any recipe so prep happens before the heat is on.