[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":173},["ShallowReactive",2],{"/blog/welcome":3,"/blog/welcome-related":155},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"category":137,"date":138,"description":139,"draft":140,"extension":141,"featured":142,"hero":143,"heroAlt":143,"meta":144,"navigation":142,"path":145,"seo":146,"series":143,"sitemap":147,"stem":148,"terms":149,"tools":150,"updated":143,"__hash__":154},"blog/blog/welcome.md","Welcome to Guided Kitchen",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":129},"minimark",[9,13,16,21,24,47,56,60,63,67,70,109,113,126],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Hello, and welcome. I'm Mark, and Guided Kitchen is the recipe app I've wanted for years.",[10,14,15],{},"It started with a simple problem. The recipes I actually cook were scattered across a dozen places: a bookmark to a food blog with three thousand words before the ingredients, a reel I saved at midnight and never found again, a screenshot of a screenshot, and a card in my mum's handwriting. 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The original stays exactly as the cook wrote it.",[28,42,43,46],{},[31,44,45],{},"Cook from a calm screen."," Cook mode shows one step at a time in large text, and turns \"simmer for 20 minutes\" into a timer you can start with a tap.",[10,48,49,50,55],{},"There's a fuller list on the ",[51,52,54],"a",{"href":53},"/features","features page",", and it only lists what works today. Things still being built are marked as such.",[17,57,59],{"id":58},"what-it-isnt","What it isn't",[10,61,62],{},"It isn't a social network, and it won't invent recipes for you. The AI in Guided Kitchen does one dull job: finding the recipe in a cluttered page or a video. It doesn't rewrite how a cook does things. 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Convert cups to grams for over a hundred ingredients, and run several named kitchen timers at once.","2026-10-22",{"path":162,"title":163,"description":164,"category":165,"date":166,"hero":143,"heroAlt":143},"/blog/why-your-salt-brand-matters","Why your salt brand matters more than you think","A tablespoon of Diamond Crystal holds half the salt of a tablespoon of table salt. Here's why, and how to season any recipe correctly with the salt you have.","kitchen-know-how","2026-10-21",{"path":168,"title":169,"description":170,"category":171,"date":172,"hero":143,"heroAlt":143},"/blog/planning-christmas-dinner","Planning Christmas dinner without the panic","A calm countdown for Christmas dinner, from the week before to the moment you carve, with timings for the turkey, potatoes and everything else.","seasonal","2026-10-18",1793287167957]