Recipelist

Recipelist is a term used to describe a collection or catalog of recipes stored and managed within a software system, application, or database. It represents a structured set of recipe records that can be displayed to users, searched, filtered, and organized for cooking, meal planning, or culinary research. While not a formal standard, recipelist is commonly used in cooking apps, websites, and developer projects as a logical unit for handling multiple recipes.

In typical implementations, a recipelist comprises multiple recipe items. Each item usually includes fields such as an identifier, title or name, description, a list of ingredients (often with quantities and units), a sequence of preparation or cooking steps, and metadata like prep time, cook time, total time, servings, and difficulty. Additional attributes may include tags or categories, nutrition information, author or source, rating or popularity, and links to images or external references. Recipes may also reference related resources such as related recipes, collections, or user notes.

Common operations on a recipelist include creating new recipes, reading or retrieving existing ones, updating details, and deleting entries. Users typically support searching by name or ingredient, filtering by dietary restrictions or tags, sorting by popularity or time, and paginating results for display in lists or grids. Data is commonly serialized in formats such as JSON or XML, stored in relational or document databases, and rendered in user interfaces that present either a vertical list or a grid of recipe cards.

Recipelist concepts appear in personal apps, public culinary databases, and embedded systems for smart kitchens, serving as a practical model for organizing large collections of recipes.