New feature: Upload a photo along with your recipe review

It’s great to see more and more recipe reviews appearing on ckbk each week! Reviews help to identify the standout dishes in ckbk’s large (and sometimes almost overwhelming) collection of cookbooks. Reviews are also a great way for users to share their practical tips, based on their experience cooking a recipe—and quite often the cookbook author may chime in with advice too. To make reviews even more useful, we’ve now added the ability to include a photo so you can show how the recipe worked out. Read on to find out how to use this feature, and how you could win a ckbk apron and free ckbk Premium Membership for a year.

How to upload a photo with your review

The photo upload feature is now available on the ckbk website and via the ckbk app, when you post a review on any recipe. If you don’t see see the option, check that you are on the latest app version (1.9.0 or higher). Just visit the App Store or Google Play to download the latest update if necessary.

Three reasons to post photos with your reviews

1. Share your real world experience

The photos in beautifully produced modern cookbooks are a testament to the impressive skills of chefs, home economists, food stylists and photographers, but for us mere mortals it can be reassuring to also see how a recipe works out in more ‘real world’ kitchen, so please do share results, even if they aren’t ‘picture perfect’.

2. Help bring old cookbooks to life

Another reason to share your recipe photos is that is can really help to make older cookbooks much more accessible. These books often do not include recipe photography (or may include photos, but only for a small fraction of recipes). Here are a few examples of some influential and critically acclaimed cookbooks which did not include photography, but where we very much look forward to see your uploaded photos as part of your recipe reviews.

• Mark Bittman’s The Best Recipes in the World 

• Escoffier’s Le Guide Culinaire

• Leah Chase’s The Dooky Chase Cookbook

• Carmen Aboy Valldejuli’s Puerto Rican Cooking

• Patience Gray’s Honey from a Weed

• Farm Journal’s Complete Pie Cookbook

• Katie Stewart’s The Times Cookery Book

• Elizabeth Ortiz’s Complete Book of Caribbean Cooking

• Mrs. Chiang’s Szechwan Cookbook

3. Win a ckbk apron and a year’s free access to ckbk!

We’re looking forward to seeing your recipe review photos, and to celebrate the launch of this new feature we are running a competition For a chance to win, just submit a recipe review including a photo, before midnight on 31 December 2024. The best photo, as judged by ckbk’s editors, will win a year’s free ckbk Premium Membership and one of our exclusive ckbk aprons. So what are you waiting for? Get cooking… and snapping!

Have any questions, or ideas for other features you would like to see added to ckbk? Let us know! Also don’t forget that if you run into any challenges while cooking, you can always post to the Kitchen SOS chat in our Facebook group, #ckbkclub.

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