How to Print a Recipe Without the Ads or the Life Story

You want a clean printout to stick on the fridge. You hit print and the preview is ten pages: banner ads, a photo of the author's grandmother, three "you might also like" grids, and somewhere in there, the recipe. Here is how to print just the recipe, on one page, without the mess.

Why recipe pages print so badly

Most recipe blogs are built for scrolling and ads, not for paper. When you print, everything on the page comes along: the sidebar, the popups, the comments, the long intro. Even the site's own print button often keeps the ads or drops the photo you wanted.

The goal is to get down to just the ingredients and steps before you print.

The clean way to print

Instead of fighting the print preview, clean the page first, then print.

Add Gratly to Chrome for free. On any recipe page, click Gratly once and it removes the ads, popups, and the story, leaving a clean recipe: title, ingredients, steps, times, and the photo. Print from there and you get a tidy, one-look page with none of the clutter.

Because the recipe is saved to your collection, you can also reprint it any time without hunting the blog down again, and it prints the same way every time.

Bonus: skip printing entirely

If the printout was really about cooking from the counter, you may not need paper at all. Gratly's cook mode keeps your screen awake, scales the servings, and turns steps like "simmer for 12 minutes" into a tap-to-start timer. See how to read a recipe hands-free while you cook.

Print clean, every time

Stop wasting paper on ads. Add Gratly to Chrome for free and print, or cook from, just the recipe. Related: how to remove ads from recipe websites.