How to Read a Recipe Hands-Free While You Cook

You are mid-recipe, hands covered in flour, and the screen goes dark. You tap it with a knuckle, lose your place in the wall of ads, and try to remember whether that was the second or third cup of flour. Cooking from a phone or laptop should not be this hard. Here is how to cook hands-free.

The three problems with cooking off a website

• The screen sleeps. You stop touching it to actually cook, and it goes dark right when you need the next step.
• You lose your place. Ads, popups, and a long intro mean you are constantly scrolling to find where you were.
• Timers live somewhere else. "Simmer for 12 minutes" means grabbing your phone, opening a timer app, and typing, with dough on your hands.

Set up a real cook mode

The fix is a clean recipe plus a mode built for the counter, not the couch.

Add Gratly to Chrome for free. Save any recipe with one click, then open cook mode. It keeps your screen awake the whole time you cook, lays out the steps big and clean with no ads to scroll past, and turns each timed step into a tap-to-start timer so you never touch a separate app. Change the servings and every quantity recalculates on the spot.

It works on recipes from anywhere

Cook mode is not tied to one site. Save from any recipe blog, or turn a cooking video into a written recipe first. See how to save a recipe from any website and how to save recipes from TikTok and Instagram.

Cook with your hands, not your screen

Keep the screen on, the steps clear, and the timers one tap away. Add Gratly to Chrome for free and cook hands-free from any recipe. Related: how to scale a recipe up or down.