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- 400g chicken thigh
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
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01Recipes
Add. Cook. Edit. Repeat.
Type it in. Paste a URL. Photograph a cookbook page or a handwritten card. Roux pulls out the ingredients and steps, drops the life-story preamble, and shows each ingredient inline with the step that uses it. No scrolling back to check how much butter.
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To really follow a recipe, you can’t follow the recipe.
Your shrimp may be bigger or drier or saltier than mine. You have to taste and adjust to get the same result. But practically, I think people should do the recipe at least once the way it was written before trying to change it.
02Ratios
Sometimes all you need isa ratio.
1 fat to 1 flour makes a roux. 3 oil to 1 vinegar makes vinaigrette. Once you know the ratio, you don't need the recipe. Roux saves them as their own kind of thing, sitting in your library alongside your recipes.
A few ratios worth knowing.
Roux
parts
3Flour
parts
2Fat
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Sauce base
- 3partsFlour
- 2partsFat
04Notebooks
Recipes make a meal.Notebooks store everything else.
Your sourdough starter feeding schedule. Hot sauce ferment timelines. The beans you'd buy again. Notebooks store the stuff between recipes.
Asian groceries
5 notes
Fermentation station
12 notes
Espresso notes
8 notes
The Sous Chef in your pocket.
Roux opens in any browser. Paste a recipe, scale it, plan a menu, cook.
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The things we've skipped.
What we left out matters as much as what we built.
No ads.
No banners, no pop-ups, no “you might also like” list pretending to be content. Just the recipe in front of you, nothing fighting for your attention.
No ratings.
No star ratings on your saved recipes. If it's in your collection, you already trust it. That's all the rating you need.
No stories.
No three-paragraph life story before the recipe. Just the method, on its own. Add a note if you want one.
No account wall.
Open Roux and start using it. No account needed on one device. Add an email when you want your recipes everywhere.
And now for the bill
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Your receipt
- Your recipes£0.00
- Menus & shopping lists£0.00
- Ratios & Notebooks£0.00
- Sync across devices£0.00
- Export anytime£0.00
Total£0.00
The questions we keepgetting asked.
01Can I import recipes I already have?
Paste a URL, drop in a photo, or type it out. Roux pulls out the ingredients and method and leaves the ads and the life story behind.
02Can I export everything if I leave?
Yes. Your recipes, menus, and notebooks export as plain text or JSON at any time, from Settings. No vendor lock-in, no "premium" export tier.
03Does Roux work offline?
Yes. Roux caches the recipes you've opened recently so you can cook in a patchy kitchen or meal plan while on the tube. Edits sync the next time you're online.
04Is there an iOS or Android app?
No app to download. Roux opens in any browser on any phone, tablet, or computer. No install, no updates to babysit. Save it to your home screen for one-tap access.
05Can I share a menu with someone who doesn't use Roux?
Yes. Every menu and recipe has a shareable link that opens read-only for anyone, no account needed. Great for handing the Christmas menu to whoever's helping.
If they have a Roux account, they can add it to their own collection in a tap.
06Will Roux stay free?
Everything you've seen on this page is free today, for everyone, and that's the plan. If we ever do add paid features, they'll be additive. Nothing you already use will get paywalled.
07What do you do with my data?
Short answer: nothing weird. We don't sell it, we don't run ads, and we don't train models on your cooking.
That's the whole thing.
Roux opens in any browser, on any device. No install. Sign in only when you want your recipes everywhere.