About Xefy

Xefy gives every dish one page and derives every figure on it from structured data. Change the serving count and the quantities move with it; switch to US customary and the temperatures and dimensions in the method text change too. Nothing is typed into prose by hand, so nothing on a page can drift out of step with anything else on it.

The scaling is arithmetic rather than a multiplier printed beside a string. Amounts are held in grams and millilitres and converted once, at the end, so nothing accumulates rounding on the way, and a count like two egg yolks carries its exact weight beside it. Nutrition is computed from USDA records for the ingredients actually listed: the per-serving figures hold steady when you move the stepper, because that is what per serving means, while the totals move with it.

Timing comes from the method too. Prep, cook and total are derived from the steps rather than declared over them, and the cook-back timeline turns them into clock times: say when you want to eat, or when you are starting, and it tells you when each step begins. Steps tick off as you go, and the page prints as a sheet worth taking to the kitchen.

Past a single dish, a weekly plan holds what you intend to cook and the shopping list adds it up across every dish on it, merging the same ingredient wherever it appears and converting once at the end. What can I make runs the other way: tick what is already in the kitchen and dishes are ranked by how close you are, each one naming exactly what is missing. Search reaches alternate and regional names, not just the title on the page.

It is free, with no accounts, no advertising and nothing to subscribe to. Whatever it remembers, such as your plan, your units and your theme, stays in your own browser. Nutrition comes from USDA FoodData Central, and the photography from Wikimedia Commons and Open Food Facts, each image credited on the image credits page.

The code and the writing are published under the KFA Source-Available License 1.0, so anyone can read how a figure is worked out rather than take it on trust. The photographs are not covered by it: each stays under the licence its author chose, and none of them is generated. An image model will plate a dish no cook would recognise, and a reference that checks its own arithmetic should not guess at what the food looks like.