Facebook is where recipes play hide-and-seek. The video shows the dish, the caption says “Full recipe in the first comment”, the comment holds a link, the link goes through Facebook’s redirect to a page that buries the recipe three scrolls down. People cook from these posts every day — by piecing it together themselves.
Sorrel now does the piecing for you.
The recipe in the comments
Facebook only shows a post’s comments to people who are signed in. When that’s where the recipe lives, Sorrel asks — once, politely — whether you’d like to log in to Facebook. You sign in on Facebook’s own page; your login stays on your phone, and Sorrel never sees your password. From then on, every post’s comments are read automatically.
Following the creator’s link, wherever it leads
A “full recipe” link in a comment is rarely a straight line. Facebook wraps it in a redirect. Some sites answer with their own search results instead of the recipe. Some pages publish the recipe as plain text with no structure a machine would recognise. Sorrel walks the whole path — unwraps the redirect, picks the right result by the dish’s name, and reads the page even when it has no recipe markup — and your import ends as it should: a clean recipe with the real title, the reel’s photo, and every ingredient and step.
What it refuses to get wrong
Reading comments means reading everything people write there, and most of it isn’t the recipe. Sorrel now knows the difference:
- A reader’s remix — “I make mine with 18 eggs and crescent rolls” — is never saved as the creator’s recipe.
- A reply that mentions “2 cups” in passing isn’t an ingredient list.
- The recipe is titled after the dish, not after the page that posted it.
And when a recipe genuinely can’t be read — the creator only sends it by message, or the link leads to a collection — Sorrel says so plainly and hands you the link, instead of saving half a guess.
Where this is today
Posts and pages import free, like any website. Reels and videos import through Sorrel Pro, like every video source. The improvements above are rolling out on iPhone now, and the same work reaches Android next.
