How to Save Recipes From TikTok, Instagram and Facebook (The Complete Guide)

You are scrolling, a chilli garlic noodle video stops you cold, and you think "I am making that this week." Three weeks later you are standing in the kitchen scrolling through 400 saved videos trying to remember which one it was.

Every big app has a save button. None of them were built for cooking. This guide covers the built-in way to save recipes on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, where each one falls short, and a setup that gets you from "ooh" to "dinner" without pausing a video 14 times.

How to save recipes on TikTok

TikTok's save feature is called Favorites.

1. Open the cooking video.
2. Tap the bookmark icon on the right-hand side, under the comments icon.
3. To organise, tap Add to collection in the pop-up and pick or create a collection like "Dinners".

Find them later in Profile → the bookmark tab → Videos or Collections.

Where it falls short: the recipe still lives inside a video. Amounts are spoken once, flashed on screen for a second or buried in a caption, and you scrub back and forth with greasy fingers to catch them.

How to save recipes on Instagram

Instagram calls it Saved, and it works for Reels and regular posts.

1. Tap the bookmark icon under the Reel or post.
2. Tap Save to collection to file it somewhere specific.

Find them in Profile → menu (☰) → Saved.

Where it falls short: many creators put the full recipe in the caption, which is cut off and hard to read while cooking. Others say "recipe in my bio", which sends you to a blog full of ads.

How to save recipes on Facebook

1. Tap the three dots (•••) on the video or post.
2. Choose Save video or Save post.
3. Optionally add it to a collection.

Find them under Menu → Saved.

Where it falls short: Facebook's Saved list mixes recipes with everything else you have ever saved, and recipes shared in groups can vanish when a post is removed.

Why saving the video is not the same as saving the recipe

All three apps save a pointer to a video, not the recipe itself. That causes the same problems every time:

The better way: turn the reel into a real recipe

The fix is to get the recipe out of the video and into one place where it is written down. You can type it out yourself, or let an app do it.

This is exactly what Nasi was built for:

1. In TikTok, Instagram or Facebook, tap Share on the cooking video.
2. Pick Nasi in the share sheet. That is it, and you can keep scrolling.
3. Nasi watches the video, listens to what the creator says and reads the caption. It writes out the ingredients with amounts, numbered steps, servings and cook time.
4. The recipe lands in your cookbook with a link back to the original post.

Vague amounts like "a splash of soy" or "two big spoons" get turned into sensible measurements. Give the list a quick look before you cook and adjust anything you like.

Once it is a real recipe you can scale the servings, add the ingredients to your shopping list, drop it into your meal plan and cook it hands-free.

Tips for a recipe collection you will actually use

• Save with intent. If you would not cook it in the next month, skip it. A smaller collection gets cooked.
• Sort by when you cook, not by cuisine. Cookbooks like "Weeknight wins", "Date night" and "Weekend projects" are easier to pick from on a Tuesday.
• Cook it within a week. Plan it the day you save it so it does not get buried.
• Keep the source. Creators deserve the credit, and the original video is handy for technique.