Recipe websites are notoriously cluttered — ads between every paragraph, pop-ups, life stories before the ingredients. Pretty PDF extracts just the recipe and formats it into a clean, printable PDF you can use in the kitchen.
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You searched for "chicken tikka masala recipe." You found one that looks good. But between the ingredient list and the instructions, there are six display ads, a 2,000-word personal story, a newsletter signup popup, video autoplay, a cookie consent banner, and a "related recipes" sidebar. You just want the recipe.
Recipe sites rely heavily on ad revenue, which means ads are inserted between paragraphs, inside ingredient lists, and next to every instruction step. When you print the page, all of those ads come with it, wasting paper and ink on content you never wanted.
Before you reach the actual recipe, you scroll through a 2,000-word personal essay about the author's trip to Mumbai, their grandmother's kitchen, and why this dish changed their life. SEO-driven content padding pushes the recipe you came for far down the page.
Newsletter signup modals, cookie consent banners, "download our app" prompts, and video players that follow you as you scroll. These elements clutter browser print output and often appear in the middle of your PDF.
Related recipes, social sharing buttons, comment sections, and site navigation all get pulled into browser PDF output. What should be a one-page recipe turns into an 8-page document full of irrelevant content.
Pretty PDF's article extraction cuts through all of it. The extraction engine identifies the recipe content — title, ingredients, instructions, and recipe photos — and strips away everything else before generating your PDF.
Five steps from cluttered recipe page to clean, printable PDF. The entire process takes about 30 seconds.
Open the recipe you want to save in Chrome. It can be from any recipe website — AllRecipes, Food Network, Epicurious, Bon Appetit, food blogs, or any other site with recipe content.
Click the Pretty PDF Printer icon in your Chrome toolbar to open the extension popup. It will display the page title and your conversion options. If the icon is hidden, click the puzzle piece in Chrome's toolbar and pin Pretty PDF for quick access.
Article mode is the default, and it is ideal for recipes. The extraction engine identifies the recipe content — title, ingredient list, and instructions — and strips away ads, stories, pop-ups, navigation, and sidebar clutter automatically.
Select a template for your PDF. Clean and Minimal work great for recipes. Clean gives an editorial look that is good for saving to your collection. Minimal is ultra-simple and great for printing and taping to the fridge.
Hit the Generate button and get a clean PDF with just the recipe title, ingredients, and instructions. Any recipe photos are preserved. The result downloads automatically — a printable document you can use in the kitchen.
The difference between browser print and Pretty PDF is dramatic for recipe pages.
Printing a recipe page via your browser produces 8 or more pages. The output includes every display ad, the full personal story, comment section, sidebar with related recipes, navigation menus, and cookie consent banners. The actual recipe — ingredients and instructions — is buried somewhere in the middle.
Pretty PDF produces 1-2 pages containing just the recipe title, ingredient list, step-by-step instructions, and any recipe photos. No ads, no story, no comments, no sidebar, no navigation. Page count drops by 75-80%, and you get a document that is actually useful in the kitchen.
Not every template suits every use case. Here is how each one works for recipe PDFs.
Editorial look with refined typography. Good for saving recipes to your personal collection or sharing with friends. Recipes look polished and intentional, like pages from a cookbook.
Ultra-simple layout with maximum whitespace. Great for printing and taping to the fridge or propping up on the counter. Uses the least ink of any template, making it the most economical choice for recipes you print frequently.
Dark background with light text. Good for reading recipes on a tablet or phone screen while cooking. Reduces glare in bright kitchen lighting and saves battery on OLED screens. Not ideal for printing on paper.
Corporate and Academic templates are not ideal for recipes — Corporate is too formal with its business-oriented styling, and Academic is designed for research papers with citation formatting that does not suit cooking content. Stick with Clean or Minimal for printed recipes, and Dark for screen reading while cooking.
Use Selection mode if the extraction captures too much. If Article mode pulls in the life story or sidebar content along with the recipe, switch to Selection mode. Highlight just the recipe card or the ingredients-and-instructions section, and Pretty PDF will convert only that selected content into your PDF.
Save recipes to your cloud library organized by cuisine type. Create folders for Italian, Mexican, Indian, Asian, and other cuisine categories. When you want to cook something specific, browse your organized collection instead of searching the web again and fighting through the same ads.
Print on half-letter size for a recipe card feel. In your PDF viewer's print settings, select half-letter (5.5 x 8.5 inches) for a compact recipe card that takes up less counter space. The Minimal template works especially well at this smaller size.
Use the Minimal template for the most ink-efficient printing. Minimal uses the least ink of any template. If you print recipes regularly, this adds up to meaningful savings on ink and toner over time. The clean layout also makes recipes easy to read at a glance while cooking.
Save your favorite recipes to the Pretty PDF cloud library and build a personal digital cookbook over time. Every recipe you generate is stored in your account, ready to access from any device.
Create folders by cuisine, meal type, or season. Keep your weeknight dinners separate from holiday baking projects. Organize quick meals for busy evenings and elaborate dishes for weekend cooking.
Full-text search lets you find that "chicken tikka" recipe months later without remembering which website it came from. Search by ingredient, dish name, or any keyword that appears in the recipe content.
Share individual recipes as PDF links with friends and family. When someone asks for that recipe you made last weekend, send them a clean PDF link instead of directing them to an ad-laden website. They get just the recipe, beautifully formatted and ready to use.
No more ads, pop-ups, or life stories. Just the recipe — ingredients, instructions, and photos in a beautiful format.
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