Zap Cooking

We built a new food experience on Nostr, and I’m excited to share it with you. 🔥

Thank you to everyone who pushed me to make discovery better. Your feedback helped get us here. Now we have Fresh, a curated food and drink feed, and our own custom relay:

wss://feed.zap.cooking

🆓 Everyone gets the last 14 days of posts and every recipe, all the way back.

⚡ Members get the full history of 40,000+ food posts and custom topic feeds. Meat, cheese, drinks, Japanese food, canning, preserving, and yes… pickles. 🥒

It’s soup season. I love soup. So of course we have a soup feed too.

Use it on zap.cooking or bring the relay into your favorite Nostr app. Fresh is live on the web, with mobile coming soon.

Membership is $4.99 a month and also includes Cheffy, who can help identify a dish and give you a recipe to try yourself.

Discover something good. Make it. Share it. Zap the person who inspired you. That’s the kind of food community we’re building together.

Thank you for supporting us and sharing this journey with me. I love you, Nostr.

https://zap.cooking/feed

#foodstr #zapcooking #nostr

Vanilla cake with strawberries 🍓🍰

Soft vanilla sponge meets fresh, juicy strawberries. Simple, bright, and hard to beat as the weather turns and you want one last taste of summer.

Full recipe 👇

https://zap.cooking/s/x4wl1k

#foodstr #baking #cake #dessert #zapcooking

Ever wonder what the Zap Cooking team is actually cooking? 🍳⚡

We built a live Proof of Work page:

zap.cooking/pow

Every pull request we've merged in 2026, across web, Android, and iOS:

🔥 A heat map of every day we shipped 📈 Monthly progress, PRs, and lines of code 🧑‍🍳 Who's building it ⚡ Updates live: merge a PR, and it shows up within a minute

So far this year: nearly 1,000 PRs merged and 440k+ lines of code written.

Small team, building in the open on Nostr and Bitcoin.

Like what you see? Zap the kitchen: [email protected]

#zapcooking #foodstr #nostr #buildinpublic #proofofwork

When in doubt, post food.

🇺🇸 Happy 250!

Download the Zap Cooking Android beta, post your food pics, and tag

We’ll be sending ⚡ zaps to some of our favorite posts throughout the day.

Celebrate food. Celebrate Bitcoin. Celebrate freedom.

https://zapstore.dev/apps/cooking.zap.app

We know a friend… 🍳⚡️

⚡ It’s time.

The Zap Cooking Android Beta is live.

From day one, Zap Cooking has been built as a Nostr-native app with one goal: make freedom tech useful through food.

Discover recipes, share what you’re cooking, earn Bitcoin, and support creators directly with zaps.

This is a beta, so expect a few rough edges. We need the Nostr builders, plebs, and bug hunters to put it through its paces. Break it. Report it. Help us make it better.

Download it now on

:

https://zapstore.dev/apps/cooking.zap.app

Fire it up, post what you’re cooking this Fourth of July, tag

in the app, and you might get a fat zap. ⚡🌭🍔

Thank you to everyone who has helped us build this over the last three years. This is only the beginning.

Stay hungry. 🍳

Home is where the 🔥 is.

🚨 New recipe pack just dropped 👀

One of the most underrated features on Zap Cooking.

Build your own recipe packs, save your favorite recipes, and export them as a clean, formatted PDF to print, save, or keep in the kitchen.

No ads. No clutter. Just your recipes, organized the way they should be.

Built for food culture 🍳⚡️

Food culture is humanity’s original open source project.

Find your next meal on Zap Cooking 🍳 ⚡️

https://zap.cooking/recipes

Meet Cheffy. Your kitchen partner.

Cheffy understands the assignment. He is helpful, practical, and built specifically for Zap Cooking.

Ask him what to make, tell him what ingredients you have, swap an ingredient, work through a recipe, or get help when you do not feel like turning dinner into a whole project.

He can also take a recipe and convert it into a Zap Cooking recipe post, ready to publish or save in your drafts for later.

He is here to help you cook, not lecture you about it.

Cheffy is live now on Zap Cooking.

Give it a try.

Enjoy 50% off memberships by using the code NOSTRSUMMER

Hungry?

Not for another social network.

For better recipes. Better food. Better conversations.

Share a recipe. Discover something new. Support creators directly with Bitcoin.

No ads chasing you around the internet.

Just food culture.

⚡️ zap.cooking

#Foodstr #Bitcoin #Nostr #FoodCulture #ZapCooking

Zap Cooking is a Nostr original.

We are not funded by OpenSats, Jack Dorsey, HRF, or Tether. We have received zero grant money.

This has been a self-funded experiment from day one, built by people who believe recipes belong on the open web.

We build features the community asks for. We’ve had dozens of contributors. We lean into our open source ethos.

Zap Cooking is the original “other stuff.”

Membership gives you access to our tools, including Chef ₿, Nourish, and Sous Chef for seamless recipe uploads.

And summer is the perfect time to jump in — backyard meals, family recipes, fresh produce, weekend cookouts, and recipes worth sharing.

For the next 21 days, use code NOSTRSUMMER for 50% off monthly or annual memberships.

This promo is for Lightning payment only.

We believe in Bitcoin and Nostr, and we are putting the incentives in place to help you send your sats.

Don’t HODL. ZAP.

Come support us.

🍳⚡ zap.cooking

Most apps are chasing influencers. We’re recruiting grandmas. 🍲

Seriously.

We want your mom, your aunt, your grandfather with the secret chili recipe, the neighbor who still writes recipes on index cards.

That’s the goal.

Zap Cooking should feel like the natural place on the internet to share recipes, cooking stories, family traditions and food culture.

Not because it’s “bitcoin.” Not because it’s “tech.” Because it’s genuinely better.

We’re building:

• beautiful recipe pages
• AI recipe importing from links, photos and handwritten cards
• built in payments and memberships
• community groups and chats
• longform food blogging
• open social profiles
• no ads spying on you
• no algorithm fighting for attention
• no platform lock in

And the wild part?

Most people using it won’t even need to know what Nostr is.

That’s how freedom tech wins. Not through ideology alone. Through better products.

We are normalizing open protocols, ownership, interoperability and value for value by making something people actually want to use.

The future should not belong to closed platforms and surveillance feeds.

It should belong to communities. Recipes. Families. Creators. Real people.

Stay hungry. 🍳

Boost your recipe to the top of Zap Cooking ⚡🍳

Launching a new dish? Running a special? Want more eyeballs on your recipe?

Use Boosts.

Choose your duration. Send sats. Your recipe gets priority placement across the platform.

24 hours ⚡ 7 days ⚡ 30 days ⚡

Simple, transparent promotion built natively on Nostr and Lightning.

No ad account managers. No surveillance targeting. No complicated campaigns.

Just food, community, and value-for-value visibility.

Most platforms built an ad model around surveillance.

Track users. Sell attention. Harvest data. Inject algorithms. Keep creators dependent.

Zap Cooking is different.

We’re building an open marketplace around value-for-value, memberships, sponsorships, boosts, and direct community support on Nostr.

No creepy ad targeting. No shadow banning. No selling your data. No middlemen owning your audience.

Sponsors are transparent. Boosts are visible. Payments are native. Communities are portable.

A restaurant, ranch, coffee roaster, or kitchen brand should be able to support creators directly without turning users into the product.

That’s the model.

Food + community + open protocols. Stay hungry ⚡🍳

Soooo many good submissions. 🍕⚡

Help us choose the winners.

Scoring is based on engagement directly on the pizza note you are voting for:

🔁 Renote = 5 points 💬 Comment = 5 points ❤️ Like = 1 point ⚡ Every 10 sats zapped to the note = 1 point

We’ll total the scores tomorrow and select 10 winners to receive 10,000 sats each.

Food. Bitcoin. Open protocols.

Stay hungry. 🍕⚡

🍕⚡ Bitcoin Pizza Day Giveaway ⚡🍕

Bitcoin was once used to buy two pizzas. Now we’re using it to celebrate food, community, and the open web.

To celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day, we’re giving away:

⚡ 10 prizes of 10,000 sats each ⚡

How to enter:

🍕 Post your pizza ⚡ Tag Zap Cooking 🧱 Share a Bitcoin, Nostr, food, or freedom-tech take 🔥 Memes, homemade pizza, bad pizza, elite pizza — all welcome

We’ll pick 10 posts and zap each winner 10k sats.

Proof of cook. Value for value. Stay hungry. 🍕⚡

Find the hidden Easter egg Tag us, feast on sats ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Zappy is leveling up. 👨‍🍳⚡

What started as a fun AI recipe tool is evolving into something much bigger. We’re upgrading Zappy into Chef B — a smarter, more capable kitchen companion built directly into the Zap Cooking ecosystem.

This is the fun part of building in the open. You ship. You learn. You improve. Then you keep building.

Every week we’re tightening workflows, improving UX, refining outputs, and connecting more pieces of the stack together: ⚡ Bitcoin 🤖 AI 🍳 Food 🌎 Open protocols

Small improvements compound over time. Kaizen.

We’re still early, but the direction is becoming more obvious every day. Stay hungry

Zap Cooking is growing because of the people supporting it. 🍳⚡️

Every membership helps us continue building: • Better AI tools like Sous Chef & Zappy • Lightning-native experiences • Recipe packs & cookbook exports • Marketplace + creator tools • Better relays, groups, polls, and community features • A food platform built on the open web, not controlled by ads or algorithms

When you become a member, you’re not just unlocking features. You’re helping prove a different kind of internet can exist.

No invasive ads. No spyware. No fighting algorithms for visibility.

Just food, community, Bitcoin, and building in the open.

If you believe in what we’re building, now’s the time to join us. ❤️

https://zap.cooking/membership

Stay hungry. 🍽️⚡️

🥤🍿

🔥 The internet taught you to scroll. 🍳 We’re here to teach you to cook.

Zap Cooking isn’t just recipes. It’s your kitchen, your identity, your money — all in one place.

No noise. No algorithms telling you what to eat.

Just real food, real people, and tools that actually help:

📸 Snap a recipe → formatted instantly 🔗 Paste a link → clean, usable recipe 🤖 Don’t know what to cook? Zappy’s got you 🥗 Want better food? Nourish scores it

And when you make something great?

You don’t just post it… You own it. You share it. You earn from it (money).

This is what food on the open web looks like.

Stay hungry. 🍽️⚡️

Cook once. Share everywhere.

You can now export your recipe packs on Zap Cooking as a clean, printable PDF cookbook. 📚

Your recipes, your format, all in one place. Ready to send to friends, family, or keep on your counter while you cook.

We’re opening it up for you to try. Use code FREEPACK and export your first cookbook today.

Build your pack. Export it. Share it.

Stay hungry 🍳⚡️

Check out this recipe pack from

🤗👇

https://zap.cooking/s/ht3vup

Did you know Zap Cooking was one of the first Nostr clients to implement the Breez SDK wallet?

That same wallet stack powers apps like Primal, Wisp, Blitz, and Wallet of Satoshi.

On Zap Cooking, you can seamlessly import your existing wallet and get started instantly. Once you're in, you can take it a step further with built-in redundancy by backing up your wallet to Nostr relays.

One click backup. One click restore.

Simple, secure, and built for the future.

This is just one of many features that puts Zap Cooking in a league of its own. 🍳⚡️

Happy Easter, from your friends at Zap Cooking 🍳 ⚡️ 🐣

Unsalted sunflower seeds 🌻 7/10 #nourish

A solid real food snack. Simple ingredients, healthy fats, and a good crunch.

Nourish is a members-only feature on Zap Cooking that gives you quick, honest insight into your food.

Food. Friends. Freedom.

Palm Sunday 🌿

A time to reflect, prepare, and look ahead to Easter dinner.

Holy Week is a pause before a new season. Slowing down. Gathering. Getting ready. ✨

We’re thinking about the meals that bring people together. 🍽️

Share your Easter recipes with us. 🐣 #foodstr

https://zap.cooking

Our friends at Bread & Toast are building something fun and original. 🥖🔥

Whimsical characters, comics, and stories from Bread, Toast, and End-Piece… all from one loaf, each with their own path. They publish their work on Nostr first, which makes them feel right at home in this corner of the open web. 

Go check them out at Bread & Toast: https://breadandtoast.com Give them a follow.👇

Good food. Good art. Good people.

Stay hungry 🍳

The best meal hack? Plan it before you're hungry. Future you will thank present you.

Our friends at

are helping keep the network secure in a way that actually matters.

Bitcoin is irreversible. Once you hit send, it’s gone. That’s where Branta comes in.

They provide real-time payment verification so you can confirm that the address you’re sending to is exactly where it should be—protecting against phishing, address swaps, and man-in-the-middle attacks. 

On Zap Cooking, this shows up as a simple, clean UI moment before you send. No friction, just clarity.

For those moving sats every day, this is one of those features you don’t notice… until it saves you.

Built together with Branta 🤝 Adding a trust layer to the zap code.

Stay hungry.

Polls are live on Zap Cooking ⚡️

We’ve been building out a new way to interact around nostr:

⚡ Zap Polls — vote with sats 🖼️ Image Polls — visual “this vs that” decisions 🧠 Poll Feed — a live stream of what people are thinking

Jump into the feed: https://zap.cooking/polls

Create them. Share them. See results instantly.

Stay Hungry. Keep Building.

23 hours remain

Pineapple strong 🍍

Staring into the fridge like the answer will appear. Spoiler: it won't. But zap.cooking has a few ideas 🍳⚡️

Pineapple haters in disbelief 🫢

Choose your weiner 🌭

Nourish v2 has shipped Added an overall score and take a pic or upload any image and get a nourish score 🌱

Shoutout to our friends at

🍞⚡️

They’re building a wild, creative comic world on Nostr, bringing stories and art to life one drop at a time.

Go check them out 👇

https://breadandtoast.com

Image polls make nostr fun again. Tell your dev to add support

Image polls are live on https://zap.cooking

Give us your best and we will zap fattys ⚡️

February 17th was launch day. Today marks one month of Zap Cooking memberships. To everyone who became a member in these early weeks: you're not customers. You're co-builders. Your feedback shapes this. Your participation makes it real. Value-for-value in practice. Thank you for showing up. 🍳⚡️

Newsletter delayed one day. Building did not stop.

We added the GIF button. We added polls. We’re making Nostr more fun, one feature at a time.

Make Nostr fun again 🍳⚡️

Our Sous Chef dices this recipe up from All Recipes dot com and has it ready for Zap Cooking in under 30 seconds.

Fiber doesn't get the hype it deserves. It's not sexy. It's not trending. But it keeps everything running. Beans, oats, vegetables — the basics work.

We added the GIF button ✅

No VC money. No corporate sponsors. Just cooks sharing recipes and getting zapped directly. Grassroots isn't a marketing angle—it's how we're built.

Started in a kitchen, built by people who cook. No boardroom decided this should exist. Just creators, eaters, and Lightning payments flowing directly between them. That's grassroots.

Recipe sites hide the good stuff under life stories. We just give you the recipe and let you zap the cook if it's worth it. Simple.

Fish fry season is here. 🐟Every Friday during Lent, the question is the same: what's the best thing on the menu? Fried cod, walleye, mac and cheese on the side? Tell me your go-to. 👇

69% off sponsor slots. Nice. But also real — we're building Zap Cooking with support from people who get it. Join the party 🥳

https://zap.cooking/sponsors

Please support our sponsor

who provides delicious and nutritious HODL butter and other great products.

Ever notice how the simplest ingredients make the best food? Salt, butter, garlic. That's it. That's the formula.

Ready to cook smarter? Zap Cooking membership gives you Zappy AI for personalized help, Sous Chef to turn any food photo into a recipe, and the ability to monetize your own recipes with Lightning. Check it out at zap.cooking/membership

Weekend starts in the kitchen. What are you cooking?

Zappy sits there waiting. "got leftover chicken?" ask it. "what pairs with this wine?" ask it. built right into the kitchen. Not trying to sell you stuff, just helping you cook. That's what a tool should do - disappear until you need it ⚡️🍳

Most cooking apps want your attention. Zap Cooking membership wants you to actually cook. Zappy, premium recipes, zero distractions. Join: zap.cooking/membership

Recipes you actually cook > recipes you save for later. zap.cooking tracks both.

The recipes worth keeping aren't the ones with SEO. They're the ones someone actually cooked and vouched for. That's the difference 🍳

I don’t think everyone realizes how good Zap Cooking has gotten over the last few months.

Between

and me (

), we’ve burned a serious amount of tokens building. And it shows.

We shipped one of the best wallets in the space powered by Breez SDK. (That was all Daniel, thank you 🫂). Real self custody. No games.

We also layered in

for enhanced security (yes, we do onchain in the wallet ans well) Extra verification. Extra protection. If we are going to encourage people to hold their own keys, we better take security seriously.

We built one of the best long form editors and readers on Nostr. Clean. Fast. Actually enjoyable to use.

We rolled out group messaging. Integrated custom AI tools for members. Added two more custom relays. Built out a full social curation layer for food related topics.

Behind the scenes we pushed performance upgrades, UX refinements, and steady improvements across the app.

Engagement is up. Unique visitors are up. People are showing up from around the globe.

We are building in the open. Iterating fast. Learning. Fixing. Improving. Kaizen, always.

Food. Friends. Freedom. 🍳⚡️

Proud of how far we’ve come. And we are just getting started.

Limited drop: Sign up for membership in the next 3 spots, get a Zap Cooking t-shirt on us. Move fast. 🍳

Lifetime membership means exactly that. Pay once, access everything. Zappy AI, Sous Chef, Lightning Gated Recipes, plus all the new features we build. No renewals, no fine print.

zap.cooking/membership

Cooking doesn't need to be complicated. Start with something simple. Make it yours. That's the whole game.

Skip breakfast or make it count. There's no middle ground. Either you're feeding yourself or you're just filling time before lunch.

Wild concept: what if recipe sites just gave you the recipe? No novel. No SEO filler. No grandma's childhood in the old country. Just food. That's zap.cooking.

We made some improvements this weekend 🍳⚡️

🔐 Backup + Security Enhancements Encrypted backup/restore for follows + mute lists. Clearer wallet backup status. Safer signer disconnect flow for NIP-07 / NIP-46 users.

🖨 Customizable Print Recipes New print modal with section toggles (photo, summary, ingredients, directions, notes, tags), live preview, and paper-friendly formatting. Multi-phase directions now number correctly.

🚀 Major Feed Speed Improvements Faster startup. Faster scrolling. Smarter caching. We deferred background services, reduced heavy DOM loads, and tightened up caching. It should feel noticeably snappier.

👥 Group Chat Upgrades (NIP-29) Unread badges across navigation. Invite-only access controls. Searchable “Add Member” (name / npub / NIP-05) with avatars and keyboard navigation. Clean invite links with proper landing pages. Fixed stale invite issues.

Building. Improving. Kaizen. ⚡️

Zappy 🤖

INPUT: I want to make a soup using kluski noodles, canned beef, and beef broth. Please create a unique, flavorful recipe, not a standard beef noodle soup. Add interesting twists or ingredients that elevate the flavor while still being realistic for a home kitchen. I also have potatoes available if they would improve the dish.

OUTPUT: # Hearty Beef and Kluski Noodle Soup with Roasted Garlic and Herbs

A comforting, rustic soup that takes your basic beef noodle soup to the next level with roasted garlic, fresh herbs, and tender potatoes for extra heartiness.

Time

• Prep: 15 minutes
• Cook: 35 minutes
• Total: 50 minutes

Servings

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 can beef (about 12 oz)
• 6 cups beef broth
• 2 cups kluski noodles
• 2 medium potatoes, peeled and diced
• 1 head garlic
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 medium onion, finely chopped
• 2 celery stalks, diced
• 1 carrot, diced
• 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme (or 1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves)
• 1 bay leaf
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Fresh parsley, chopped (for garnish)
• Optional: splash of Worcestershire sauce or soy sauce for umami depth

Steps

1. Preheat your oven to 400°F (200°C). Slice the top off the garlic head, drizzle with olive oil, wrap in foil, and roast for about 25 minutes until soft and caramelized.
2. While the garlic roasts, heat a tablespoon of olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add the chopped onion, celery, and carrot. Sauté until softened and fragrant, about 5-7 minutes.
3. Add the smoked paprika, thyme, bay leaf, and a pinch of salt and pepper to the vegetables. Stir for a minute to bloom the spices.
4. Add the beef broth, diced potatoes, and canned beef (including juices). Bring to a gentle boil, then reduce heat to a simmer.
5. Squeeze the roasted garlic cloves from their skins and mash them into a paste. Stir this into the simmering soup.
6. Let the soup simmer gently for about 20 minutes, until potatoes are just tender.
7. Add the kluski noodles and cook until tender, usually about 5-7 minutes (check package instructions).
8. Taste and adjust seasoning with salt, pepper, and if you like, a splash of Worcestershire or soy sauce for extra savory depth.
9. Remove the bay leaf. Ladle the soup into bowls and garnish with chopped fresh parsley.

Notes

• Roasted garlic adds mellow sweetness and depth—don’t skip it!
• You can substitute the potatoes with parsnips or turnips for a different twist.
• If you like a little heat, add a pinch of red pepper flakes when sautéing the vegetables.
• This soup freezes well, so consider making extra for easy meals later.

Let's cook up something warm and satisfying!

Your wallet + your keys = Your sats. That’s the stack.

Create your identity. Spin up a wallet. Start earning.

All in under a minute on Zap Cooking. ⚡️

Friday night group chat on Zap Cooking 🍳 ⚡️ 

Join, drop your weirdest flavor pairing and we’ll zap you 500 sats. Live now.

https://zap.cooking/groups

What's the one recipe you've made so many times you don't need to look at it anymore?

#garlicstr making a comeback 👀

You can form a group and have deep garlic talk on zap.cooking/groups 🧄

Your wallet. Your Bitcoin. Your self custody. ⚡️

Zap Cooking now includes a built-in Bitcoin wallet.

Lightning (Spark / Breez + NWC) On-chain transactions

Get paid directly for your recipes.

Bitcoin transactions are irreversible. That’s the power — and the responsibility — of self custody.

To help mitigate transaction risk, Zap Cooking integrates

.

Branta provides infrastructure designed to let you send and receive Bitcoin with absolute certainty. Before you share an on-chain deposit address, it verifies that the address hasn’t been tampered with — reducing the risk of phishing, address swaps, and man-in-the-middle attacks.

Branta does not take custody. It does not route funds. It simply helps confirm address integrity before a transaction happens.

Self custody is freedom. Certainty makes it stronger.

Share a recipe. Receive sats. Learn by doing.

Food culture funded by people, not ads. ⚡️🍳

Cooking is the original creator economy. Make something good, people show up.

See that ring around their profile pic? Our members glow. Ready to join? zap.cooking/membership

Every recipe app added AI this year. Only one added Lightning payments. Turns out, creators want to get paid for their work. Wild concept. ⚡🍳