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Introducing the Drizzlelemons Chrome Extension: Save Any Recipe, Ad-Free, in One Click

April 2026

Our Chrome extension is now live on the Chrome Web Store. Install it once, and any recipe you stumble across — on a big food site, a tiny blog, a Google search result — can be saved to your ad-free Drizzlelemons collection with a single click. No copy-paste. No leaving the page. No scrolling back to the ingredients you already read past.

If you have ever lost a recipe to a bookmark rot, a redesigned blog, or a Notes app paste that shattered into one long paragraph, this is the piece of the workflow that was missing.

What the extension does

The extension is deliberately small. One button in the Chrome toolbar. Click it on any recipe page and it:

  • Extracts the recipe — ingredients, quantities, method steps, cooking time, and images — using the same engine that powers the main Drizzlelemons site.
  • Strips the noise — no ads, no autoplay video, no newsletter popups, no 800-word preamble about someone's Amalfi holiday.
  • Saves to your collection — one place, searchable and sortable, available across every device you sign into.
  • Syncs to your phone — start on a laptop, cook from the phone. The recipe is ready when you walk into the kitchen.

That is the whole pitch. It is a bookmark that actually preserves the recipe, on any site, without the ads.

How to install and use it

  1. Install. Open the Drizzlelemons Chrome Web Store listing and click Add to Chrome. Pin the icon to your toolbar so it is one click away.
  2. Sign in once. The first time you save, the extension asks you to sign into Drizzlelemons. After that, every save goes straight to your account.
  3. Find a recipe. Anywhere on the web — BBC Good Food, Smitten Kitchen, Serious Eats, a niche blog a friend sent you, the first result on a Google search for "miso butter salmon".
  4. Click the toolbar icon. The extension extracts the recipe from the page, strips the ads, and saves it to your collection. A small confirmation tells you it worked.
  5. Cook from your phone. Open the Drizzlelemons app on your phone, tap the recipe, and enter Cook Mode — one step at a time, large text, built-in timers, screen kept on while your hands are full.

Why a Chrome extension, and not just the website

Drizzlelemons has always accepted a recipe URL — paste it in, get a clean extracted copy back. That works, but it has a problem: it requires you to leave the page you are reading, open a new tab, copy the URL, paste it, and wait. The friction is small but real, and small friction is what turns into a graveyard of forty-seven browser bookmarks you never look at again.

The extension collapses the flow to a single click in the place you already are. That difference is the difference between intending to save recipes and actually saving them. For a fuller argument about why browser bookmarks fail as a recipe system — and why structured saves survive where URLs do not — we wrote about it here.

Which sites does the extension work on?

Any public recipe page. The extension uses the same extraction pipeline as the main Drizzlelemons site, so if a recipe page loads in your browser, the extension can read it. That includes:

  • Big food publishers — BBC Good Food, Serious Eats, NYT Cooking (public pages), Bon Appétit, Food Network, Delicious, Jamie Oliver.
  • Independent food blogs — Smitten Kitchen, Half Baked Harvest, Minimalist Baker, and thousands of smaller sites.
  • Regional and community sites — Nigella.com, Rachel Roddy, Food52, Good Food Australia.

We have a broader comparison of the best recipe websites to save from in our 2026 roundup, and a look at how Drizzlelemons stacks up against other recipe extraction tools. For paywalled pages and social-only recipes (Instagram reels, TikTok videos), see our guide to saving recipes from Instagram and TikTok.

Ad-free by design

A typical food blog serves twenty to thirty ad units, an autoplay video, a newsletter popup, and 800 words of preamble written specifically to increase ad impressions. That is not a moral failing of the writer — it is how the economics of the open recipe web work. But it is a terrible experience at the stove.

When the extension saves a recipe, it saves the recipe. Ingredients, quantities, method, timing, images. The ads, the popups, the pre-recipe life story — none of that makes it across. The copy in your Drizzlelemons collection is clean, structured, and stable. If the original blog closes tomorrow, your copy still works. More on why we care about this in removing ads from recipe sites.

How it fits with the rest of Drizzlelemons

The extension is the capture layer. The rest of Drizzlelemons is what you do with the capture.

  • Organise your collection with search, sort, tags, and favourites — so "that roast thing from a few weeks ago" surfaces in seconds.
  • Cook Mode gives you a hands-free, step-by-step view at the hob with detected timers and wake lock.
  • Smart shopping lists combine ingredients across recipes for the week's shop.
  • Share recipes with friends and family, ad-free, with a clean link.

If you want a broader context for why we built all of this, the case for recipe apps without subscriptions is probably the clearest thing we have written on it.

Privacy and what gets sent

When you click the toolbar icon, the extension sends the current page's URL (and, on some complex sites, a small amount of rendered HTML) to Drizzlelemons so we can extract the recipe. Nothing is captured in the background. The extension does not track your browsing, does not read pages you have not asked it to save, and does not inject anything into pages you visit. We only pull a page when you explicitly click Save.

Install it and stop losing recipes

Bookmarks preserve a URL. The extension preserves the recipe. For anyone who has ever gone back to cook something and found a 404, a paywall, or a page so full of ads that the ingredients have fled to another continent — this is the fix.

Install the Drizzlelemons Chrome extension →

The extension is free. Saving recipes is free. Cooking from them, across every device, is free. Lemons — our credit system for generating or customising recipes — are optional, and only used for the AI-powered parts of the product. Everything about capturing and organising the recipes you already find on the web is unlimited.

The recipes you love deserve better than a bookmark. One click away.