# How to mark a recipe as cooked and rate it

Log each time you cook a recipe with 1 to 5 stars, up to 5 photos and a note for next time, then find it all in the recipe's History.

Every time you cook something, log it with a rating, photos and a note for next time ("less chilli"). Each recipe keeps its cooks under **History**, so you know what worked.

## Log a cook

There are three ways to do it:

- **From cook mode:** tap **Finish** on the last step. The cook is saved straight away, and you can add a photo while the food is ready, plus stars and a note.
- **From the recipe:** open its menu and choose **Mark as cooked**.
- **From the plan:** on the **Plan** tab, tap the ⋮ next to the meal and choose **Mark as cooked**. The meal gets a green tick.

**1. Check the details**

In **Cooked it**, **Day** starts on today (pick an earlier day if you cooked it before). Adjust **Servings** and **Recipe options** if you made something different.

**2. Rate it and add photos**

Give it 1 to 5 stars, add up to 5 photos of the dish and a note. All of these are optional.

**3. Tap Mark as cooked**

The cook appears in the recipe's **History**.

> **Tip:**

Rather rate it after you've eaten? Close the photo screen after **Finish**. Phork It! reminds you to **Rate your cook** a little later, or you can edit the cook from **History** any time.

## See, edit or delete your cooks

Open a recipe and scroll to **History**: its cooks are listed newest first, with stars, servings, notes and photos. Tap the ⋮ next to one of your cooks to **Edit** it (day, rating, photos, note, servings, options) or **Delete** it.

## Rate the recipe itself

Besides each cook's stars, a recipe has **Your rating**, next to **Start cooking**. Tap a star to rate the recipe, and tap the same star again or **Clear** to take it off. Until you rate it, the average of your cooks' stars shows there instead, and once you have, it shows underneath. Rating a cook doesn't change the recipe's rating. It's shared with your household, isn't shown when you share the recipe, and doesn't change the recipe or its History. Recipes you brought from another app keep the stars you gave them there.

## Cooks and your plan

- Logging from the recipe screen doesn't tick a planned meal by itself. To tick a meal, mark it from the plan, or open the recipe by tapping the meal on the plan.
- Already logged the recipe today and now marking the planned meal? Phork It! asks **Already logged?**: tap **Use that cook** so you don't log it twice.
- In **History**, a cook that isn't linked to the plan has **Link to plan** in its ⋮ menu.
- To undo a meal you marked by mistake, tap its ⋮ on the plan and choose **Unmark as cooked**. Its rating and note go too.

> **Note:**

Ratings are whole stars, 1 to 5. There isn't a screen with every cook across all your recipes yet: each recipe shows its own History.

- [How to cook a recipe step by step in cook mode](https://phorkit.com/help/en/cooking/use-cook-mode)
- [How to plan your meals for the week](https://phorkit.com/help/en/planning-shopping/plan-your-meals)

Source: https://phorkit.com/help/en/cooking/log-and-rate-cooks (updated 2026-11-04)