# How to edit a recipe

Fix amounts, reword steps, change the photo, add tags or options, or ask AI to make it vegan or air-fryer friendly. Here's how editing works.

You can change anything in a saved recipe: the title, photo, ingredients, steps, servings, times, tags, tips and equipment. Or describe the change you want and let **Edit with AI** do it for you to review.

## Edit a recipe yourself

**1. Open the recipe's menu**

Tap the menu button at the top right of the recipe, then **Edit**.

**2. Make your changes**

- **Photo:** tap **Choose photo** to take or pick a new cover, remove it, or bring the original back with **Use original photo**.
- **Details:** tap it for the description, servings, times and tags (meal, diet and cuisine).
- **Ingredients and steps:** tap a line to change or remove it. Use **Add ingredient** to add one. A step can have its own photos.
- **Reorder:** press and hold a line until it lifts, then drag it. Holding a group's heading moves the whole group.

**3. Tap Save**

If your changes affect a planned meal or your shopping list, Phork It! shows you what will change first.

> **Note:**

Re-importing the same link never overwrites your edits. Once you've changed a recipe, it stays the way you made it.

## Edit with AI

Say what you want changed in your own words, like "make it vegan", "no oven, use the air fryer" or "less salt".

**4. Choose Edit with AI**

It's in the recipe's menu.

**5. Describe the change**

Phork It! writes the edited recipe and shows you exactly what would change, with a short summary. Ask for more changes, or answer if it asks you a question.

**6. Choose where to save it**

- **This recipe** replaces the recipe with the new version (**Save changes**).
- **New option** keeps your recipe and adds the AI's version as an option you can pick when cooking (**Add option**).
- **New recipe** saves it as a separate recipe and leaves this one as it is (**Save new recipe**).

Nothing is saved until you choose. To cook for more people, just use the servings stepper on the recipe instead.

## Delete a recipe

Open the recipe's menu and choose **Delete**. Phork It! tells you if the recipe is on your plan or shopping list, since those go too. Tap **Delete** to confirm.

> **Deleted something by mistake?**

There's no undo button, but importing the same link again brings an imported recipe back, as it was first imported. For a recipe you typed or pasted, email us at [hello@phorkit.com](mailto:hello@phorkit.com).

## Good to know

- There's no way to see or restore earlier versions in the app yet. If you need an older version back, email us.
- Changing an ingredient's amount, unit, name or note rebuilds the line from those parts, so extra words in the original line may go.
- Edit with AI shares an hourly limit with generating recipes.

- [How to add a photo to a recipe, including an AI-generated one](https://phorkit.com/help/en/recipes-library/ai-recipe-photos)
- [How Phork It! writes up an imported recipe](https://phorkit.com/help/en/importing/how-imported-recipes-are-written)

Source: https://phorkit.com/help/en/recipes-library/edit-a-recipe (updated 2026-11-03)