# Recipes in the app - can you copy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Anova Precision® Oven\ **Created:** [August 3, 2021, 4:18am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056 "2021-08-03T04:18:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tonydav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/258eb7/32.png) [@tonydav](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/tonydav)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 4:18am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056/1 "2021-08-03T04:18:32Z")
Is it possible to copy the base recipes to your recipes? E.g. the basic chicken legs recipe. Last night I cooked chicken breast skin on and used the legs recipe as the basis. But I cook breast to a lower temperature than thigh/legs. I manually made the changes but would love to have the changes saved in my recipe for next time. The breasts came out amazing BTW. Great oven. ---
**Author:** ![anovaculinary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/anovaculinary/32/7315_2.png) [@anovaculinary](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/anovaculinary)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056/2 "2021-08-03T20:46:25Z")
Hey Tony! Not currently, but that is a recipe feature we have heard and are exploring ways to “copy” a recipe and change it to fit your tastes. Hope to have some news there soon! Thanks for the love! ---
**Author:** ![tonydav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/258eb7/32.png) [@tonydav](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/tonydav)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056/3 "2021-08-03T21:37:50Z")
I suspect you’re also looking at ways of integrating the recipes, including our own recipes, into the website. This would really kickstart the community side of things. ---
**Author:** ![anovaculinary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/anovaculinary/32/7315_2.png) [@anovaculinary](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/anovaculinary)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056/4 "2021-08-03T21:49:06Z")
Yep! Sharing recipes, copying/remixing recipes, etc! Totally with ya there. ---
**Author:** ![mbaileybend](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/mbaileybend/32/7671_2.png) [@mbaileybend](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/mbaileybend)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056/5 "2021-08-04T21:33:53Z")
Until they come out with a way to do it. I take a photo of the stage then go into My recipes and create the stage you wanted to copy. You can add more stages as you go along. ---
**Author:** ![tonydav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/258eb7/32.png) [@tonydav](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/tonydav)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 3:37am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056/6 "2021-08-09T03:37:25Z")
Much the same as what I’m doing. But hopefully they’ll get this sorted. I have variations on my own recipes - particularly sous vide at different temperature and times and would be good to just copy and modify, not have to recreate. It would also be great if you could create a recipe from the activity log. At the moment I think this works if it’s a cook you created, but if it’s a recipe you used and modified you can’t do that. ---
**Author:** ![JKadauke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/jkadauke/32/7461_2.png) [@JKadauke](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/JKadauke)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056/7 "2021-11-17T15:44:27Z")
I’m really looking forward to having this feature!!! 😍 😍 😍 ---
**Author:** ![cgfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@cgfan](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/cgfan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056/8 "2021-11-17T19:24:10Z")
I ran into this myself just as you illustrate - in doing target temperature variations on Sous Vide recipes… While copying would help a lot, I also [suggested another means](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/feature-request-user-system-variable-support-in-recipes-duplicate-recipe/29555) in a recent post of mine, though fear my wording wasn’t very clear, or at least to those unfamiliar w/programming terms or concepts. But in general the idea is to allow for a recipe to refer to not a fixed/specified numeric temp or time, but rather to a **“named variable”** instead that can later be specified each time one runs the recipe, a means to have a single **master recipe** that runs with varying temps or times each time it’s run… Even better would be to allow for several recipes to refer to the same master recipe, with each recipe specifying values for each of these “named variable” temps or times referenced in the master recipe… ---
**Author:** ![akline](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/akline/32/7553_2.png) [@akline](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/akline)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056/9 "2022-01-14T14:06:55Z")
Bump! Copy would be great. ---
**Author:** ![anovaculinary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/anovaculinary/32/7315_2.png) [@anovaculinary](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/anovaculinary)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056/10 "2022-01-14T16:12:27Z")
Agree! Coming soon ---
**Author:** ![Douglas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/douglas/32/7533_2.png) [@Douglas](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Douglas)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056/11 "2022-01-14T18:22:44Z")
Many forums and people - me - are deeply concerned with DMCA copyrights. It might be beneficial to make clear what is considered fair use here or release the rights. ---
**Author:** ![anovaculinary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/anovaculinary/32/7315_2.png) [@anovaculinary](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/anovaculinary)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056/12 "2022-01-14T18:50:06Z")
Hey Douglas, this is most definitely being taken into consideration! ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_Lengthy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/chris_lengthy/32/7557_2.png) [@Chris\_Lengthy](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Chris_Lengthy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056/13 "2022-01-16T14:53:05Z")
The ability to save and edit recipes seems like a no-brainer, not sure how that was never considered. **ESPECIALLY** since many recipes get “published” that have critical errors! ---
**Author:** ![eat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@eat](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/eat)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 12:48am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056/14 "2022-01-17T00:48:42Z")
Absolutely. And I can’t understand how Anova does not see things like that. A good idea should go into the app within a few days. And please, chose coders that have the oven, and cook! Otherwise you get something that gives a poor user experience. And while at this - please remove the image spaceholder from “My Recipes”. That `if else` statement shouldn’t take longer than 20 Minutes to implement.