it’s been quite some time since i last posted, to be frank, it’s simply because i am no longer as interested in sortedfood! mostly because i don’t particularly enjoy the new formatting of how they do content, and then they recently introduced sorted kids, and that really rubbed me the wrong way (i feel very weird about monetising your own children and then the content you want to do with them isn’t exactly educational, rather just entertainment).

You pick a group of 3 recipes at once and use all perishable ingredients across those recipes so you don't end up with a bunch of stuff going bad in your fridge because you've no clue what to do with it.

They have a wide variety of vegetarian recipes and multiple types of cuisine.

The app reads each step out loud. This makes it rather harder to get distracted mid-step or miss a step, etc. You do a step, click done, and then it reads the next step aloud.

Timers are embedded in the recipe, appearing when you need them.

When a timer goes off, instead of just being a noise, it tells you exactly what it is for and what you should be looking for in the dish (e.g., "That's the timer for your spaghetti. They should be soft with a slight bite").

Every recipe includes veg (maybe 1 doesn't that I've made? A cheesy thing. But even then, I think I blended in cauliflower...). When I'm just throwing stuff together in my kitchen, I usually struggle to include vegetables. Sorted recipes always have something vegetal in them (plus they've given me ideas for how to include veg for quick cooking too).

None of the steps are super hard, and the recipes always taste good (with one notable exception; there is a tray bake that has been an utter failure every time I've tried it).

Instead of having to make a big decision about food when it is time to cook, you just have to look at your chosen pack for the week and decide which of the three options you're going to make that night. This makes cooking rather less stressful.

If you need to eat cheaply for a week or two, they have multiple recipe packs (3 recipes, at least 2 servings each) that use only 5 or 7 ingredients per recipe. These can be super cost-effective.

sortedfood, with its 13-year-old chokehold on my person: *exists*