About Sharp Cooking
By home cooks, for home cooks.
Sharp Cooking was designed to tame an excess of recipes. Our solution is now your solution.
The story
Why we built this.
Here in the Schick Shack, we had a shelf of cookbooks, a binder of printouts, and recipes saved in the New York Times and America's Test Kitchen websites. Hundreds of recipes we love — tested in our own kitchen, trusted to work.
And yet, every evening, the same question: What's for dinner?
Not because we didn't have recipes. Because they were scattered across too many places to actually use them. When we wanted to plan the week, we'd start from scratch — forgetting half of what we had, defaulting to the same five dinners, ordering out when it got too complicated.
We looked for a digital solution, but nothing connected all the pieces.
So we built one.
The team
Two people. One kitchen.
King Arthur Baking, Norwich, Vermont, 2024
Meet Joe
Joe Schick
Partial to Italian and Mexican food, but cooks a little bit of everything. Business development executive in publishing and technology. Co-founder of Schick Creative.
Meet Marie
Marie Schick
Confident that her polenta recipe is better than his. Nonprofit leader, marketing therapist. Co-founder of Schick Creative.
What we believe
Our values.
These are the rules that we use to make decisions about what to build, what to charge for, and what to refuse.
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Private
Your recipes, meal plans, and notes belong to you. We don't sell your data, we don't track you across the web, and we actively block search engines and AI scrapers from accessing your collection. Read more about privacy and ownership →
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Accessible
Digital cooking tools should be genuinely better than a paper cookbook for every cook. We treat Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as a floor, not a ceiling. Cooking is for everyone, including the cook with their hands full.
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Global
Food knows no borders. Sharp Cooking ships with a User Interface in a growing list of languages, and our AI-powered importer is designed to read and extract recipes in many languages.
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Ethical
No dark patterns. No algorithm designed to keep you scrolling. No manufactured urgency. We make money by building a good product, not by exploiting your attention.
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Durable
Designed for the slow roast, not the quick sear. We use proven technology, we make the data portable, and we design for the moment you're standing at the stove with three burners going.
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Personal
Your notes, your tweaks, your system. A recipe collection is something special, so we treat yours with the care a hand-written cookbook deserves.
Get in touch
Let's talk.
Real cooks, ideas, bug reports, suggestions, the occasional photo of something you cooked. Hello@SharpCooking.com
