ChopChop: The Digital Cookbook

Authors

• Dominc McDevitt, St. Mary's University
• Shane Misley, St. Mary's University
• Adolfo Duran, St. Mary's University
• Katie Cerda, St. Mary's University
• Kobie Henson, St. Mary's University

Files

Digital Publisher

Digital Commons at St. Mary's University

Publication Date

Spring 2026

Keywords

Cooking, Cookbooks, Ebooks, Mobile applications

Description

Many of today's home chefs still use the same limited methods of saving recipes that have been used for decades, i.e. handwritten notes, disorganized pdfs, screenshots, saved text messages, etc. Not only are these formats hard to keep track of and easily lost, but they also suffer the risk of becoming irrevocably damaged or stained in the cooking process. They are also notoriously hard to edit, which limits a chef's ability to tailor recipes to their taste, their available ingredients, or even just a different serving size. Another major issue with these approaches is the lack of easy sharing. Giving a friend a family favorite often requires photocopying, file sharing, or even manually re-writing the recipe, all of which are tedious and time-consuming. Worse yet, this assumes the recipe-sharer even has access to their recipes, which may not be the case when traveling or at a social gathering. All of these problems are our inspiration for developing ChopChop, a digital recipe management application.

Format

pdf

Size

1 poster

City

San Antonio, Texas

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.