Community
Thousands of kitchens, one long dinner table
Simmer runs on the people who cook, photograph and comment every day. Here's how to join in.
Community in numbers
- Recipes published
- 12k+Recipes published
- Photos in comments
- 48kPhotos in comments
- Ratings left
- 190kRatings left
- Countries cooking
- 40Countries cooking
What's cooking together
Every Sunday
Sunday cook-along
One recipe, one evening, hundreds of kitchens. Post your plate in the comments and compare notes.
Monthly
Ingredient challenge
We pick a humble ingredient — this month it's lentils — and the community reinvents it.
Quarterly
Bake-off week
Seven days of desserts, judged entirely on photos and comment reactions from other cooks.
Voices from the kitchen
“Simmer turned my weekend cooking into a hobby I actually share. The community feedback helped me refine my jollof rice until it was perfect.”
Amara Okafor“I've tried three recipe apps and this is the only one where the ratings actually mean something. The photo comments make it feel like cooking with friends.”
Daniel Reyes“The Quick & Easy filter saves my weeknights. I can find a 20-minute dinner that my kids will eat and save it to my cookbook in seconds.”
Priya Sharma
House rules
- Only rate recipes you have actually cooked.
- Leave the tweak, not the takedown — suggest a fix instead of a complaint.
- Credit the source when a recipe is adapted from someone else.
- Post your own photos; never upload images you don't have the right to share.
- Keep comments about the food, not the cook.