Frequently Asked Questions

NYT Cooking is a subscription offering from The New York Times. It is a digital, cross-platform cooking service that helps users discover the world’s best recipes, save and organize their cooking life and serve as an approachable guide in the kitchen. The Food section of The New York Times publishes feature stories, food news and restaurant reviews. Any recipe published in the Food section can also be found on NYT Cooking.

In order to access NYT Cooking, we require users to create an account, or log in with an existing New York Times account. Registered users will have access to a limited portion of NYT Cooking’s content and tools, while full access will require a subscription to NYT Cooking. NYT Cooking access is also included in all New York Times print subscriptions, as well as “All Access” digital subscriptions. If you have a “Basic” subscription, click here to see options for upgrading to get full access to NYT Cooking.

There will be a selection of editor-curated recipes, collections and guides available for free. This content will be updated on a regular basis to reflect seasonally relevant recipes, along with some of our newest content and recommendations from our editors. You will also be able to save recipes and collections to your Recipe Box, as well as write and view public notes on free recipes.

We offer all new and existing users a one-time 28 day free trial, which includes full, unlimited access to NYT Cooking similar to what you’d have with a subscription. This limited trial period includes: access to our entire database of recipes, collections and guides, access to our subscriber-only iOS app, organization and customization tools within your Recipe Box and more.

No. The standard 28-day free trial will not require your credit card, and you will not be automatically charged at the conclusion of that free trial.

The remaining time in your trial is displayed in the top-right corner of your browser window on desktop computers, or in the left-hand navigation on a mobile web browser.

NYT Cooking is included with print subscriptions, as well as “All Access” digital subscriptions. If you have a “Basic” subscription, click here to see options for upgrading to get full access to NYT Cooking.

To see if your NYT subscription includes access to NYT Cooking, visit your NYTimes Account.

NYTimes “All Access” digital and home delivery subscriptions (excluding Crosswords) include access to NYT Cooking. Please note that the “Basic” subscription option does not include NYT Cooking.

As a subscriber with NYT Cooking access (through a paid NYT Cooking or All Access subscription), you will have unlimited access to all the content and tools NYT Cooking has to offer, as well as to our NYT-Cooking-subscriber-only iOS app. You will be able to browse the entire NYT Cooking recipe database, including all of our how-to guides and editor-curated collections. You will also unlock all the organization and customization tools in your Recipe Box. This includes the ability to take advantage of our auto-organizing smart folders, create personalized folders to manage your saved recipes, search your Recipe Box, and import recipes from other sites into your NYT Cooking Recipe Box. You will also be able to write private notes on individual recipes to keep track of the ways you make each recipe your own.

You have multiple options to subscribe to NYT Cooking. You can purchase as a standalone subscription, or as part of a broader print or “All Access” digital New York Times subscription bundle. Most options offer the choice between billing every 4 weeks or billing annually. Please note that the “Basic” subscription option does not include NYT Cooking.

An NYT Cooking subscription can be purchased at a rate of $5, billed every 4 weeks. You can also choose to purchase a subscription bill annually, at a rate of $40 per year.

A monthly subscription to NYT Cooking is available for purchase here.

A discounted annual subscription to NYT Cooking is available for purchase here.

Yes. For $40 for one year of unlimited access, NYT Cooking gift subscriptions are available here.

You can change or cancel your subscription at any time by contacting Customer Care.

If you are in the United States, please call 1-800-NYTIMES (1-800-698-4637).

If you are outside of the United States, find the Customer Care phone number serving your country here.

When you cancel, we will stop charging your account the following billing cycle. Each billing cycle is four weeks, so your access will continue for the remainder of the current four-week period.

View the full NYTimes cancellation and refund policy »

You will not lose your Recipe Box. However, some of the recipes within your Recipe Box may no longer be accessible if they are not part of the editor-curated free recipes. Any non-NYT Cooking recipes imported into your Recipe Box during your subscription will remain available.

You can change or cancel your subscription at any time by contacting Customer Care.

If you are in the United States, please call 1-800-NYTIMES (1-800-698-4637).

If you are outside of the United States, find the Customer Care phone number serving your country here.

You can upgrade your subscription to include full New York Times access at any time by visiting this page. Please note that the “Basic” subscription option does not include NYT Cooking.

Yes. Exclusive for subscribers, there is an NYT Cooking app available for any iPad or iPhone with iOS 11.0 or later. To learn about how to view NYT Cooking on your Apple Watch visit NYT Cooking on Apple Watch. For all other users and devices, you can visit our mobile site at cooking.nytimes.com.

The NYT Cooking app is available in the App Store here. The app includes all of the recipes and collections featured on the website.

The NYT Cooking app is currently available only on iPad and iPhone. However, the website may be accessed through any smartphone or tablet device.

You can save any recipe from a recipe card or the recipe page. Saved recipes will be available in your Recipe Box.

From the website:

Click the ‘Save to Recipe Box’ button at the top of the recipe page under the recipe title.

Saved recipes will be available in your Recipe Box. You can visit your Recipe Box by clicking Recipe Box on the menu bar at the top of the screen, or on smaller screens, by opening the menu with the top left button from anywhere on the site.

From the iOS app:

Click Save on a recipe card to save it to your Recipe Box throughout the app. On a recipe page, the Save button sits above the recipe title.

If you are not a paying subscriber to NYT Cooking, in a 28-day free trial, or have a qualifying New York Times print or digital subscription, you will only be able to access recipes that are being made available for free. These recipes change on a weekly basis. We will never remove anything from your Recipe Box, but if you have previously saved a recipe that is not currently free, you will not be able to access it. You can upgrade at any time to unlock all these recipes, along with the other organization tools of your Recipe Box.

From the website:

Click the button with the ‘Print’ icon next to the ‘Save to Recipe Box’ button on the right hand side at the top of the recipe page.

From the iOS app:

Tap on the Share icon in the upper right corner of a recipe page and select “Print” from the options.

From the website:

To share a recipe via Email, Facebook, Pinterest or Twitter, choose one of these tools in the top right corner of the recipe page.

From the iOS app:

To share a recipe or collection with friends via Twitter, Facebook, text message or email, tap the share icon, then choose your sharing tool.

In order to better protect your privacy and comply with data protection laws, Recipe Boxes are now private. Individual recipes, Collection pages and Guides can still be shared by sending the URL of the page you'd like to send.

From the web:

You can read and write public and private Notes from the web at the bottom of every recipe page. To read the most popular public Notes, click the ‘Most Helpful’ tab; private notes you've written are available under the ‘Private Notes’ tab. To write either public or private notes, click or tap on the text field above the notes.

From the iOS app:

You can read and write both public and private Notes in our iOS app. To read Notes, tap the icon in the top right corner of the screen. To write Notes, tap the same icon and then the Add button in the top right area of the Notes screen; public and private note creation is available from this interface.

Yes. We welcome your feedback and suggestions for any of NYT Cooking’s recipes. All users can write public notes at any time. Private notes are available for subscribers only.

We are interested in your feedback and suggestions about our recipes. We look for Notes that might prove helpful to other readers who are preparing to cook a meal.

It’s O.K. if you don’t like a certain recipe or the ingredients listed; however, your Notes should offer constructive information for other readers.

A few things we won't tolerate: personal attacks, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity (including expletives and letters followed by dashes), commercial promotion, impersonations, incoherence and SHOUTING.

We moderate Notes to ensure that NYT Cooking is a reputable space to gather useful information about a recipe.

We hope to create an atmosphere in which people who use NYT Cooking can rely on Notes as a trustworthy source for critical feedback or tips regarding published recipes.

While most Notes will be posted expediently if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderating decisions are subjective and may take some time. We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can.

We ask you to complete the simple NYTimes.com registration process to ensure that you are a “real” person and that you accept our terms and conditions. The registration process serves to facilitate the development of our online community and ensure that members take responsibility for their comments.

If you don’t already have a display name, you will be prompted to enter one when leaving a note:

When you leave a Note, only your display name will be shown. Your email address will not be shown anywhere on the site, and private notes will be visible only to you.

We offer tools on desktop, phone, and all major browsers to help you easily save as you browse recipes across the web. Learn about all of our saving tools on our Tools page (from the NYT Cooking app, you can also find the Tools page under Settings).

You can also save third-party recipes within your Recipe Box using the ‘Add a Non-NYT Recipe’ button in the top-right corner of the page on larger screens, and at the bottom of the page on mobile phones.

Saving recipes from other sites is a subscriber-exclusive feature.

Recipes can be organized into different folders in your Recipe Box. These tools are subscriber-exclusive features.

From the web:

You can organize saved recipes using the organize button (next to the ‘Saved’ button) on the recipe detail page. You can also drag and drop recipes (including non-NYT recipes) into folders in the Recipe Box on larger screens. When saving a non-NYT recipe in the Recipe Box, you can also choose to add it to a folder.

From the iOS app:

Tap on any saved button on a recipe card or on the recipe page to place it in a folder in your Recipe Box. Currently, we do not support organizing non-NYT recipes in the app.

You must have the NYT Cooking iPhone app and a subscription to NYT Cooking to use NYT Cooking for Apple Watch. We currently support Apple Watches running watchOS 3.0 or later. After pairing your Apple Watch with your iPhone, you should see a red icon with a white "T" on the Watch's home screen. If the NYT Cooking Watch app is not automatically installed after installing your iPhone app, go to The Watch App on your iPhone and select "Install" from the Available Apps section.

• View a Recipe on Your Apple Watch: You can view a recipe on your watch by simply viewing the recipe on your iPhone.
• Check Off Ingredients and Preparation Steps as You Shop or Cook: When you view a recipe on the watch, the title, author, cook time and yield load first. Swipe right to see the ingredients. Swipe to move on to the preparation screen. Tap preparation steps to mark them as "done." To change the recipe, view a different recipe on your iPhone.

If you have a print subscription or a qualifying “All Access” digital subscription to The New York Times, you should use that email address to get the full benefits of the NYT Cooking subscription experience. If you’re using a different email address for NYT Cooking, you will need to subscribe using the NYT Cooking email address to access the full subscriber benefits.

You can unsubscribe from emails at any time by visiting the Email Subscriptions page in your My Account area.