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From the kitchen floor.
Thoughts on food, friction, and what we're building.
"It Looked Good, So I Wanted to Make It": It Wasn't Confidence for Them. It Was Something Else Entirely.
They blame confidence. But watching my Gen Z crew tackle dishes they'd never made showed me the real gap between me and them is gauging difficulty, not nerve.
Cooking Is a Decision: Ten Weeks In, Here's What We're Learning
Ten weeks post-launch, our cook-through rate is still low. Maybe a saved-recipe collection isn't a to-do list at all — maybe it's more like a shoe collection.
I Cooked Your Recipe, But You'll Never Know.
I cooked your recipe — and you'll never know I did. That's the gap every food creator lives with: platforms count the saves, but never the meal that actually got made. Here's the loop saltpig was built to close.
You Save Every Recipe You See. So Why Aren't You Cooking?
You have 347 saved recipes on Instagram. 84 TikToks bookmarked. A Pinterest board called 'actually going to make these' that you have not touched since 2022. Tonight, you ordered DoorDash.