Restaurant nights, at your place.
Pick a dish from theBEAT. Slide to the number you’re feeding. We scale the recipe, estimate the grocery cost, build the shopping list, and write the invites.
Make It Together turns it into a group cooking night — build the menu, invite the guests, and run it Fully Hosted (you cook the spread) or Shared Table (everyone takes a dish).
From a dish you loved to the table that’ll remember it.
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Pick a dish you loved.
Any ranked dish in theBEAT can be cooked at home — adapted to your needs, scaled to your table. Cacio e pepe, smash burger, birria tacos, slow-braised short rib. The work the kitchen does, made repeatable.
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Slide to the number you’re feeding.
2 to 12. Every ingredient, every cost, every cook time auto-recomputes. We scale cook time non-linearly (
time × scale0.3, where scale is guests ÷ 4) — built on a principle cooks have long worked by: doubling a recipe doesn’t double the cook time. Salt, pepper and spice scale atscale0.75, so a doubled pot isn’t twice as salty. A 16-pound turkey does not take four times a four-pound turkey. It’s just smarter than apps that cap at six servings and scale linearly. -
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Tell us who’s bringing what.
Tap an ingredient, assign it to a guest. Your shopping list splits by person. On Priority, MapKit surfaces the nearest health-forward groceries. The night becomes shared.
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Send the invite.
A share-card lands in their messages, with who’s bringing what. Inside, plating notes turn the meal into the moment. The way it’s held, garnished, served — the kitchen’s read on what makes the dish itself.
Apps that send invites don’t help you cook.
Apps that scale recipes don’t help you host.
theBEAT does both — because the meal IS the moment.
Doubling a recipe isn’t doubling the time.
Most cooking apps that “scale” a recipe just multiply every number by the same factor. That works for ingredients. It does not work for cook times — because a braise that takes three hours for four servings takes three hours for eight. Heat doesn’t care how much beef is in the pot.
4 hr × 2 = 8 hr
Multiplies everything. Tells you to clear a Saturday for a recipe that finishes by lunch.
time × scale0.3
A 4-hour braise for four, doubled to eight: about 4 hr 55 min, not 8. Heat reaches a bigger pot faster than its mass grows — doubling adds about a quarter.
The rule: recipes don’t scale linearly — long-standing kitchen wisdom. The calculator below and the party planner in the app run the same two exponents.
Make It Together — a cooking night for the room.
Build the menu, invite the guests, and pick your mode — Fully Hosted or Shared Table. Three free recipes here to try the scaling; the full library, ingredient assignment, and grocery hand-off arrive inside the iPhone app.
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Ingredients
Method
Ingredients scale linearly; salt, pepper and spice at scale0.75. Times use time × scale0.3 — the app’s rule.
Who-brings-what, grocery cost and invite share-cards are in the iPhone app.
Free preview, then it scales.
- Free 3 recipe unlocks, ever — plus every desk-written recipe, free
- Plus 4 new recipes a month · the scaling slider (2 to 12) · grocery cost · shopping list · who brings what
- Priority Everything in Plus, up to 100 new recipes a month · grocery finder · plating notes on some recipes · invite share-cards
* Make It At Home lives inside the iPhone app. The three recipes above preview the scaling; the full library, who-brings-what, grocery cost and invite share-cards are in the iPhone app. — Leave your email — for one note when it lands on the App Store.