Save a TikTok recipe
from the share arrow.
TikTok’s own Like and Favorite buttons bury the video. The share arrow is the path that writes the recipe down. These are the TikTok taps. Organizing what you save — one collection, a small weekly shortlist, and which videos to retire — is the full save-from-social guide.
Three steps, then back to the video
Tap the Share arrow
On the recipe video, tap the arrow on the right (not the heart, not the bookmark). The first time, scroll the app row, tap More, and turn on RecipeScan. After that it stays in the row.
Send the video
Tap RecipeScan. Or tap Copy Link and paste it into RecipeScan’s Add Recipe screen. Either one reads the video’s caption, not the audio and not pages linked from it. You can keep scrolling.
Check it before you cook
Open the app when you are actually going to make it. Confirm the title and the amounts. A written recipe is what you can search, scale, and shop from. A Like is not.
If the creator only says the recipe out loud and the caption is a joke, the import cannot hear the audio, and a caption with no amounts gives it nothing real to go on. Check anything it fills in. Screenshot a pinned recipe card in the comments — most cooking accounts pin one — and use photo scan on that image. No card and no caption: skip it. Saving a mood is how the pile comes back.
Instagram uses a paper plane, YouTube puts Share under the video, and Pinterest follows the pin to a blog. Those taps are on their own short pages. The method that applies to all of them is the guide to saving recipes from TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.