How to Translate a Recipe with AI Without Overwriting the Original
AI translation creates a linked copy in a new language and leaves the source recipe untouched.
Arisa Shiraishi
Solo builder of Souschef1 min read
Some recipes are worth cooking in the language they were written in, and worth sharing in another. Souschef translation creates a linked copy so you never lose the original wording.
The longer bilingual story, including why Japanese support mattered to me, is in Souschef in Japanese.
Quick answer: Open a saved recipe, tap translate, pick a language, and review the new linked recipe. The original stays as it was. Supported languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, and Polish.
How to translate a recipe
- Save the recipe in Souschef first. Translation works on recipes already in your library.
- Open the recipe and tap the translate icon.
- Choose a target language.
- Review ingredient names, units, and technique words, then save the linked copy if you want to keep it.
You can translate the same recipe more than once. A Japanese copy and a Spanish copy can sit beside the source.
What translation does not do
It does not overwrite the original. It does not replace unit conversion. It is not a guarantee that every culinary term will match how a grandmother would say it. Edit the translated recipe if a phrase feels off.
Translation is included on the free plan and requires the iPhone or Android app, not the lightweight web viewer.
Bilingual cooking, practically
Import a Japanese website recipe, keep that original, and translate an English copy for the person cooking tonight. Or import an English YouTube recipe and keep a Japanese linked version. Then scale and cook from whichever copy is on the counter.
Translate a saved recipe
Pick one recipe you already love and make a linked copy in the language you need this week.
Get Souschef for iPhone and iPad or download Souschef for Android.