🍳 Cooking with kids
Yummly
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Warning: read this before you buy or sign up. Checked 2026-10-24.
Yummly was a popular recipe search and meal-planning app that many families used to find dinners and build shopping lists. It is gone. Whirlpool, which bought Yummly in 2017, let the whole Yummly team go in April 2024, and the app and website were taken offline in December 2024. Today yummly.com sends visitors to KitchenAid's recipe pages. We keep this record so parents who find old recommendations know it no longer works.
Our take: Skip it; it no longer exists. Families who relied on it need a different recipe app.
| Ages it suits | was a general-audience app for adults |
|---|---|
| What its terms say about age | Service closed in December 2024; its old terms are no longer online. (terms) |
| Price | Free. Shut down in December 2024. Nothing to buy. |
| Works on | Web |
| Account | No account needed |
| Ads | None |
| In-app purchases | None |
| The AI in it | No longer running. |
What's good
- None today; the service is closed
Watch for
- Shut down in December 2024
- Old app installs and links no longer work
- Users lost saved recipes that were not exported
Data and privacy
Not stated; the service and its privacy policy are offline. yummly.com now redirects to KitchenAid's site. Read the privacy policy.
Does it work?
No studies. Closure details come from Wikipedia, which cites a TheSpoon report on the 2024 layoffs.
Alternatives to Yummly
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A solid free pick for teachers and parents teaching kids to cook safely; kids wanting a game will find only a little here.
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Jamie Oliver's 10 Skills (Ministry of Food)
Jamie Oliver Enterprises Limited · ages about 3-14 (UK primary and secondary; US schools and community groups)
A good free starting point for schools and clubs teaching basic cooking; families cooking at home will get more from free recipe sites, since this is built for classrooms.
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Kids Cook Real Food
Kitchen Stewardship LLC (Raising Healthy Families, Katie Kimball) · ages about 2-12 (Teens Cook Real Food for 13-21 is on a waitlist)
Suits parents who want a structured plan to teach several kids real kitchen skills at home; skip it if you want a kid to learn alone from an app.
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Kids Eat in Color
Kids Eat in Color, LLC · ages for parents of kids 0-18; BetterBites targets ages 1-5
Worth a look for parents worried about a young picky eater who want daily coaching; a child with weight loss or severe food refusal needs a doctor first.
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Outschool cooking classes
Outschool, Inc. · ages about 9-18 for the cooking listings we saw (Outschool overall covers 3-18)
Good for tweens and teens who want a live, social cooking class from home; younger kids need a parent beside them, and families uneasy about recorded video should skip it.
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Paprika Recipe Manager
Hindsight Labs LLC · ages adults (a parent's planning tool)
A solid, ad-free planner for the parent who runs the family kitchen; not a kids' product, so children should use it only alongside a parent.
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