Progress and Cooking Guide Updates
Understand saved session progress and cooking guide refreshes.
Close and Continue Later
Closing Start Cooking keeps the current stage, checklist marks, Cooking Notes, current step, and timer state so you can return to the session.
When you open Start Cooking on another participating device, Sparky Cooks can offer the active session. Choose Continue Cooking to join it or Start New Session to cook separately without changing the other session.
Choose Finish after the last cooking step when you are ready to process any Cooking Notes and review the result. Finishing ends the Cooking Session on its connected devices after the review is completed or discarded.
Cooking-session progress:
- Does not change the saved recipe.
- Synchronizes across participating devices for the same Cooking Session.
- Is not automatically shared as a co-cooking session with every other user in the account.
- Can be cleared when the generated cooking guide changes.
Sparky Cooks keeps a local recovery copy where supported, but synchronization requires a connection. If a device temporarily loses its connection, keep the session open while it reconnects.
When a Cooking Guide Is Prepared
Sparky Cooks prepares a guide when one is missing or when cooking-related recipe content has changed. Existing recipes can create their first guide when you choose Start Cooking.
After an editing session that changed ingredients or directions, Sparky Cooks checks whether the guide needs an update when you close the editor. Routine autosaves do not start a separate guide update every time.
If Preparation Takes Time
The preparation message changes as Sparky Cooks reads the saved recipe, organizes ingredients and equipment, builds the steps, and checks timing details. Detailed recipes can take longer.
If preparation fails, choose Try Again. The failure does not change the saved recipe.
If an editor update is interrupted, use the retry action shown by the app or open Start Cooking again. Sparky Cooks will use a current guide when one is available and prepare a new one when necessary.