For Recipe Creators

The creators portal gives recipe website owners control over how their recipes appear in Platebreaker search results. It is free to use and available at creators.platebreaker.com.

How Platebreaker Works for Creators

Platebreaker is a nutrition-focused recipe search engine. It indexes recipe pages from across the web, extracts the structured recipe metadata (schema.org/Recipe JSON-LD), matches each ingredient to USDA nutritional data, and builds a per-recipe nutrient profile. Users search for recipes based on their personal nutrient gaps, and Platebreaker ranks results by how well each recipe fills those gaps.

Platebreaker does not reproduce your recipe content. Users see the recipe title, a nutrient summary, and a link. To view the full recipe, they visit your site. The model drives traffic to your pages rather than replacing them.

What You Can Do

The creators portal lets you register domains, verify ownership, and control how Platebreaker interacts with your recipe content.

Registration is straightforward. Add any domain you own to the portal, and you can register multiple domains if you run more than one site. To prove ownership, you add a DNS TXT record. Once verified, you unlock the full set of domain controls. See Domain Verification for the step-by-step process.

After verification you can toggle indexing on or off for each domain. When enabled, Platebreaker indexes your recipe pages and processes their nutritional data. When disabled, no new pages are indexed. You can also toggle whether your recipes appear in search results independently of whether they’re indexed. The indexing frequency is configurable too, from every day to every 90 days, though most sites don’t need anything more frequent than the 30-day default.

You can submit recipes in several ways: your full sitemap, a batch of specific URLs, or individual pages. See Submitting Recipes for details. The portal shows how many of your URLs have been indexed, how many are pending, and when the last run completed.

Getting Started

1. Create a free account at creators.platebreaker.com
2. Register your domain
3. Verify ownership via DNS
4. Submit your sitemap or recipe URLs
5. Monitor indexing progress from the portal

Requirements

Your recipe pages need schema.org/Recipe markup in JSON-LD format. This is the same structured data that Google, Pinterest, and other platforms use to understand recipe content. Most recipe plugins for WordPress, Squarespace, and similar platforms generate this markup automatically. If you’re not sure whether your pages have it, check for a <script type="application/ld+json"> tag in your page source that contains "@type": "Recipe".

Bot & Firewall

Platebreaker’s bot identifies itself as Platebreaker/1.0 in the User-Agent header and respects robots.txt. If your site uses a firewall or WAF (Cloudflare, Wordfence, Sucuri, AWS WAF, etc.), you may need to allow the bot through. See the bot information page for identification details and the firewall allowlisting guide for per-provider instructions.