CURRENTLY PROOFING · BETA
SHIKOMI (SHEE-KOH-MEE) · PREP, PERFECTED

Every great recipe starts a little wrong.

Capture a recipe, cook it, and save your tweaks as versions, so you never lose the one that worked.

The Doughy Corgi kneading dough, keeper jars on the counter
KNEAD № 12 · GETTING CLOSER
THE KEEPER SHELF →
v1
v2
v3 KEEPER
FREE DURING BETA · YOUR DATA EXPORTS ANY TIME
MILK BUNS v3 · KEEPERRAMEN BROTH v3 → v4SOURDOUGH v12 · GETTING CLOSEMISO GLAZE v2 · KEEPER
WHAT “SHIKOMI” MEANS

Named for the quiet work.

In Japanese kitchens, shikomi is the prep done before service: the stocks started, the pickles set, the dough shaped the night before. It's the unglamorous work that makes the meal look effortless. That's what this app is for: the careful, cumulative work between cooks that makes the next one better.

STOP COOKING FROM MEMORY

Your best dish shouldn't be an accident.

Milk Buns v7 · KEEPER ✓
7 VERSIONS · 6 COOKS · 142 DAYS
v1v2v3v4v5v6v7
WHAT CHANGED · v6 → v7
+ tangzhong 8% of flour weight
+ rest 20 min → 35 min
− butter 45g → 38g
TASTING NOTE · JUN 22
“Softest crumb yet. Kids ate five before dinner. This is the one.”
GROCERY & PLANNING

The week's cooks become one list

Pick what you're cooking; Shikomi combines quantities across recipes and groups the aisle walk. 400g butter, once, not four times.

THIS WEEK · 3 RECIPES · 14 ITEMS
Butter · buns + ragù438g ✓Bread flour · buns ×2 batches1.04kgSan Marzano tomatoes · ragù v42 cans
FOR THE FOOD SCIENTISTS
Change one variable. Prove it mattered.
The Lab holds everything else constant: hydration, rest, temperature. So your tasting verdict actually means something.
Enter the Lab →
WHO IT'S FOR

For cooks who take notes.

Sourdough bakers chasing the perfect crumb. Pitmasters logging every cook. Fermenters who think in weeks, not minutes. Recipe developers who need a paper trail. If you've ever scribbled “less sugar next time” in a margin and then lost the margin, Shikomi was built for you.

Sourdough
CHASING CRUMB
BBQ & smoke
LOGGING EVERY COOK
Fermentation
WEEKS, NOT MINUTES
Recipe devs
NEED A PAPER TRAIL
The whole kitchen at work: corgi and panda chefs prepping, baking, and logging recipes
The Doughy Corgi
The beta is open. Bring one recipe.
Shikomi is free while in beta. Pick the recipe you've been chasing longest and start versioning it tonight.
FREE DURING BETA · YOUR DATA EXPORTS ANY TIME
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