A Unix shell for the kitchen.

sudo season dinner

Password:

Adding salt...

Dinner improved successfully.

Real recipes written as shell scripts, manual pages for ingredients, a weekly command, and incident reports for everything that caught fire. The recipes work. The commands do not.

cook@saltbash:~$ kitchen terminal

cook@saltbash:~$ man salt

SALT(1) SaltBash Kitchen Manual

NAME

salt - improve food

SYNOPSIS

salt [OPTION]... [DISH]

DESCRIPTION

Makes almost everything better. salt makes food taste more like itself: it suppresses bitterness, rounds out sweetness, and turns flat food into food someone meant to make.

BUGS

Difficult to undo. salt has no inverse operation.

Full page: man/salt

# This terminal takes commands when JavaScript is on. Everything it knows is also on the pages below.

ls -lt recipes/

# Shell Recipes. Real recipes, written as scripts, with a plain-English version on every page.

All 9 recipes

man -k .

# Manual pages for ingredients and techniques. Read the BUGS section.

cat weekly/latest

# Command of the Week, September 28, 2026.

clean --as-you-go

Garbage collection, but for pans.

Fill the sink with hot soapy water before you start cooking. Tools go straight in when you are done with them.

Previous commands

tail -n 4 /var/log/kitchen.log

# Kitchen Incidents, written up as blameless postmortems.

Full incident log

head CHANGELOG

# Release Notes. What changed in the kitchen this week.

5.0.0 "Gourd Mode" 2026-10-01

Major release. Autumn is now enabled by default. Read the breaking changes before upgrading.

3 breaking changes, 3 added, 1 changed, 1 removed, 2 known issues

All releases

# A Unix shell for the kitchen.

cook@saltbash:~$ kitchen terminal

$ ls -lt recipes/

$ man -k .

$ cat weekly/latest

$ tail -n 4 /var/log/kitchen.log