Household taste blending · Forkboard Help

Two cooks who eat differently shouldn’t have to barter over dinner every night. On the Family plan, each person in the household keeps their own taste profile, and Forkboard blends all of them into one shared week — every dinner stays safe for the whole table while everyone’s favorite cuisines get a turn across the seven nights.

Several taste profiles flowing into one shared week that stays safe for all. — Everyone’s tastes, one week, safe for the table.

Everyone keeps their own profile

There’s no single shared questionnaire to argue over. Each member edits only their own tastes on the Preferences screen — the cuisines they love, their diet, allergies, and dislikes. The blend updates from everyone’s profiles, so when one person changes their mind, the week follows without anyone touching anyone else’s settings.

Open Settings › Household Taste (web) or the Household Taste screen on the iPhone app to see it come together. “The whole table” shows what every dinner respects across the household; “Who’s at the table” gives one card per member — their loved cuisines, diet, allergies, and dislikes. The view is read-only: it shows how tastes combine, it doesn’t let you edit anyone else’s profile.

How the blend decides

Four kinds of preference combine differently, on purpose, so a bigger household doesn’t collapse into the few meals nobody objects to:

Allergens are a hard union, honored on every tier. If any member is allergic to something, it’s out of every dinner — this is never relaxed and never gated behind a plan.
Diets are strictest-wins and attributed per member, so each named person can eat. Shared dinners are made adaptable rather than flattened to the narrowest common denominator.
Cuisines are spread across the seven nights for fairness — not intersected. Each person’s favorites get their nights, instead of everyone landing on the small overlap they all happen to share.
Soft dislikes are a ranked union: the no-gos named by the most people come first, and the list is capped so a six-seat household can’t end up banning nearly everything.

Kitchen settings — skill, equipment, weeknight and weekend time budgets, units, and servings — are set once for the whole household, not per person. Tastes are personal; the kitchen is shared.

Family plan, and what Free and Solo see

Taste blending is part of the Family plan. On Free or Solo, the Household Taste view shows an Upgrade to Family teaser instead of the blend. A single-member household plans from one profile — the same planning, just without anyone else to blend in — so nothing about your week changes until a second person joins.