The Wannabe Cook
The Wannabe Cook calls itself a mindful spice brand, with Bengali and everyday recipes built around whole spices. Its website, thewannabecook.com, is built on Hiveku and has been served by Hiveku since 2 October 2026.
- On Hiveku since October 2026
About The Wannabe Cook
- Industry
- Recipes and spices
- Website
- thewannabecook.com
The brand shares recipes, kitchen tips and stories that invite people to slow down and savor the process of cooking. Its shop offers whole-spice boxes, bundles and guided ebooks. The site describes itself as a home for people who see cooking as a way to stay connected to where they came from.
What the site does
On a desktop screen the homepage is a single view that links to recipes, the spice box, kitchen tips and the community, with a Kitchen Radio playlist. The recipe index lists 395 recipes that visitors can sort, filter by category and search. A resource center offers a glossary, substitutions and measurements, and visitors can join the newsletter or send a message through the contact form.
Recipe index
Lists 395 recipes with sorting, category filters (from Bengali fish to desserts) and a search box.
One-screen desktop homepage
On a desktop screen the homepage is a single view that links to curry methods, a glossary, substitutions, weights and measurements, the spice box, the cookbook, kitchen tips and the community.
Kitchen Radio
An embedded Spotify playlist on the homepage.
Resource center and Bengali cooking guides
A glossary, common substitutions, weights and measurements, a kitchen tips blog and curry method guides.
Shop pages
Product pages for guided ebooks, an 8 Whole Spice Box and bundles, with prices and Add to Cart buttons; the store policy pages are on shop.thewannabecook.com.
Newsletter and free spice guide
A sign-up for weekly whole-spice tips and journaling prompts, and a Free Goodies page with a free spice guide.
Contact form
Name, email, subject and message.
Mobile tab bar
On phones, a bar at the bottom of the screen links to Home, Recipes, Spices and Explore.
How Hiveku helps
What Hiveku does for The Wannabe Cook's site, as anyone can check on the live site.
Built and hosted on Hiveku
The site is built and hosted on Hiveku as a Next.js application and served over HTTPS.
Forms connected to Hiveku
The contact form uses Hiveku's spam trap.
Hiveku's form capture sends each completed message to Hiveku.
Also on the site
Cookie consent
Hiveku's cookie banner lets visitors accept or decline optional cookies.
The Hiveku screens on this page use sample data. They show the features, not The Wannabe Cook's account.
The numbers
Measured on the live homepage on October 15, 2026.
- First byte
- 240 ms
- The server's first response
- First content
- 452 ms
- First text or image on screen
- Largest content
- 1.59 s
- The biggest element drawn
- Page weight
- 5.4 MB
- Homepage, analytics not counted
- HTTPS
- Yes
- Phone screen
- Fits
- 390 px wide, no sideways scrolling
- Sitemap
- 467
- URLs listed in sitemap.xml
In words
Measured on 15 October 2026 as the median of three desktop loads, the homepage's first byte arrived in 240 ms, first content appeared at 452 ms and the largest element at 1588 ms. The homepage transferred about 5.4 MB in 78 requests. At 390 pixels wide the page fits the screen with no sideways scrolling. The site publishes a sitemap.xml listing 467 URLs and a robots.txt that points to it.
Measured by Hiveku on October 15, 2026: the homepage loaded 3 times in a desktop browser (1440 x 900, empty cache, no network throttling) with analytics and tracking scripts blocked. Each time is the median of those loads. The phone check used a 390 x 844 screen.
Hosting
- Domain on Hiveku since
- October 2, 2026
- Built and hosted on
- Hiveku
The site, page by page
Captured on October 15, 2026. Click any picture to see it larger.
Where these facts come from
Every sentence on this page comes from The Wannabe Cook's public website, from Hiveku's hosting records (the date the domain was connected and whether the site moved from Webflow), or from Hiveku's own check of the live site on October 15, 2026. Nothing comes from inside The Wannabe Cook's Hiveku account.
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