Built in a variety of different designs, holders for books or pages of recipes offer valuable kitchen assistance to those using printed instructions when preparing foods. With the use of a Cookbook or Recipe Holder, printed pages of recipes can be placed in a slanted vertical position, taking up a minimum of space on the counter so food ingredients are kept from easily spilling on the pages of materials as they are read.
Plastic, wood, metal, and glass are common materials formed into holders for use to keep recipes and instructions upright and readily visible. Some models of holders have a glass pane that can be used as either a means to support individual pages of paper on the pane or for placing in front of pages to protect from bits of ingredients accidentally splashed about.