Recipes and tips: 11 useful culinary applications
Sasha Savina
Thick cookbooks, like the tradition of writing interesting recipes in a special notebook or notebook, it is gradually becoming a thing of the past - applications for smartphones take their place. We talk about eleven culinary applications that teach you to understand the products and make the cooking process easier and more exciting.
We have already talked about the SORTED Food YouTube channel created by four Britons, and now we advise you to pay attention to the application of the same name. In the program you can find more than 700 step-by-step recipes, many of them are also shot on video. Users can upload recipes to the application themselves, look at what others have downloaded, and subscribe to their favorite recipe authors (to better understand who they’re targeting, you can look at the profiles of each of them, which foods and dishes they like and which do not) the result is an impressive library of dishes for various occasions. In the account of the authors themselves SORTED you can find almost a thousand recipes, including the perfect cheeseburger, lobster rolls, potato waffles, shrimp with coconut, stuffed onions and cake in the shape of the Superman logo. Like the recipes you can save yourself.
Everyone seems to know about the “Poster-Food”, but this is not the only good Russian-language culinary application. Food and Feed is the new version of the Bon App. The main thing in the preparation of any dish, the authors consider inspiration, and the application itself is called “the glossy magazine in the world of ascetic culinary dictionaries” - so much attention is paid here to beautiful pictures of food. Food and Feed have a convenient and nice looking interface and, according to the creators, more than 10 thousand step-by-step recipes. You can simply scroll through the app by choosing a recipe by picture, or you can search for a specific dish by name or ingredients. If you type in the name of the ingredient in the search bar, the application offers to see the recipes that match the request in different categories. They are fairly standard - there are, for example, salads, soups, hot and snacks. Liked recipes, you can put likes, you can add them to your favorites, and you can mark them as cooked, so as not to forget. Links to recipes can be sent to friends on social networks or via instant messengers.
Most of the design of this application is reminiscent of instagram: recipes are issued in the form of a tape, you can put likes and leave comments. Clicking on the ingredient of one of the recipes, you can learn more about it - including its nutritional value, types and methods of use in cooking. You can subscribe to the accounts of the authors of your favorite recipes, and interesting dishes can be added to your recipe book. Also in Patee. There is a section with recommendations: here you can find thematic collections ("Children's Birthday", "Lenten Recipes") and dishes, divided into categories. Some recipes have video tutorials.
Immediately make a reservation, most of the recipes are available only to users with a premium subscription: 12 months of full access to all recipes will cost 459 rubles, and an unlimited subscription - 699 rubles. You can subscribe to a shorter time - a day (15 rubles), a month (149 rubles) and six months (299 rubles).
This list would be incomplete without Jamie Oliver's culinary app. The chef and presenter have several proprietary applications, the most popular among them is Jamie Oliver's Recipes. Every week for free you get access to 15 new recipes; In addition, the application can add the necessary products to the shopping list. In order to get access to all the recipes of Oliver, you will have to pay extra: Jamie Oliver's Ultimate Recipes will cost 529 rubles in the Russian App Store.
Interesting (albeit, often non-free) culinary applications can be found in other famous chefs - for example, Nigela Lawson, Gordon Ramsay and Julia Vysotskaya.
Another nice and convenient library of recipes, some of which are loaded by editors, and some - by users. The application is Russified, but not fully translated into Russian: the recipes themselves, for example, are published in most cases in English, so knowledge of the language is indispensable. The rest is very convenient: the recipes are divided into categories (for example, "Meals in 20 minutes", "Comfort food", "Dinner in the middle of the week"), instructions are given step by step, supplemented with photos, and sometimes video; also indicated the approximate time that will have to spend on cooking. In addition, there is a section with video instructions: here you can find both simple tips for novice chefs (how to boil an egg, how to make cutlets, how to blanch) and video recipes (how to make the perfect steak, make homemade mayonnaise, etc.). Favorite recipes can be saved in the cookbook, and the missing ingredients can be added to the shopping list.
Appendix The New York Times, in which more than 17 thousand recipes. You can search for dishes by keywords and tags (searching for a lot of tags to help you find what you like, including the type of cuisine, the type of dish, and the author of the recipe), or you can use editorial selections. In the latter, there are recipes from regular New York Times culinary writers, such as Melissa Clark and the same Nigel Lawson, Julia Child's classic recipes, dishes that are easy to cook with children, unusual sandwiches, and more. The application also has a selection of basic (and not so) text-based cooking guides prepared by the authors of the publication: for example, how to properly handle a knife, how to coat a cake with icing and how to make pizza, burgers and pancakes.
Meals that you cooked yourself can be ticked "Cooked", so as not to lose, and your favorite recipes - save to the cookbook or add to your own collections - very convenient if you, for example, are planning a gala dinner.
Not free, but useful application with vegetarian recipes, which is useful to those who eat meat and just want to diversify their diet. Recipes, unfortunately, are given without step-by-step photos - but there is an opportunity to celebrate each step of cooking as it is done. In addition, at the end of the recipe, the authors give useful tips. The application is available in several languages: English, German, Spanish, French and Italian (though there is no Russian). In addition, it is possible to set up a filter and leave only dishes suitable for vegans, or dishes without gluten. Unfortunately, the application does not have a version for Android - but you can always read the culinary blog of its creators and authors, or find an analogue on Google Play.
This application will teach you to choose the best fruits and vegetables. In Perfect Produce you can find a long list of products with recommendations on what to focus on when choosing them. For example, the authors of the application advise you to choose solid avocados, which, nevertheless, can be easily pressed (although you should not squeeze avocados strongly, so as not to damage them). In addition, here you can find information about the nutrients that are contained in fruits and vegetables, and many recipes, where they serve as the main ingredient.
The application is useful to those who carefully monitor their diet: it is possible to look for a suitable ingredient for the dish on the nutrients that it contains. Perfect Produce also helps to calculate how much fruits and vegetables you need to eat to meet the daily intake of a particular substance: each product has an RDA - recommended dietary allowance mark, that is, the recommended intake rate.
Kitchen Calculator PRO
Ios: 229 rub.
An indispensable application for those who prepare according to foreign recipes and do not understand how, for example, to convert American "cups" into grams. Kitchen Calculator PRO converts one unit of measure to another - moreover, you can choose both table and teaspoons as a unit of measure. In this case, the calculator takes into account all the nuances (for example, that a cup of sugar and a cup of rice have different weights): when recalculating, you need to specify the ingredient itself. If the ingredients that are already marked in the application, you do not have enough, you can add your own. The app also helps calculate ingredients for the right amount of servings.
In the Substitutions application, as you can easily guess from the name, you can find a long list of ingredients and what they can be replaced without harming the dish. It is useful, for example, for those who already in the process of cooking understand that there is no necessary product at home or, for example, wants to know how to replace the ingredient that he is allergic to. Products can be viewed in a list or by category (Baking and Cooking, Seafood and Meat, and others) - the list of substitutes for allergy sufferers and the list that adapts dishes for vegans are especially useful. True, it is necessary to consciously approach the Substitutions advice: there are no completely interchangeable products, so you have to figure out for yourself how the replacement will affect the taste of the dish.
The Baristame - Coffee Guide app will teach you about coffee: here you can find information about different espresso-based coffee drinks, tips on how to brew a drink in different ways, as well as basic information about coffee in general - countries where beans are grown, roasting methods and grinding and much more. In addition, the application has step-by-step instructions for each method of making coffee, a calculator that calculates how much coffee beans and how much water is needed to make a drink, and a timer. The PRO-version of the application without advertising will cost 30 rubles.