Using technology in the kitchen seems like a dangerous task. Kitchens are places where liquids are used often, and in the past, computers have been rather large and have taken up valuable counter space.
But with the super-slim design of the iPad, bringing high-tech to the Kitchen is now easy, and totally practical. And app developers have noticed and created some very cool apps to help you create culinary creations. Here's five of my favourite then, with observations (both good and bad) about the apps.
AllRecipies.com - 2.99
- Awesome scroll selector system
- Free version ad supported
- nutritional information available
- Pro version with additional features
- User based recipe reviews and comments
- Email a recipe feature only sends the link to the recipe on the website, not the whole recipe
- Links open browser to the website, but on a iPhone browser the website displays tiny and almost unreadable
- one of the most popular apps
- some recipes have thousands of comments / reviews
Big Oven - Free
- Some features require web account (Free)
- 170,000+ recipes
- Pro membership $ 16.00 / year offers additional features
- Highly usable in the free mode
- Grocery list
- Free version ties with the website extension
- set up / laid out like a cookbook
- meant to be used on the counter while cooking
- email recipe to yourself
- Requires Internet Connection
Food & Wine - Free
- Monthly Magazine
- in app purchase 1.99 gets you this month's issue
- delay between old and current issue.
- Give old ones issue for free
- No caloric information
- Friendly help guide
- Internet connection required for video & ordering
The Photo Cookbook - $4.99
- like the ability to email recipes to yourself
- a good beginners cookbook
- Simple / friendly cookbook layout
- not a lot of recipes
- extremely visual -designed with the iPad in mind
The Betty Crocker Cookbook for iPad - Free
Nice friendly book from Betty Crocker’s kitchen.
- Smart recipe search
- Search by ingredient
- Great photos
- Email recipes
Honourable Mentions
Though we usually only do five in these ‘Top 5’ posts, here’s a few more that I use occasionally, for specific reasons:
Intelligencia - Free
- example of a commercial promotional app
- detail of coffee and blends they sell
- coffee brew timer and coffee prep. instructions
- Partially complete -- content lacking.
- Instructions for brewing
The Food Network - 1.99
- Free vers avail.
- Scaled up from iPhone, will run on iPad
- Recipes tie in with a particular host and episode
- TV network ad while navigating the recipes
- frequent loads from online database
- Requires Internet connection
Martha Stewart Makes Cookies - 4.99
- Big friendly presentation
- Excellent images
- Built in timer
- has some crashing issues
- helpful videos
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