If you love to cook you likely understand its gone digital. Gone are your mom or grandma’s days of cooking where you had a collection of cookbooks and recipes handwritten. Instead, cooking is made more fun and exciting with the use of technology, including mobile apps.
Here are 5 really great cooking-centric mobile apps:
1. Eating Well “Healthy in a Hurry” App: This iPhone app is a great option for moms who are busy but still want to ensure their family is eating meals that are wholesome and nutritious. The Healthy in a Hurry App offers hundreds of recipes that are not only easy and fast to make, but that have also been first made in the Eating Well test kitchen. You don’t have to download the recipes to access them since they’re preloaded and the app has beautiful photography that enhances the recipe search and cooking experiences. You can filter your results by things like individual ingredients or by category.
2. The Cook App: This app is dubbed the “world’s cookbook” by its creators. You really create a true cookbook within the app where you can customize your cover, add your own recipes, family recipes, tips and tricks. You can either type up recipes or take a quick photo of the original version. There are also social elements of The Cook App so you can make your recipes available to the public or share them with friends and family.
3. Tomatoes: Tomatoes is a great app for organizing your grocery and shopping lists and also for saving money spent at the grocery store. Tomatoes is useful because it’s a multipurpose app that lets you organize not just your food and spending but really everything in your life.
4. Appetites: Appetites is a great app if you love learning how to make new recipes. The app is full of not only recipes but also instructional videos, and what’s really interesting is that you can use the app to order ingredients to make particular recipes and everything will be delivered right to your door the next day. The app breaks down how much the recipe will cost per person and there are also lists of pantry ingredients, like salt, pepper and olive oil, which most people already have so they’re not included in the food order unless you want them to be.
5. Big Oven: Big Oven is a very popular recipe and cooking app primarily because of the sheer volume of recipes it gives you access to—more than 350,000. Not only is there a large amount of recipes but you can also organize your recipes in creative ways as well as your grocery list, and you can create customized at-home menus. Recipes range from quick and easy to more complex and you can search using options like editor’s picks and also by finding the top-rated recipes from other community members.
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