iPad Cooking Apps

[Marky]

Hey all,

I'm looking to become a Jamie Oliver in the kitchen... Or at least broaden my knowledge of cooking

Any recommended apps for the iPad for recipes that are explained well (With pics or videos where possible)?

Thanks,

Marky

 

[Glaucus]

Food gawker website/app is good as it harvests from all the cooking blogs. But generaly not a huge amount of photos, but all have at least one photo.

http://foodgawker.com/

 

[glitch]

I'm looking to become a Jamie Oliver in the kitchen...

The JO Apps are generally very well made, but they get very expensive, very quickly.

Jamie's Recipes is the best of the bunch and has plenty of excellent recipes, along with videos, fantastic photography and a general feel of quality about the whole thing. You'll get your money's worth out of it if you like Jamie's work, but his style isn't for everyone.

Apart from that, well, choices are limited. It's so expensive and time-consuming to produce videos for a dedicated App that most rehash generic stuff or just don't bother at all.

The general cooking/recipe Apps that seem to get recommended on a regular basis are things like Epicurous, BigOven, Allrecipes, etc. None of which I'd even bother with myself, but your mileage may vary.

However, there are some excellent magazines that are crammed with fantastic recipes, so all is not lost - and these I would recommend.

The Lakeland and Co-op magazines are free and well worth downloading, and both feature some small video recipes and sme stunning photography amongst the adverts for both shops

On the paid App front, BBC Good Food and Olive are the pick of the bunch, although video is somewhat thin on the ground in both, but the rest of the content more than makes up for that.

Delicious Magazine are apparently working on their own App, which should be right up there with Good Food and Olive, but it seems to be stuck in development hell as they've been working on it for what seems like ages.

 

[mr.sly]

I'm a little bias as my friend makes it but the Jamie Oliver Recipes app is really good.

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/jamies-recipes/id398011800?mt=8&affId=1716455&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Free download with a few recipes to start with. Then you download paid recipe packs when you want some more. Definitely worth trying out for free.

 

[mac1]

Have a look at paprika, it's a recipe manager rather than anything else but works with most of the big cooking websites. One of my most used apps.

 

[Marky]

Thanks for the suggestions I'll have to check them out. I didn't even realise Jamie Oliver had his own app - Just tried it - Very impressive! But expensive