App-etising platter!
Looking to rustle up something yummy and healthy, but clueless
about kitchen basics?
Fret not! There are plenty of apps on your smart phone to help you sail through
Fret not! There are plenty of apps on your smart phone to help you sail through
BIG
OVEN
Category: Recipe; Available on: Android, iOS,
Windows; Cost: Free With over 350,000 recipes and counting, this is one of the
most popular recipe apps that home cooks can use. It was adjudged as one of the
`Best Apps for Foodies', `Best Apps for New Moms', and `Best Apps for Eating
In' by PC Magazine, TIME Magazine; The Huffington Post ranked this app as
`Readers' Choice', `Best Recipe App' from 2011-2013.Big Oven helps cooks to
find inspiration, and has recipes with ingredients that are n season. It also has
recipes depending on lifestyle and diet choices. Other features include helping
one get organised in the kitchen, making grocery lists, planning menus and
using up leftovers.What more do you need?
LUNCH
BOX
Category: Lunchbox recipesIndian; Available on:
Android; Cost: Paid for in-app purchases This one is for all those with
school-going kids. Packing a lunch box is nothing short of an uphill task, as
children tend to be fussy about food. The Lunch Box app provides some tasty,
filling and healthy ideas. One of the highest-rated apps (4.6), all the recipes
in here have a preparation time of just 15-30 minutes. It also has various
cuisines to choose from Italian, North Indian, South Indian, Fusion etc., and
gives you an option to `favourite' the recipes you try frequently.
SIMPLY
ORGANIC
Category: Organic food; Available on: iOS; Cost:
Free The Simply Organic app helps you learn how to cook over 1,000 natural,
organic recipes. Making use of the high-resolution screen and gorgeous
photography, this app is kept up-to-date with weekly spe cials, informative
articles related to organic food, and has a fresh new take on traditional
recipes too! What's more, the content is all usergenerated, w h i c h means one
gets to upload their o w n recipes on the app, with an option for tips and
tricks. There is a week ly meal planner, which will save a lot of time. It also
shows the nutri tional value of each recipe.
SNAP
GUIDE
Category: Kitchen hacks; Available on: iOS,
Android; Cost: Free Ranging from jewellery-making and tech to DIY clothing and
of course, cooking, the Snap Guide operates on guides (both video and photos),
useful tips and tricks and hacks that one can use to make cooking -and the
cleaning up afterwards -easier and more organised. The guide has picture representations
that will demonstrate how the hack works perfectly. They might not be
sophisticated, but their utilitarian qualities are almost unmatched. Users also
have the option of creating their own guides to useful
hacks, across any category.
THE
PHOTO COOKBOOK BAKING
C a t e g o r y : DessertBaking app; Available
on: iOS; Cost: Paid This is a one-stop shop for all things you want to bake.The
Photo Cookbook Baking app is divided into four chapters -Cakes & Traybakes,
Pastries, Small Cakes and Cookies and Breads -making it eas ier for the user to
plan. Additionally, each category has over a 100 recipes, which are displayed
stepby-step, aided by high resolution photographs. The search function, option
to add your own notes to various recipes to customise them and the ability to
email to the user the list of ingredients needed, make this app popular even
among amateurs.
Celebrity
chefs and their apps
Celebrity chefs are not far behind when it comes
to making their recipes accessible to a wide audience. The most popular among
the top chefs are Jamie Oliver's (top) 20-Minute Meals simply because the
recipes are easy to follow and take very little time. Nigella Lawson may have
only 10 videos and 100 recipes on her app Nigellissima, but the app is still
popular among budding chefs and amateurs. Plus, the app has a voice control
feature, which means you won't have to use your sticky fingers to scroll
through the recipe while cooking! The bad boy of the culinary world, Gordon
Ramsay, too has a popular app called Cook with Me. It has 56 recipes, each
demonstrated with HD videos.
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