Holiday Cooking Applications: iPad in the Kitchen
09 Nov 2011 | Apps | Ali Gorelova on Google+
The kitchen has become one area where iPads truly shine. It’s not difficult to place this device somewhere out of the way and cook consulting its cooking applications.
If you don’t want your iPad to rest between roasting pans and measuring cups, you can print recipes as some apps support this function. Surely, you can continue using old methods and cook holiday meals flipping pages of a cookbook or running back and forth to your computer to look up a recipe… After you gave your iOS tablet computer a try.
There are a lot of excellent cooking apps. We’ll try to prove to you that the iPad can become your sous chef and you’ll rule the kitchen when you have some of these holiday cooking applications installed.
1. Christmas Food can inspire you cook tasty and delicious meals for Christmas. This app is a magazine available for $5.99 on the App Store. Developers assure that it includes recipes for the whole festive season. All recipes were tested in the Good Food kitchen.
Each recipe is supported by food photographs which you can view both vertically and horizontally.
Christmas Food for iPad offers 9 turkey recipes, tips and tricks for cooking beef, goose and other meat, ideas for creating mince pies and even drinks and meals for the New Year party. You can bookmark recipes you like the most and easily access them any time you want.
This application with 100+ recipes can be installed on any iPad as it requires iOS 3.2 or later.
2. Baking with Dorie is not just an ordinary cookbook. This $7.99 app is huge. It includes lessons on how to bake and over 100 HD videos with Dorie Greenspan so it will take some time to download.
Dorie isAmerica’s baker who was called “a culinary guru” by the New York Times. Her app is a fun baking course with step by step instructions from your best friend in the kitchen. She shares a lot of secrets she has learned from some of the best chefs in the world.
Videos are part of this top-quality cookbook. There is a video carousel that allows you skipping steps that you already know. There is not need for Internet connection when you watch videos as they are included in the iPad application.
Baking with Dorie will teach you how to bake like a pro if you are patient to download this 1.79 GB cooking app that requires iOS 4.0 or later.
3. Jamie’s Recipes is absolutely free to download. However its content packs should be paid for. Some people think it’s cheaper to purchase a copy of this cookbook at a bookstore. Some people agree to spend additional $10 on extra recipes while others simply enjoy the free version with 10 free recipes and 3 videos.
Jamie’s recipes include photos and a shopping list that makes it easy to shop for ingredients as you can cross off those items you’ve already bought.
The app is available in English and German. To run it, your iPad has to have iOS 4.3 or later.
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