Allrecipes Video Cookbook for iPad app review: explore the tasty offerings

Allrecipes Video Cookbook

Price: Free

Allrecipes Video Cookbook by All Recipes, Inc. brings you a huge selection of meal ideas using video instructions.

Rather than just read a recipe and guess on technique and how the dish should look, this iPad app brings to the recipe for life for you by using video instructions. This is a virtual cookbook of recipe videos all professionally produced and resulting in exceptional and mouth-watering dishes.

All the recipe videos have been organized by category so you can easily find a dish. Search for dinners, lunches, appetizers, or any other meal/course. Each video will take you through the recipe step-by-step and you can pause, skip, and rewind at any point. During the video a list of ingredients will be shown along the side so you can easily see what you need on hand.

Features include a user rating system of the videos, clear display of cook and preparation time, expanded view options, nutritional information on the recipes, and directions that have been synced with the video itself.

If you're looking for some new ideas to impress your friends and family with be sure to check out the Featured Recipes section of the app.

Allrecipes Video Cookbook was released on Nov. 9, 2012 and currently has 62 customer ratings with an average rating of four out of five stars.

I love a good recipe app and this one took the usual offering and expanded on it by giving you video instructions instead. The videos felt complete and informative, doing a concise job of walking you through all the steps.

For: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation), and iPad with iOS 4.3 or later.