Introduction
How to Cook Everything by Culinate, Inc. is a great Food & Drink app that will teach you how to – well, cook everything. It was updated July 2, 2013, and requires 50MB of storage space on your device. It’s normally $9.99 but on sale right now. It’s currently the #1 iPhone app in the iTunes App Store!
User Experience
This app is absolutely full of features that you’re going to love and use all the time.
When you launch the app for the first time, it takes a few seconds to index the recipes. This only happens the first time, so don’t worry.
The home screen offers five buttons along the bottom: Home, Search, Favorites, Shop, and More. In addition to that, in the middle of the screen you will see your main choices for the home page: Browse Recipes, Kitchen Basics, Bittman’s Picks, Most Popular, Featured Recipes, and Summer Grilling.
The user interface is intuitive and easy to navigate. The recipes are well laid-out and offer three different screens that you use tabs to navigate: Overview, Ingredients, and Steps. Some recipes feature a fourth tab, with Variations.
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Features
As mentioned, this app is full of features. There are more than 2,000 recipes, 400 how-to illustrations, and more. You get everything you get in the book by Mark Bittman, plus more. You can bookmark certain steps, convert quantities and temperatures, use the built-in timers, and add your own notes to recipes.
You can print off recipes, and email friends up to 10 recipes a month.
There are so many more features it’s impossible to list them all here.
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In-App Purchases
There are no in-app purchases.
Update Info
How to Cook Everything is running on Version 1.9.7. The latest update introduced a standard system interface for Facebook and Twitter sharing and changed the device requirements to iOS 5.0.
Customer Ratings and Feedback Comments
The current version of the app has 428 customer ratings with an average of 4.5 out of five stars. Feedback comments are all positive.
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Personal Comments by Reviewer
This is a great app. I can’t believe it’s free! If you love to cook, or want to learn how to make fantastic meals, then you need to download this app fast before the price goes back up!
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Pros and Cons
Pros
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Lots of features
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More than 2,000 recipes
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400 photos
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Built-in timer
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Grocery List
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Ability to email friends your favorite recipes
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Can print off recipes
Cons
For: iPhone, iPod touch, iPad with iOS 5.0 or later.