Cooking Basics app for iPhone and iPad
4.0 (
5120 ratings )
Book
Food & Drink
Developer:
Culinate, Inc.
7.99 USD
Current version:
1.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 24 Apr 2013
App size: 270.39 Mb
••• With its easy-to-follow, photo-illustrated recipes and tips, this app will increase anyones confidence in the kitchen. Makes a great gift too! •••
Cooking Basics brings an innovative way to learn essential skills and recipes for making great food. With 1,000 photos, 185 recipes, and audio and video tips from New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, its like having him in the kitchen with you!
Developed from the bestselling book How to Cook Everything® The Basics, it’s perfect for anyone who wants to cook with more confidence and a great companion to the entire family of Bittman’s books and apps.
The Content:
• Simple, straightforward, and gorgeously photographed recipes.
• An intuitive learn-as-you-go layout that allows you to pull up how-to demonstrations that expand on techniques used in the recipe.
• Tap-activated audio commentary from Mark.
• Ground-breaking, self-guided classes—each introduced with a video from Mark—that teach kitchen skills by exploring recipes in depth so you can eat while you learn. Classes are available only when the app is run on an iPad.
• A Basics section with easy-to-access reference that simplifies topics like setting up your pantry and buying and storing seafood.
• A Skills visual index linking to hundreds of demonstrations of core techniques such as “Preparing Chiles,” “Grinding Meat,” and “Crimping the Pie Shut.”
• Extensive linking, making navigation intuitive, whether you’re searching for something specific, or just browsing.
The Features:
• The ability to make your own recipe notes and take and add photos as you cook, and then share them with friends via Twitter or Facebook.
• A convenient Constant On setting to keep your iPad screen from dimming while you’re working.
• Built-in, step-specific bookmarks and timers to help keep you on track.
• A Favorites folder to organize recipes for later access.
• Customizable shopping lists to make preparation a snap.
• Beyond the Basics links after every recipe that connect you to related dishes in other How to Cook Everything apps.
• Fully downloadable! Like all of the How to Cook Everything apps, Cooking Basics can be used anywhere, anytime, online or offline.
Reaction to How to Cook Everything The Basics:
“Mark Bittman has removed the last obstacle to simply great home cooking by including a foolproof, visual, and photographic follow-along component to all the basics. The result is a virtual preface to his seminal How to Cook Everything series.”
— Mario Batali, Chef, author, and restaurateur
“Before you can cook well you need to learn the basics. Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything The Basics will make you a better cook.”
— Tom Colicchio, Chef and owner of Craft Restaurants
“Had Mark published this book earlier, I would not have had to go to culinary school. This is a comprehensive guide to making delicious food.”
— David Chang, Chef/owner of the Momofuku restaurants, coauthor of Momofuku, and creator of Lucky Peach
Pros and cons of Cooking Basics app for iPhone and iPad
Cooking Basics app good for
As a beginner cook myself, having this handy on my iPad for tips, tricks and just direction in general is just perfect. Cant wait to start cooking and surprising my counterpart :)
I love this cook book but my daughter moved away to school and took it with her. I really missed it so just as I was about to fork out $40 to buy a new one I found this app for my ipad. Its everything the book is plus way more!!! Its more than just recipes. It teaches all the basic food preparations and cooking techniques you need to know to prepare all types of food. I love the class and tip videos throughout. The photos are beautifully done and not only show the final prepared dish but there are step-by-step photos also. You can make your grocery list and keep additional notes and photos. If you are new to cooking, it is a must-have but even veteran cooks will find it informative and useful. Definitely worth the $10!
I dont normally write app reviews, but
if theres any more good I could do for the authors and creators of this app aside from buying it, it is through writing this.
This app is one of the few out there that can actually teach you a new skill from scratch.
The only recipe I knew before buying this was making coffee lol. This book/app gave me all the confidence I need to know my way around the kitchen and really includes, like the title states, the basics. I never thought that cooking would become a favourite pass time.
When something says basic in the title, believe me, its basic, if you already have a solid foundation and know some what how to cook then this app is basically obsolete.
Lots of useful information, clearly and concisely presented. The interface takes some getting used to, but its worth it.
Some bad moments
Every time I search anything on this program it crashes. Is unusable on my iPad 9.7 Pro. Used to work well on my old iPad 3rd gen. and I used to like it.
Eye-popping pictures, so many great recipes, and loaded with useful features. Love the built in timer. Also, an easy way to transmit that "pick up on the way home list" that I can actually read.
The Cooking Basics app has striking photos & graphics and is super easy to navigate. It is a great reference tool for delicious recipes and step by step techniques. My favorite features are the shopping list, notes and photos (Im always writing in my cookbooks and now I an add photos) and especially the timer built into the recipes. The classes are a bonus you dont get with the book. Great app. Highly recommended.
Beaut
This is perfect for anyone who loves to cook or wants to learn. This is so organized and can be used in a way that a book never could. Feels like a class, convenient shopping experience (with shopping lists to create or delete by recipe), and an incredible visual and taste experience all in one. Great purchase!
I have the latest 128GB iPad and this app is refusing to work. It automatically exits. I have removed and reinstalled it several times and it still refuses to work. Kindly fix this bug immediately.
This is a wonderful app. This has has something for everyone. These a ton of knowledge packed in here. I wish I had this when I was just learning to cook!
