![]() I'd just like some way to bulk import my current database into it and I'd likely use it more frequently than my current desktop app (SousChef). Overall I very much appreciate the simplicity of the app. Also when creating a recipe, consider auto-selecting the default recipe name for easy deletion as well as defaulting the category to the currently selected category rather than "Uncategorized". You have to manually dismiss the keyboard in order to see them. When creating a recipe in landscape mode, the keyboard hides a couple of the fields in the modal panel. Certain recipes have multiple concurrent groups of steps, so the solution would either have to be perfect or free-form would be better. Some sort of auto-numbering for the preparation steps field would be nice, but I do understand this is non-trivial. When entering the recipe name consider changing the autocapitalizationType property on that text field to UITextAutocapitalizationTypeWords. I've been toying with it a bit today, and it's definitely the best recipe manager I've tried out on the iPad. I'd definitely use it the benefit from shuffling around a virtual inventory for a few minutes would pay for the experience to eat something different/new, rather than settling for the same-old. I'm not sure if that's true of everyone, but if it is, an easy-to-use inventory management system like/similar to what I described might work out good. But my hunch is that most people likely buy the same stuff over the course of a month or two. ![]() This wouldn't work so well for someone who has a high-turnover of ingredients, and buys a fairly large variety of different stuff. You could also mark an ingredient as "rare", and tell the app not to save if for later in your history. ![]() Initially populating that list would be time-consuming, but afterwords it would be fairly easy to keep things updated. It would end up being a general list of all the food you "usually" buy. Ideally you could add/remove stuff from your food history. Drag/drop food to/from here into your kitchen, and suddenly you have a visual inventory management system that isn't just some giant cumbersome UITableView. There's also a side-bar shelf, your "food history". This is what you have now, and you can drag/drop food into your kitchen. There's a picture of your kitchen (fridge/shelf) with food icons sitting in it. When you load it up it displays foods as icons. The app keeps a history of food you've entered into it already. In a nutshell, having to re-enter everything every time would be tedious. And of course things do run out as the week progresses. There are others which I buy occasionally but don't always have. Generally, I tend to have certain ingredients always-on-hand. General advice for someone as ignorant as myself as to what to "always have" in the kitchen. Taking that idea a bit further, it would also be nice to have suggestions of food/equipment to buy in the near future, which would increase the number of recipe's one could prepare.įor example "If you buy a rice steamer, you'll increase the number of "right now" recipe's by 25%, and you'll be able to cook things such as steamed asparagus and steamed salmon." Etc. )įor a single someone like me whose not a foodie, wants some variety in meals, and is rushed for time on occasion, a recipe app that listed only what I can make "right now" would be really really nice to have. Whole Food's app felt like a giant advertisement just to buy the most expensive ingredients at their store. Don't have a pressure cooker? Out of luck yet again. Epicurious "kind-of" lets you select main ingredients, but you damn well have the kitchen of a chef, stocked up nicely with basil leaves and minced thyme to cook much of anything. select them (fruits/veggies), scanning bar-codes would be really nice but not 100% necessary).Ģ) Let me list what cooking equipment I have.ģ) The app returns "ONLY" recipe's I can make given what I have in my kitchen.Ĭurrently the recipe apps I've tried (Epicurious, Whole Foods's app) don't do this. Then I look at the recipe list, realize I'm missing like 3 or 4 things on the list, get disappointed since I don't have the time to go to the grocery store, and then go and cook something else.ġ) Let me list every food item I have in my kitchen (e.g. I haven't looked at your app yet, so I'm assuming it doesn't have this feature described below (I haven't seen it yet in any recipe app yet - if yours has it I'm buying it immediately! :) ).īasically, whenever I want to cook something new, I look for a recipe in an app/online and find something that looks really good.
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