The comfort of the home is primarily associated with its smells. No matter how cozy the interior, no matter how beautiful the furniture, textiles, etc. are in your house, no amount of lighting and fireplaces can make it cozy if there are no smells in it. The smell of homemade food, baking, laundry, and other scents that are unique to your home. Homemade food, so fragrant, fresh from the stove, cooked with love for your loved ones – what could be better, perhaps, only food delivery! Especially after a long and hard day’s work, in inclement and cold weather. That’s why the hearth and the food cooked on it, bring the family together. Today I will tell you the best recipe apps: the 5 finest apps for cooking inspiration.
1. Kitchen Stories
Kitchen Stories is a handy, yet beautiful app with an impressive collection of recipes. The recipes here are grouped into categories: “The Best Breakfasts and Snacks,” “Hearty Dinners,” “Meals for Vegans,” and so on. In addition, Kitchen Stories has to search and filter entries. You can find dishes that contain a special ingredient or belong to a specific cuisine with a couple of taps.
For beginners, there is a separate section with tips and tricks. Many recipes are accompanied by video instructions. Finally, Kitchen Stories allows you to quickly create a shopping list of ingredients for selected dishes. However, you can’t add your own dishes to the app. And the localization of many recipes is not up to par.
2. RecipeBook
A pretty interesting app that has an entertaining Snap’n’Cook feature. It works like this: you find what ingredients you have in your fridge, mark them in the search, and then shake your phone. And the program shows you what you can make with it all. Another trick is taking a picture of the ingredients. Take a picture of a product, shake it, and the app will tell you what it is and what you can make with it.
The app is very popular abroad and allows users to add their own recipes, so there are plenty of options from around the world. True, Russian dishes are one or two and counting. Although our native pelmeni, borsch, and cutlets are available, and of all sorts. RecipeBook has localization, but it is lame – the translation is automatic. You can, however, easily understand the recipes.
3. World’s Best Recipes
But this application is already focused on Russian-speaking users so that no tricky foreign words in the list of products will not wait for you here. The base has more than 6,000 recipes, and they are all equipped with detailed instructions, photos to illustrate the cooking process, and comments from amateur cooks who have tried the dish. The program can also be used without internet access, which is useful if you’re cooking outdoors or in the country.
There is no Snap’n’Cook-like features like the infamous RecipeBook, but the recipes are sorted by category and are perfectly searchable. A special section has articles and beginner’s guides like “How to tell if eggs are fresh” or “How to whip whites”. The app looks good and is a great help in the kitchen. The only downside is the lack of a special category for vegans, so meat aficionados will have to search for recipes without animal protein by checking ingredient lists manually.
4. What Are We Cooking?
“What’s cooking?” also knows how to pick up dishes from given ingredients. In the middle of its start screen, there’s a fridge icon. Click on it and enter the foods you have in stock in the list that opens. Then simply select ingredients from the list by ticking the checkboxes and clicking the “Form Recipes” button. The “What’s cooking?” base, frankly, is not very big – somewhere around 850 recipes, but it’s constantly being updated. In addition, you can add your own variations of dishes to the app. The app has a built-in shopping list where you can enter foods from recipes you’re about to try.
5. Cookpad
A very nice app with a clean interface, which is also free of ads and intrusive offers to buy a premium version. Recipes here are added by users who you can subscribe to, comment on their culinary creations, and even send them private messages. It looks like a social networking site, with pictures of borscht and cutlets instead of kitties. There are lots of recipes. There are drinks, desserts, meat dishes, diet dishes, salads, and baked goods. In the lists by category, you can find national dishes – Belarusian, Caucasian, Tatar, and others. There are, for example, recipes for Muslims. Or for vegans. However, they are not marked as separate categories, and can only be searched by searching.
The Benefits of Homemade Food
And this is just one of the reasons why it’s worth cooking at home. It is worth mentioning the quality of cooked food and its benefits, plus it is prepared with all your taste preferences in mind. Also, in spite of all these advantages, this is the most budget-friendly option for healthy eating. Consider the advantages of home cooking.
- First, the quality of the food. You know what products the food is made of, what heat treatment it underwent, and other issues of interest to you about the cooked dish.
- Secondly, it’s delicious. Indeed, what can compare with the taste and smell of freshly cooked homemade food … On this point, you cannot add anything, everyone knows it from childhood.
- Thirdly, cooking at home is the most budget-friendly option. There is no need to pay for the interior of the restaurant, for service, advertising, and other things that have nothing to do directly with the food itself.
Thus, the benefits of home-cooked meals are undeniable, plus the family dinner like nothing else can bring the family together, give comfort and joy in the home. So make a menu for dinner, organize a trip to the store for fresh and quality products with a list, and do it! And for that, use the apps I advised you today! And enjoy your appetite!