Do you like to eat? A delicious cocktail? Or maybe you just do not know what can be made from ingredients left in the fridge? If at least one of the questions you answered "Yes", then the Epicurious - this app is for you! After all, here you can find thousands of recipes and drinks all cuisines of the world and from any of the ingredients - from a light lunch for a quick hand to complex festive dishes.
Epicurious app originates from social cooking site epicurious.comWhere people from all over the world share recipes with each other. The program loads the recipes from the site, so it's not just some limited set of dishes, and ever-growing, almost bottomless cookbook.
Popolzovavshis application for a while, you begin to understand why it calls itself «the cook's companion», which can be translated as "companion cook."
There are three main options for the search of food in the Epicurious:
- of topics
- Specify
- by name
When searching for topics, you can select one of the categories presented in the relevant section (the first of the three buttons - Feautered - selected by default when the application starts). Here, for example, there is a low-calorie dishes, but I'm more fun to taste cocktails, and they will choose.
Something did not like, I want a cocktail with rum! Here, in the most time will be the selection of the parameters, let's go out there and (the second button - Search). So, we switch to Drink and select characteristics: Coctail, Alcoholic, Rum. ABOUT! Mojito! Add it to the ingredients to a shopping list, by clicking on the appropriate button, and at the same time add a cocktail favorites. In addition, from here you can send the recipe to someone by email by clicking on the envelope.
Great, you can now find something for a snack. You want something Greek. Switch back to the Food and trying to drive the desired options: Lunch and Greek. By switching the tabs to the right, the results can be sorted by relevance, rating, alphabet, adding time and select only those that have a photo dishes. Mmmmm... these sandwiches of cheese and tomatoes on the grill looks very appetizing, also have the highest rating (he exhibited forks :)), and all those who prepared them, they want to try again.
Let's see the recipe and add ingredients to your shopping list. For convenience, you can move the orange marker during cooking, not to forget where he was staying. Text size can be increased or reduced, such details are always handy.
Here you can also read reviews and recommendations of the dish. Here, for example, are advised to fry the tomatoes on the grill alone remember. Well, add this dish to favorites, too, so you could come back to it.
So, I would have not given up on dessert. Cheesecake is just right. If you know the name of the dish, which is looking for, you can drive it in the search bar (located in the upper right corner of the screen). Cheesecake introduce and get a lot of results, focus on lemon - in the shopping list.
It is very convenient to add your favorite dishes and drinks to your favorites, so you could find them quickly, and cook again. The third button (Favorites) just hides the selected dishes. I have been here for a mojito, Greek sandwiches and cheesecake.
The Epicurious app has a very user-friendly shopping list which by pressing a button in the recipe ingredients are added to them, broken down by category and indicating the desired amount of each product. The ingredients required for preparing mojito cheesecake and buterbrodikov with cheese and tomatoes, is already here. Can be regarded as a general list of desired products, and filter it according to the chosen dishes.
Also, if desired, a shopping list, you can right away send an email. This is useful when the purchase will make the wife / husband on the way home from work, for example.
For each dish to Epicurious portion size is specified (how many people) and cooking time, which in turn is divided into active time (when you just do something) and total time, including baking, roasting, cooling - all-all-all, but because of the fact that the custom recipes, figures do not always correspond to reality as possible taste, so it is important to look at the rating of each dish before you undertake it cooking.
The only thing that can cause difficulties when you use an application - is that it is completely in English, and then the names of some of the ingredients without a dictionary, you will not understand. Also lacks the ability to leave comments and put rating dishes directly from the application, it is necessary to go to the site, although perhaps well intended.
Epicurious is suitable for the iPad, and for iPhone / iPod touch [iTunes link]. The app is absolutely free, which is always nice.
Enjoy your meal!