[Sca-cooks] Cooking Apps

[Johnna Holloway]

Sounds cool

Johnnae

Sent from my iPad

> On Jul 25, 2015, at 4:10 PM, Glenn Gorsuch <ggorsuch at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  My favorite, bar none, of the various cooking software thingies I've
> tried is Pepperplate.  There's an iOS version, Android version, and desktop
> version...and they all talk to each other, and store offline.  The desktop
> version also is very good at snagging recipes from recipe-websites, so
> you're not stuck filling in all the fields yourself.  That said, even
> manual data entry is simple and effective.  And you can sort recipes all
> sorts of ways, even adding in your own food-categories (I've added a field
> called "medieval" for instance, so I can easily pull up an alphabetically
> sorted list of, say, all medieval poultry charcuterie dishes, to use three
> categories at once). Also a nice immense field to add your own notes and
> comments and ratings for each recipe.
> 
> So my usual methodology is...come across some neat recipe online on the
> laptop.  Click import, or copy-paste into the program.  Or enter your own
> creation in manually.  Add sort-tags.   Then later, when I want to cook, I
> let the wifi talk to the tablet, and it's there too.  And should I want to
> cook it later, say, at an event, it's still there on the tablet.  There's
> auto-scaling and shopping list and time management elements too, but I've
> barely used those except for one feast.
> 
> Best of all?  FREE.  Full disclosure...I am not affiliated with these folks
> at all, except as an end user.  But if I were to write software for a
> recipe manager ( assuming I could code software, which I can't), it would
> be like this.
> 
> Gwyn
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