Video Recipes & Food Diary – ifood.tv
Developer: Future Today, Inc. Cost: Free Runs on: Android, iPhone Website:www.ifood.tv
Think of iFood.tv as the food version of YouTube. They currently get a self-reported 4 million monthly unique visitors. This month they launched their Android app and updated their iPhone app, which both tout 40,000 recipe videos. If that seems like a lot, you’re right. It is. Ultimately, I found that this app suffered from too much of a good thing.
This app has five main navigation tabs: Home, Search, Favorites, My Diary and More. Home brings you to the main opening screen. The Home screen is compiled of eight whopping pages of tiny thumbnails to “help” make the process of finding recipes easy. These thumbnails organize recipes in various categories and sub-categories, from “Dessert” and “Kids” to “Cheese” and “Halal.” As you can imagine, just sorting through the eight pages of categories can quickly become a chore.
Sara’s Kitchen
Developer: Sara Moulton Enterprises, Inc. Cost: $2.99 Runs on: iPhone Website:http://saramoulton.com
Before there was Rachel Ray or Giada DeLaurentiis (who just launched her first app), there was Sara Moulton. Moulton got her start working behind the scenes on “Julia Child & More Company.” Eventually Moulton was in front of the camera on The Food Network and now she is the star of “Sara’s Weeknight Meals” on public television. The app, Sara’s Kitchen, is a collection of 60 recipes from three books, “Sara Moulton’s Everyday Family Dinners,” “Sara’s Secrets for Weeknight Meals,” and “Sara Moulton Cooks at Home.”
I’ve reviewed several celebrity food apps in the past (Jamie Oliver, Mario Batali, and Fabio Viviani) and have been generally impressed. So I had some pretty big expectations for Sara’s Kitchen. Just as her professionalism has been a constant over the years, Moulton’s transition into mobile is as smooth as her moves to celebrity chef and author.
Good Food One-Pot Recipes
Developer: BBC Worldwide Cost: $2.99 Runs on: iPhone Website:www.bbcgoodfood.com
One-Pot Recipes is one of BBC Worldwide’s seven Good Food apps—and the first one I’ve ever reviewed. Some of these food apps are available for multiple operating systems, including Android, however One-Pot Recipes is only available for iOS devices.
One-Pot Recipes includes 150 dishes sorted by Vegetarian, Slow, Quick, Low-fat, Soup, Comfort, Budget, Pots and Pan Roasts, Casseroles, and Five Ingredients. There are two main ways to find recipes, through an “Inspire Me” opening page where you select ingredients to narrow the recipe results, or through the Recipes tab where you can navigate by the category and view recipes in a classic scrolling list, similar to other apps such as GetCrocking and SoupMaster, that includes thumbnails with basic recipe information. The app also includes a standard search, which isn’t all that great—adding beef as an ingredient in my Inspire Me pot narrows my recipes to 14 while searching “beef” offers just two recipes.
Think of iFood.tv as the food version of YouTube. They currently get a self-reported 4 million monthly unique visitors. This month they launched their Android app and updated their iPhone app, which both tout 40,000 recipe videos. If that seems like a lot, you’re right. It is. Ultimately, I found that this app suffered from too much of a good thing.
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