The modern hostess no longer needs a heavy cookbook and extensive knowledge of the features of products and their compatibility. All you require is a smartphone and a set of apps that can do absolutely anything.
Plan purchases
Today, people can not easily buy all the necessary ingredients and forget nothing in a timely manner. Sometimes it turns out that you do not have the most important things in the refrigerator directly during the cooking process. You can solve this problem with a convenient application organizer such as Cozi Family Organizer. It is a program for the whole family that will help you to form lists of products, as well as plan other aspects of everyday life.
Another popular helper is the AnyList app which will help you separate products into separate categories. Users can even exchange lists with their friends and family, add products to favorites and select a certain color for each list.
Choose products
Healthy eating is not only strenuous workouts and calorie counting. The quality of products is a significant criterion as well. You should always buy the right foods that contain the right amount of vitamins and nutrients. Fooducate will help you with a tough choice.
This application helps users scan products in the supermarket and evaluate them according to the degree of utility, as well as provides users with information about the composition of products and the presence of artificial flavors and dyes. In addition, Fooducate is always ready to offer more nutritious alternatives to rejected products.
Cooking
Find the right recipe
There are a lot of applications with recipes, so each of them can show you an excellent selection of dishes for all occasions. There are several of the most popular of them:
- Tasty. It contains very simple and affordable recipes that are perfect for beginners. There are interesting video lessons and practical guides with which you can consistently improve your skills.
- Yummly. It is the most extensive recipe database from around the world, with incredibly beautiful photos and the ability to create a personal collection of dishes. In addition, Yummly can make shopping lists.
- Patee. This is another find for those who want to learn to cook well. It has very detailed recipes, for each of which there is a step-by-step instruction with photos.
- Kitchen Stories. This is a very popular and beautifully designed application with a convenient search. Here, the recipes are divided into categories and accompanied by videos. There is information about the nutritional value of the dishes too.
You can choose an application according to your personal criteria, such as a comfortable and clear interface, the presence of dishes in a particular kitchen, or a stylish design.
Choose the spices correctly
The skill of finding the most suitable seasoning for a particular dish is a skill that even professional cooks have developed over the years. However, modern cooks do not need to spend so much time thanks to the wonderful application called Spices!, which is a pocket encyclopedia with spices and flavorings.
Spices! will give you detailed information about the taste of the spice you chose, as well as about its compatibility with other ingredients and the appropriateness of use in a particular dish. It will also tell you interesting historical facts. In this program, the smart search is realized perfectly, so you can find the right spice almost instantly.
Keep track of time
Every dish has an exact cooking time that you cannot ignore. Thyme: A Kitchen Timer for the Culinary Arts will help you do that. This is a timer application with a beautiful theme. Among its important advantages, it is the ability to set a timer for several meals simultaneously. Mobile apps make cooking fun and fun. Also, you will learn quickly and realize that there is nothing difficult!