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Fork the Cookbook is an unusual take on the idea of a cooking application. It is the Github for recipes with “version control”. With Fork the Cookbook, it is all about the evolution of food – how you can adapt, change, modify, or tweak every time to come up with interesting variations. It makes the cooking (and sharing) experience a bit easier.
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Owning an iPad has changed the way I cook and bake in my kitchen. I can now load everything on my iPad, place it in the closest spot where it still wouldn't get dirty, and cook to my heart's content. While some cooking apps are nothing but recipe managers or collections of general recipes that are never quite clear enough, good results will come from cooking apps that actually teach you how to cook.
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There is something to be said, however, for a professional "recipe book" approach, where content comes from a single trusted source that's accountable for each recipe. That's what you get with Must-Have Recipes, an Android app by Better Homes and Gardens featuring a professionally curated collection of recipes with a gorgeous studio-quality image of each recipe.
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For some people, it’s already pretty hard to get good at relatively simple cooking, but there are plenty of apps available for Android which can help you in this regard. However, cooking and baking are often seen as two completely separate events, so most cooking apps tend to be skimpy when it comes to baking items. This is because baking makes extreme use of the oven, sugar, and precise measurements of the needed ingredients.
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There are very few cooking lovers who can look past a decent recipe application for their phone. Most of us are always keen to find a new application which will let us browse great recipes and cook with our phone or tablet in front of us as a guide. But since you probably already have a few favourite recipe apps on your phone, we've decided to review a couple of the best recipe apps, with a few complementary apps to help you with the actual cooking.
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For years I have struggled to find a good method for searching for and managing food recipes, including buying recipe books and magazines, bookmarking webpages, and saving recipes to Evernote. But none of these methods work as well as an iOS app called Paprika Recipe Manager ($4.99).
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Every once in a while, it's good to see how the Internet can help us in our practical life. Sure, technology and gadgets are fun, but how can those technology and gadgets help us update activities that don't normally require such items? For instance, consider cooking. As a matter of fact, let's narrow it down - baking. Baking typically is a totally offline activity, but I've found a few websites that can help you in the kitchen.
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I didn’t realize I was following so many cooking channels until I saw Joshua’s list of great YouTube cooking channels to follow. I knew at least 5 of the 6 channels in his list so I thought I’d feature a few more which I consider excellent sources of recipes and cooking tips. What makes the following chefs distinctive is that they are masters in a specific type of cuisine. Some might have video recipes for different regions, but most are fairly consistent in their specialization.
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As an amateur “chef” who is just about warming up the frying pan, I really need to get the right amount into the recipes for lip-smacks and compliments. The difference could be a pinch of salt. Well, we can always fall back on kitchen tools that help us get it just right. Here I am in search of online kitchen converters.
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I love chocolate. I love it so much, I would live on chocolate alone it if were possible. The best present anyone can give me is a box of assorted chocolates, complete with a little index where I can identify which one is which and choose the order in which I will devour them. Luckily, I am not alone in my passion, and there are many around the world who share it.
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Summer is almost upon the northern hemisphere, and official camping season is just around the corner. An important and integral part of any camping trip, be it car camping, backpacking or just a day camp in the woods, is camping food. It never ceases to amaze me how simple ingredients cooked on a fire can become so delicious just by the change of settings.
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Being a fast food aficionado, I recently recognized that it was high time for me to get back in the kitchen. I've spent way too long eating my meals on the run, and I'm sure that many of you could relate. However, part of my trouble was figuring out what I should cook! Using the powers of the Internet, I set out to find a few YouTube channels that provide some decent meal tips as well as entertainment.
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Posting recipes on a blog is something many of us do. This plugin called GetMeCooking makes it easy to manage and present your recipes in a nice and search engine friendly format, as well as automatically gives your recipe the chance to be listed on the Getmecooking.com recipe directory too, linking back to your site in the process.
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Recipe sites and services abound on the net, but it’s always interesting to find ones that, er, bring something new to the table, like combine recipes with art. Recipes and artwork? How can those two even be related? Related or not, there is a website that has linked just these two things in a beautiful way. The resulting effect is probably going to make you feel incredibly inspired to either cook, start practicing sketching/design work or both!
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The iPhone and iPad have changed the way we share with each other. Everything that everyone is doing at all times seems to be shared one way or another. Whether we are posting the latest photos to Instagram, checking in on Foursquare or sharing some random thought on Twitter, we are all sharing with each other, all the time. The trend in sharing seems to be moving more towards applications that share one type of thing.
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