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Apps for the home cook

Mise En Place Lite

The disorganized cook is most likely to profit from this app as it is designed to help you ‘project manage’ by organizing multistep meals, from shopping to prepping to cooking. It helps you take control of your kitchen, prodding you at crucial moments.

It’ll remind you to take that meat out of the freezer to start defrosting, or tell you, by day, what you need to buy at the grocery store. If you’re cooking more than one dish, it’ll help you space out your tasks so that everything arrives at the table at the right time. It also allows you to scribble notes to yourself about food you want to make or cookbooks you want to look at.

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.2 or later
Epicurious

Cooks who prefer to cook from recipes will find this app enables them to search recipes from sources as diverse as Gourmet, Bon Appétit, famous chefs, and popular cookbooks using keywords and that filter by main ingredient, cuisine, dietary restrictions, season, course, and more. One of the more reliable apps out there, these recipes have been tested in professional kitchens or by professional chefs.

Requirements: Available for Android mobiles, iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire, B&N Nook and Windows Phone
The BigOven

Take 170,000+ recipes (including your own) and your grocery list anywhere on your iPad! The BigOven’s new beta Menu Planner helps to plan meals days, weeks or months ahead on a drag-and-drop calendar. Often recommended as an “ideal kitchen companion” the app gets cooks inspired and organized in the kitchen and on-the-go.

Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 3.2 or later and Android
Let’s Cook Chinese

Feel like a stir fry or a Schezuan fried rice? If you like Chinese food, you can try your hand at recreating your favourites with this app that includes a video application. Most popular Chinese dishes are presented in a very organized way. No matter where you are at, this portable video guide will help you cook some of your favourite Chinese meals with minimum fuss.

Requirement: Android, compatible with 2.1 and above.

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