Food-prep apps that assist you in the kitchen

Every time you step out of the house, one question that constantly lingers is the dilemma around what food products to buy. Presented here is a list of eight mobile apps that will help you make better, tastier, and smarter choices.

Here are some of the best Food-prep apps to help you this holiday season

Free recipe guides

NYT Cooking

Every time you Google a recipe, what confuses you more is the myriad of choices offered. To choose one out of the suggestions seems like an extremely tough task. This is where Recipe Testing helps you extensively. NYT Cooking has around 16,000+ recipes from The New York Times’ archives compiled in a single app. You can try various kinds of recipes for one particular dish. For instance, have Jacques Pepin’s Basic Roast Chicken one night and Andre Soltner’s some other day. The app is available on iOS for free.

Cook’s Illustrated

Not only does this app have some of the best tasted recipes, but its USP lies in the Tasting section that rates common ingredients. If you browse the app before hitting the supermarket, it will tell you what brands are best when it comes to ingredients. It is available free of cost on iOS.

Seafood Watch

Seafood has a mathematically high variant of ingredients. There are many questions that hover around. What ocean critters should you buy, and which ones should be avoided? What food will be suitable and at which time of the year? People at Monterey Bay Aquarium have brought all the answers to your fingertips right in your pocket. The app even gives you information about fishmongers that are responsible enough and offer the best ingredients.

Harvest

Most of the times, when you stand in the Grocery Store, confusion arises from too much availability rather than no availability. There are a lot of doubts regarding what products are in season and how to choose the best produce. Harvest has all your answers. It also has step-by-step guides to proper storage of products. The layout is deceptively simple, but the user surely gets all his answers.

Know your booze and balance your quantity

Vivino

When it comes to wine, the more choices, the more confused you will be. This divine drink has too many options, and one needs proper guidance to choose the right sip. Vivino offers you all the help. All you need to do is take a picture of a wine label and upload. It gives you crowdsourced ratings and tasting information, the average price of the bottle, and information about local availability. It is available for free on Windows, iOS, and Android.

PDT Cocktails

Confused about what cocktails to make with your available booze inventory? PDT Cocktail will help. Just update which drink options you have in your stock, and this app will tell you the best cocktail recipes. The app has 400 recipes including specialties. The app though is not free and is priced at $10.

ChefSteps

The app provides you instructions on kitchen tasks. You can learn to marinate meat and sharpen a knife. Not only are there written steps and recipes, but also full-fledged videos and photos to guide you. There is a built-in egg calculator that tells you the temperature and cooking time for personalized egg perfection. The app is available on Android and iOS.

Ratio

This app does the math required for recipes. Input the amounts that are available, and it will adjust the remaining amounts for you. This app is also free on Android and iOS.