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I deconstructed it
I had chard in the garden and found this recipe because I did a search for Swiss chard. I am a minimalist so this is what I did: chopped the chard and stems, sautéed them after the onions with the zest and garlic added at the same time. After a couple minutes I added 1/3 cup of white wine (because I had no broth), after a minute I added the fish and topped it with olive tapenade I purchased pre-made from our local gourmet market, squeezed over the juice of one lemon and covered the pan. Cooked for about 15 minutes added the tomatoes and cooked an additional minutes. SOOO easy, quick and good this way. Flavors were perfect together. And one pan making clean-up easy.Show lessmykatzbox
Massive, Flexible Recipe Source and Culinary Teaser
Seemingly endless recipes in a flexible yet thorough and efficient database. Photo quality is excellent which adds to the tendency for me to search a certain recipe, and subsequently get lost on a culinary journey. I can honestly say that while I might not get exactly what I’m looking for every time (a ridiculous expectation), the myriad choices always give me food for thought. It sometimes ends up like going to the grocery store for a quart of milk. After wandering the store and picking out a dozen items, I check out, walk out towards my car pondering all the delicious things I will make only to realize as I turn the key in the ignition that I forgot the milk.Show lessZSandman82
They just can’t get it right
I downloaded this app many years ago and deleted it because it was so cumbersome to use and had so many bugs. Recently I came across an Epicurious article I wanted to read. Every time I clicked a recipe (online not the app) I was blocked until I signed in. So go to the web and see if you can find a site with a similar recipe but that didn’t always work so I signed up with Epicurious. Great now I have access! Not really, I click a recipe, it gives ingredients but when you get to prep I see the recipe until I try to scroll further down and then it blocks me again and says to sign in. I’m already signed in. Augh! Okay download the app that’s gotta work. Again nope, just keeps crashing on me. I’ve resorted to trying to take quick screenshots of recipes. It’s a whole deal and so not worth the trouble.Show lessmamie157
I really love the recipes, but the app doesn’t function well.
The recipes are great, and I’ve really enjoyed making them, but the app itself isn’t great. The back button doesn’t work well, it has a really tiny hit box so sometimes it takes me longer to hit the back button than it does to read the recipe. I’ve never had this issue with any other app. Also, the timers don’t notify you when they’re finished… they count down, but there’s no sound or notification when they’re finished, so you’re better off just using an egg timer or your oven clock or even the timer on your phone. Thanks to the timers not working, I over cooked a whole dozen eggs. Bummer.
Also, for whatever reason, you can’t review a recipe from inside the app. So while you can use this app to view recipes, you can’t participate in reviews and such, which makes me question how accurate the reviews are. Plus, it just takes away the sense of community and participation. Why even include reviews if you’re not going to let people do their own?
On the upside, you can save recipes to come back to, but you can’t sort them so it’s sort of chaos, but still, it’s nice to have them in a list instead of a million browser tabs.
So, all in all, I kind of hate the app, but I love Epicurious recipes so it gets 3 stars, even though the app is a hard 2.Show lessOneEyedCyclops
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback. We are excited to share we are working on a new and improved app experience coming later this year. Stay tuned!Need ability to search my recipe box
Cons (most egregious first) - The app and website are missing full text search for my recipe box vs just recipe name. I am swimming in fresh mint but have to go recipe by recipe to find the ones with mint. - a while ago I lost my personal notes that I added to recipes. When it happened I was super annoyed, time has tempered this to quite annoyed. - the app doesn’t allow creating recipe reviews. The website does but This is annoying. Pros + good recipes and helped by ratings and cooks notes (though only cooks using the app) + matches the Bon Appetit print magazine which I appreciate for going to the store but bot having my magazine.Show lessDesharri
Been on epi for so many years! life is so different now
I went on epi when I first heard about it, at least 18 years ago...maybe more. It was the total package....new and amazing! Now, I’m getting a bit disappointed and yet I always come back. Some of my favorite recipes have disappeared from the site and I’ll never retrieve and some of the new is just not good. Sometimes way too trendy and I’m not sure if the staff reads or tries these recipes as written? Like I said, I’ll keep coming back, but I’d like to see more of the basics and not 15 of the same thing with only a slight variance Update: liking some of the reviews of product both food and tools. Would also like to see more standardized recipes for holidays...like basic pumpkin, apple, or cherry pies....most are out there and sometimes you want the food to be exotic and sometimes just “good American food” Also, I use epi on my iPhone/iPad and cannot figure out how to review recipes on there....send me info on that, please
So, i guess y’all do not care about these reviews…so, why do you ask?? I sent the above, at least 2 years ago. I have yet to hear from anyone from the companyShow lesspam the cook
No longer working
This app used to be 5 stars. But in the last few months every time I try to email or print a recipe, the app crashes. I have to resort to the web version. Too bad.Kunga Nanky
Epicurious - best recipe and cooking source ever!
I have been using Epicurious long before apps - back in the days of dial up! The Epicurious app was one of the first I ever downloaded and it holds all of my recipes so I have it no matter where I may travel. What makes Epicurious so appealing is its organization - you can create a shopping list for recipes, it provides a fairly accurate estimation of prep time, difficulty ratings AND you get feedback from other users: teaks on ingredients, additional tips, etc. All of these qualities make Epicurious perfect for everybody that wants to create in the kitchen from novice to expert. I use it for inspiration when I am just burnt out on cooking but the family expects dinner every bought, too. Absolute lifesaver that has rekindled my love of cooking many times when I was loathing the “what’s for dinner?” questioning.Show lessNeely97
Why does this app torture me so?
Adore Epicurious and it’s curated recipes. Been using it for years! I’d pay for a better app experience however. Somehow I can’t log in on a desktop as the recipes saved in the app don’t appear in my account on the desktop/web browser version of Epicurious. Pretty scary to see a dozen recipes of the 1,500 saved! No help from support over the years with this issue. Finally gave up. Would like to be able to create categories and folders within the app. The app is so glitchy I take months off from using it. When scrolling through my saved recipes it quits unexpectedly so I lose my place. When sharing a recipe it quits. Saving a recipe it quits. You get the picture. I could write a manifesto on how this app could be improved. Love you Epi so reach out if I can help! For real..Show lessLeave my name alone
Rank customer abuse
I have loved and been using Epicurious for YEARS — long enough to have saved and organized over 1,000 recipes, including many unique to me (and not saved anywhere else). Two days ago I opened it up … only to find a “site redesign” had completely stripped out the old Recipe Box. Gone were all the categories I had created and filed my recipes under; gone were all my notes about tweaks to the given recipe, etc. There isn’t even a search function anymore! The only thing left is a single column of my saved recipes, with a simple “Load more” button at the bottom. These changes have essentially made my Recipe Box utterly USELESS. (If I want to find a recipe I saved 5 years ago, how many pages will I have to load just to find it? 200? 300?) Perhaps the worst part about this wipeout of all my old data was that Epicurious gave me ZERO warning it was going to happen. Nada, zip, zilch. I am now rethinking my entire relationship to this company and will also start letting every other cooking outlet and cooking friend know about their crappy behavior. Shame on them.Show lessembles66
