Book and app are amazing
The book is exactly as described - a truly brilliant tool for any home (or other) chef. Fantastic if you love to experiment and create rather than just following a path.
Highly recommend app too as a short cut tool in the kitchen. Feel like cookies, muffins? Just bash some up. Throw in whatever you like - everything is perfect every time.
I LOVE this app and book. Many thanks. Recommend it to everyone.
Highly recommend app too as a short cut tool in the kitchen. Feel like cookies, muffins? Just bash some up. Throw in whatever you like - everything is perfect every time.
I LOVE this app and book. Many thanks. Recommend it to everyone.
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Average
Bad UI. Not all ratio's are correct which is annoying. Purchased it as a quick reference due to my career as a chef. Highly disappointed.
Can't really customize
The first thing I wanted to do was to make a ratio for coffee, but "coffee" isn't an ingredient and you can't add custom ingredients. It also kept defaulting me to 20tbs and 12oz instead of 1tbs and 6oz like I kept attempting. Not sure what's going on here but I'm pretty bummed that I spent $6 on this app instead of a latte. ): Maybe the preset ratios will come in handy this weekend for cooking food rather than brewing joe.
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Great but photos are interesting
The app itself is awesome. I have used it for years. It seems to function as it always has. The photos in the new version are black and white and I don't believe add to the app. Interesting choice as I think it affects the aesthetics of the app. Function is great. New look not so much.
Excellent content; Tech is lacking
This is a great app for improvising cooks and those who just want the basic foundation to build one's own recipes on. Plus they finally fixed the discrepancies between the description here, the in-app introduction, and the blurbs for the actual book.
The underlying tech could use some improvement. The primary applications seem to work well: it's a ratio app and it needs to do math and it does. Some extras are a bit off. They finally got around to the iPhone 5 screen, but in early 2014, it really should be fully iPad compatible. The iPad is much better suited for a cooking companion than the iPhone (yes, these are simple formulas that will ultimately be committed to memory, but not immediately), and now that the mini is available there’s a clear middle ground between iPhone and full-sized iPad that should be supported.
The transparent navigation tabs and (to a lesser extent) title bar are a mistake. When text is behind them, the tabs are rendered unreadable. This cannot be intentional as no one would have done this on purpose.
Retina graphics would be nice, too.
Create fully iPad-compatible app and this will be a five-star app. The content is beyond reproach. Ruhlman Enterprises should bring the app up to its level.
The underlying tech could use some improvement. The primary applications seem to work well: it's a ratio app and it needs to do math and it does. Some extras are a bit off. They finally got around to the iPhone 5 screen, but in early 2014, it really should be fully iPad compatible. The iPad is much better suited for a cooking companion than the iPhone (yes, these are simple formulas that will ultimately be committed to memory, but not immediately), and now that the mini is available there’s a clear middle ground between iPhone and full-sized iPad that should be supported.
The transparent navigation tabs and (to a lesser extent) title bar are a mistake. When text is behind them, the tabs are rendered unreadable. This cannot be intentional as no one would have done this on purpose.
Retina graphics would be nice, too.
Create fully iPad-compatible app and this will be a five-star app. The content is beyond reproach. Ruhlman Enterprises should bring the app up to its level.
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The BEST!!
I was an early adopter of this app, & its ratios really work. I was suspicious of this technique, but it's so useful! When you cook for 2, scaling down recipes can be dicey. But having knowledge of amts. of an ingredient when trying to play with a recipe is simple, thanks to this app.
(May be best for those who are used to cooking, rather than newbies.)
(May be best for those who are used to cooking, rather than newbies.)
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Buy the book...
I loaned my book to someone and it disappeared and I thought this app might be a decent substitute. I couldn't recall the oven temp i wanted for a bread recipe and figured it would be in the app, WRONG.
The ratios are fine from what I saw and remember from the book. However, relevant details are missing like oven temps. As I went through the app some more I found it to be disappointing, nothing compared to the book. It is only good for the actual ratio. There are no supplementary recipes, which the book has and I thought might be here.
Connectivity to the blog is still non-functioning and none of the suggestions from previous comments were taken. Save your money, buy the book!
The ratios are fine from what I saw and remember from the book. However, relevant details are missing like oven temps. As I went through the app some more I found it to be disappointing, nothing compared to the book. It is only good for the actual ratio. There are no supplementary recipes, which the book has and I thought might be here.
Connectivity to the blog is still non-functioning and none of the suggestions from previous comments were taken. Save your money, buy the book!
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Decent but neglected
This isn't a proper cookbook but for quick on the fly baking tips this app does nicely. Hasn't had a substantial update in ages, iPad version sorely absent.
Haven't had any cooking disasters with any of the ratios, however when baking bread I've referred to proper recipe books. Have had fairly good results with on the fly pound cake, crepes, biscuits and a few others. Overall I'd recommend despite lack of updates and price.
Haven't had any cooking disasters with any of the ratios, however when baking bread I've referred to proper recipe books. Have had fairly good results with on the fly pound cake, crepes, biscuits and a few others. Overall I'd recommend despite lack of updates and price.
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Don't worth for your money
I'm doing culinary art right now. I thought this app have tons of important ratios. However, it contains too little ratios for an app, which costs me 4.99$. I recommend to buy a proper cooking book instead. There are more ratios than this little app. Don't buy it. Waste of your value money.
Brilliant, and rubbish!
This is an excellent idea and works but there are only a few recipes\ratios, and this makes me resent paying the princely sum of three quid. For example what about these ratios: chicken liver pâté-butter, Yorkshire pudding batter, the various gnocchi. More information please.
