Edit: Recipes restored after being lost for a week.
Edit: after a second attempt to sort out the issue the technical team came to the rescue and the recipes are back. I don’t really understand why they went or why they’re back. I think the initial chat function was desperately unhelpful (saying it was all unrecoverable) and I’m grateful to the technical team for sorting it out. I will probably keep the account now but I’m wondering if a backup is available because it was a blow when I thought everything, including my notes, were all lost.
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Response from developer
Hello, The developers saw this review and want to take a closer look. Please email feast.feedback@theguardian.com, and our team can investigate.
Unreliable saved recipes function
I’ve been using this app for nearly a year and saving recipes into folders, a significant part of the reason for having the app. Then, for no particular reason, the app lost all my saved recipes. I contacted the help function and the recipes aren’t recoverable, they just said sorry about that. I’m not renewing my subscription and the guardian says I have to go to Apple to enquire about my money back. Most unsatisfactory and disappointing.
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An all round culinary resource
Feast is now my first choice recipe finder. It’s inventive, eclectic & comprehensive. Used on my mobile, helpful when shopping ingredients and my tablet, great in Cooking mode when in the kitchen preparing & cooking the dish.
Felicity Cloake & Rachel Roddy’s recipes are a distillation of years of experience. Ottolenghi adds new twists and flavours to old favourites. The list goes on & on.
Keep up the good work. Thank you
Felicity Cloake & Rachel Roddy’s recipes are a distillation of years of experience. Ottolenghi adds new twists and flavours to old favourites. The list goes on & on.
Keep up the good work. Thank you
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Daily adventures
I have to confess to having become a ‘Feast dish of the day’ tragic! So many new ideas and combinations 😊
Inspiration
I’m not enough of a cook to pay for this app on its own but it’s included in my Guardian subscription. I like the range of recipes, the layout, and being able to set filters for dietary preferences. It’s mostly the recipes that are published in the paper/on the website so they’re on the fancy side, with lots of desserts. Therefore, for me, it would be nice if the app-exclusive recipes included more everyday/store cupboard/batch cookable vegetarian mains.
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Fresh ideas every day!
I switched from the NYT cooking AP and have been pleased as punch! I love the range of cuisines and flavours. Only one wish- the addition of nutritional info would be amazing!
Top Notch
Delicious recipes handily at your fingertips!Improvement on piles of paper feasts in kitchen.Thank you!
Still glitchy and a bit limited.
Good to have all these recipes in on place. But since it’s not cheap, the app itself is still very glitchy and missing some key features. E.g. it’s not possible to search your own saved recipes (or to filter a search by save recipes). Also whenever I click a link from a notification on my phone it doesn’t take me to the advertised recipe. So that’s pretty pointless. And for the iPad version, the recipe card is very small, there is a lot of wasted screen space. Would be better to have a large recipe card to it can be read from further away.
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Great App - apart from the search facility!
Love this app and use it regularly. I would rate it 5 stars if only the search facility worked a bit better. Nothing works for me - even putting in the exact title of a recipe I've used before Still doesn't find it!
Daily delights
Always new ideas, and like today wanted a sausage recipe and some great, simple suggestions. The recipes of the day and week make weekly food planning fun.
Doesn’t work, quits
App no longer works at all. It quits immediately. Simply cannot use.
Response from developer
Hi there, I'm sorry you're having trouble with the Guardian Feast app not working. We released an app update this week. Please update to the latest version of the app.
Good but previous notes gone?
I very much enjoy this app and it keeps improving steadily but I’ve just realised at some point an update has blitzed all my notes I’d added to recipes I’d cooked. All gone. Apart from that, it’s my go to for meal ideas and I’ve only had one recipe I’d not cook again.
Collections lost
New update has lost all my collections!?
Lack of Nuance in global food discussions.
I loved this app, however they have made a decision to not give beef recipes due to the environmental impact of beef but still having avocado recipes. This is a poor and simple minded approach to complex issues. UK beef does not have the same impact as multinational high-intensity farming elsewhere in the world. Buying British beef especially if you can get local is not as harmful as industrialised “veganism” currently about to day with “fake meats”. Buying an Avocado in Britain is likely to have a similar in not worse impact than buying British beef. The Guardian’s decision smacks of high-handed moral superiority removing the ability to have a sensible debate about a nuanced issue. Therefore I have cancelled my subscription.
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Frustrating!
When tapping on a recipe link in their email, it takes you to the Apple app page. I already have the app, but the recipe Im trying to look at from email does not automatically open in the app..what a waste.
Disappointing
I thought that this app would allow me to saved the recipes I liked on the app from the actual Saturday guardian using the QR code at the bottom of the recipe. I was disappointed that I have to pay monthly for the privilege, when I've already bought the paper.
The Best Recipe Book
What an amazing idea ! I love it , love it, love it ! It’s like having a recipe book of the world at your finger tips and with contributions from so many amazing chefs. I have been looking up ideas and cooking several meals during the week from this and it is my first port of call always nowadays.
App not working & cannot report issue
App won’t open, reporting functions makes reporting the issue that it won’t open difficult
Response from developer
Hi there, I'm sorry you're having trouble reporting an issue about the Feast app not opening. Please email feast.feedback@theguardian.com and our team can investigate.
The best recipe app
This is a great app, I love that you can add notes because I always tweak recipes, save recipes into different categories and that I can mark as cooked when I’ve tried them. Brilliant
Self Righteous vegans
The app asked users for input as to what recipes they wanted to see. I suggested short ribs. I received a very pompous and self righteous reply saying the Guardian doesn’t publish beef recipes because of the environmental impact! It doesn’t seem to mind promoting exotic recipes that require food that are imported from across half the world by air such as mangoes while beef farmed a few miles away is taboo.
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