NYT Cooking User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience75.9% of reviews
Neutral6.1% of reviews
Negative experience18.0% of reviews

~ Based on 1,595 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is NYT Cooking Safe?

NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for NYT Cooking is 98/100.

This assessment is based on 543,858 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.9/5.

Safety Analysis

98.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
0.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
0.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 543,858 App Store ratings for NYT Cooking.

Is NYT Cooking Legit?

NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for NYT Cooking is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Consistently Fabulous

I really live NYT recipes. Sometimes they need a bit of translation for the UK. The range is really incredible. Quickly becoming my first port of call for ideas and variety.

It’s the only online cookbook I need

I have a library of cookbooks off my kitchen covering every cuisine and time period ( including a WW II one for rationing…it may come in handy again). But my go-to source for cooking is the NYTIMES cooking app. The like minded readers offer wonderful critiques, suggestions, and tales that I’ve come to rely on. Well done, you
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Great recipes!!

I have so many NYT recipes that I just love…like their Turkey Burgers! They taste phenomenally good, are actually quite simple to make and healthy at the same time! That’s just one example…I love this app!

My go-to!

Great app! I use it every day.

Those helpful hints...LOL!

Sure the recipes are amazing... But the comments are the tenderloin! Hard to name the best but when you're making Salade nicoise and someone suggests... "Swap the tuna for tofu and instead of hard boiled eggs use Cadbury milk chocolate! Tomatoes? Not me... I go with ripe juicy plums! And who needs vinegar in the dressing? Coca cola is the key to unlocking the majesty of the haricot verts... PRICELESS!
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Prep and cook times wildly inaccurate

For example, Pasta Alla Vodka lists a 30 minute time. I don’t know anyone that can get a pot of water boiling, chop an onion, grate Parmesan, measure vodka, measure cream, chop parsley, chop oregano, chop garlic, and measure out oil, salt, pepper, pasta in 30 minutes much less cook also. From prep start to ready to start cooking, it took me 50 minutes. And another 30 to 40 hour to cook pasta, drain, cook onion, garlic, pancetta, reduce vodka, reduce tomatoes, and reduce cream. Come on NYTimes Recipes, you’ve got a great app, great recipes, but stop with your “quick and easy meals” fiction! That’s not you.
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My favorite resource

This app is an excellent repository of fine cooking. It’s often my first stop for a new recipe and we have many family favorites saved!

NYT Cooking

Simply inspiring. As a dyed in the wool Southern cook. You gotta be good to inspire!

My Must-have kitchen resource

A daily staple of my daily meal planning/prep for over ten years

Very informative

I am an avid cook and baker. I’ve learned so much from the recipes and content, including comments from others! Well worth the subscription fee.

Love NYT cooking but hoping for more

I use the app weekly for inspiration but would love to have more search options, this is very limited to me. I’d love to see new AI features also.

Interesting recipes

I enjoy cooking so that variety of recipes is really wonderful. I love how you can save them in categories.

Love this App

Very useful, easy to use. I live saving recipes there in folders. I have not
Made all of them, but I plan to

The Best

Amazing app; simple, delicious , coverts to metric

I like it, I also think…

I really appreciate the broad spectrum of recipes. I do wish they had the a meal planning portion of the app. I use MANY apps and recipe sites and sometimes I forget where the recipe I wanted showed up. I know, I’m old, but I can’t be the tone…

❤️ My NYTimes Cooking app

This app has been a life saver for me and my family. We all have some sort of restrictions when it comes to food and this app gives me TONS of inspirations on what to cook. 98% of the time the food is delicious and healthy. I almost never make anything twice because there are so many recipes to explore. I always send photos to my daughter and friends that are also delighted by the results.
I’ve never been disappointed and I have a list of things to cook so I’m never without an idea! 💡
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Takes up too much of my time LOL

one of the rare food platforms that feels like a companion rather than a database — endlessly inspiring, occasionally distracting, and just shy of perfect because it needs more of those quick-hit videos that make dinner feel doable on a weeknight.

Happy we found this app!

Tried and tested easy recipes. The recipes have changed our at home dining experience and leave us less inclined to dine out. Excellent food, easy to find ingredients, quick to more involved recipes allowing a range of options. Love this app!

Some questionable instructions

I truly enjoy reading the recipes, but if I wasn’t a cook and understood methods there would have been more than one failure. For instance, the blender chocolate mousse recipe said to beat the heavy cream for 5 minutes. It would be butter by that time. The cashew brittle said to boil without a candy thermometer for 8-10 minutes. That length of time brought it to less than a soft ball stage.
A little more editing is in order.
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Wicked Good

What a fantastic app, I use it every week for at least one meal!