![]() Maybe it’s not exactly how your grocery store is set up but dairy is always together, meat is together, breads and cereals tend to be together so it’s probably a good place to start. One of the preferences sets the grocery list to sort by aisle, which is really nice. Paprika assumes you don’t have any of the ingredients but shows you the list before saving so you can check off the ingredients you already have. With the push of a button you can also create a grocery list. No longer will you be pulling out your 3rd grade math text book to try and take 2/3rd of 3/8ths of a cup of flour Paprika will instantly convert the recipe to the number of servings you desire. I’m a huge fan of their scaling of recipes. Not a fan of stars or hearts? How about pins? You can pin a recipe to the left sidebar so that it’s even more accessible when your’e ready to cook. If you prefer hearts, they have Favorites as well. You can rate your recipes from 1-5 stars, and you can view only your 5-star recipes in the “Top Rated” section. I would’ve liked that, but of course my only smart category would have been “came from Lindsay”. Paprika supports organization of your recipes through categories you can create but doesn’t have Smart Categories. Now instead of copying and pasting a recipe from our web browsers into Paprika’s browser, we can simply tap the bookmarklet and the recipe is instantly saved into Paprika. When Lindsay and I were walking through the features of Paprika for this review, we discovered on the Paprika website that you can create a bookmarklet for your browser. I’ve started adding my own notes after I make a recipe too. Paprika includes a Notes section so when she sends a recipe along, she often gives me some tips like how she reduced one ingredient, or a substitution I might like. ![]() ![]() In the past, going to the web each time, she would forget what modification she’d made. Easy peasy!Īnother benefit for Lindsay in using a recipe organizer is that she can edit the recipe and never have to remember how she modifies it. For example, highlight the ingredients and push the ingredients button. If you do find a recipe that doesn’t swoosh properly, you can highlight pieces of the recipe and then push a corresponding button to pull it in manually. She finds a recipe online, copies the url and pastes it into Paprika’s browser and, with the exception of the very first recipe she tried to import, all of them have simply swooshed right into Paprika with the push of a button. Lindsay says that the built-in web browser in Paprika is her favorite part of the app. On websites they usually have the ingredients at the top so you have to keep scrolling up and down which gets old fast. Now she says she won’t even consider making a recipe on a website before bringing it into Paprika because the formatting is so pleasing, with ingredients on the left hand side and directions on the right. Before Paprika, Lindsay would go to her pinned recipes in Pinterest and read right from the web. They made it super easy by allowing me to easily import my VAST library of nearly 20 recipes form Mac Gourmet.Ī standard feature of a good recipe app these days is the ability to import recipes from the web. I finally bit the bullet and switched to Paprika. The app got bought by another company and dropped so I moved to Mac Gourmet, but they dropped support as well. Years ago I used the Yum application and would share recipes with my friend Lynn. Paprika is available for the Mac and iOS, as well as Windows, Android, the Kindle Fire and the Nook Color. One way we’ve started to share recipes is with a fantastic application called Paprika Recipe Manager from. She has inspired me over time, sending me the easier recipes in a quest to get me to break out and experiment. Like most kids, when our daughter Lindsay moved out on her own, she rebelled against her rigid upbringing and decided to try to cook two new meals every single week. It has been suggested that this is what happens when two engineers marry. Our kids first pointed it out when they noticed that we had made burritos every Monday for a very long time. In fact, it’s well known that Steve and I have been eating on a repetitive schedule for going on 20 years. I’m not a chef and I won’t even suggest that I’m an accomplished cook.
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