NYT Cooking App Reviews

This app is very user-friendly and great for finding recipes and referencing while cooking. I would like to see an easier way to navigate from the email links to the app that bypasses a web browser, but that seems like a pretty nit-picky concern. Either way I use this app regularly while shopping and cooking, and improvements like being able to add recipes from other sites to my recipe box are great.

All around a great app. Gorgeous photography, tasty recipes in a variety of types, and easy to use.

Please put in an AirPrint button and it will be a real winner. More photos too for the older recipes. Great job!

I love the New York Times food section so this app is a dream. Its a helpful, user friendly app that inspires new meal ideas for me.

I used to love this app until the last update. I dont see my saved recipes any more and now, I need to log in. Why should I need to log in? Im sick and tired of having to log in for everything, especially for that. Im very disappointed.

Love the recipes and how they are organized but the app takes up sooo much storage so Ill have to delete it :(

Great for saving online articles and browsing NY Times great selection of recipes. I just wish it could save online articles in an offline format and provide for shopping lists.

Having easy access to the entire NY Times recipe database is wonderful in this beautiful and photogenic app. But be prepared for the huge amount of space it takes up and whoa, does it inhale battery life. Last night I used it on a just-charged iPad and with no other apps open, within an hour it had drawn the battery down by more than 50%. Its search function — the most important function for any recipe app — needs improvement, too. If you make a typo in your search, e.g., typing “piie” instead of “pie," you’ll get no results. On the other end of things, it will retrieve anything that you type — as someone else has written here, if you type in “pie” you’ll get lots of pies but also anything else that has p-i-e in a title, like eggs sardou or any other recipe by Pierre Franey. I’ve come to think that it’s just as easy to use the website version of nytimes.com/cooking because it has the same terrific content and features without these functional problems.

Easy to navigate, with a helpful search feature and the ability to easily bookmark recipes. A must for meal planning.

This is the varsity!

Love the app - love the idea of storing recipes on it rather than keeping paper copies. But its killing the meager storage on my iPad, and now they want me to keep other recipes on it as well. Great idea, but I cant store anything more unless it can go on the cloud - please help!!!

Many previous reviewers have already nailed the ways in which this apps functionality sings. Lovely design, consistent reliable, thoughtful UI+UX, oh, and great content. My only current concern — and the reason I did not give it a full five-star review — is due to the fact that, currently, recipe collections cannot be modified and/or deleted. Due to a glitch when I first tried the app months ago, one of my collections was replicated five times and, though nothing is currently in them, I can see no way for them to be deleted. Not a big deal, but worth mentioning.

The recipes are quite difficult, I wouldnt recommend this app for my friends.

Not for dieters

Love this app! Great design and interface, easy to navigate, love the ability to save recipes from other websites, and consistently good to excellent recipes culled from the NYT archives. Really great for someone with limited time on week nights to cook, but who wants to add variety to their menus.

I am a skilled self taught cook who loves to create new recipes. I love putting ingredients I am working with to set my thinking going in a new direction. When a hippie in the 70s , 80s I appreciated Craig Claiborne and his recipes particularly the New York Times Cookbook. It started me on a journey of trying my hand at the more exotic techniques as I lived on a mountaintop and had access to lots of time and homeschooling topics and skills to expand my childrens cultural culinary exposure. The new app has continued in the tradition of not disappointing me as Mr. Claiborne. Has in the past. Wonderful.Highly recommend this app.

A delight to navigate and an easy way to pin and/or save your favorite recipes.

Really enjoy saving all the recipes. Works great on iPad.

Who needs a cookbook?

The recipes are outstanding, its easy to organize your favorites according to your needs , and the search function is excellent. This is my go-to cooking app and virtual cookbook.