Outstanding content but at a price

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.

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