Recipe Collection

Not everyone has the talent to become a chef, or even a good cook, but few people can complain today that they lack the inspiration or knowledge to actually start cooking. The Internet is filled with recipes for any dish imaginable, and one of the most difficult things that you actually have to do before you prepare a meal is to choose just one recipe and stick to it.

Now, surely, not everything that's on the Internet should be fully trusted, and it’s true that some recipes are better than others. When you actually find one that works perfectly for you and your family, you should definitely save it. But instead of just bookmarking it, you could use an application like Recipe Collection.

In theory, Recipe Collection could be your best kitchen helper. Just copy and paste a link to your favorite recipe in the program’s interface, and it should save a short description, a detailed list of all the ingredients you need and all the necessary instructions. The problem is, it rarely does that.

Most times it just saves the short description and a beautiful little picture of the dish. If you’re lucky, it will also import the list of ingredients from the website. As for the cooking steps, I probably tried saving around 20 recipes, and it only saved the list of instructions twice. Mind you, the instructions were pretty clear on the websites I visited. This is a shame, too, because the application actually allows you to mark steps as done while you prepare the meal.

If you really like the program’s interface, you could just add some of those elements manually. You would lose a bit more time, but you would probably get a nice, uncategorized collection as a result. Or, you could simply wait until Recipe Collection improves whatever algorithm it has and gets better at collecting information from websites. Don’t worry, this isn’t the only app of its kind.