NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals

78 of 100 · reviews
4.9of 5 · store
538,221ratings on the App Store
475reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

An editorial recipe library from the New York Times with thousands of tested recipes and a strong community. The main complaint is that forced app updates cut off users on older devices, and search within saved recipes is clunky.

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What people use it for

People who want editorially vetted recipes rather than a planner or tracker

What reviews praise

A vast and varied recipe base from professional culinary editors you can actually trust.

What reviews complain about

Saved recipes cannot be organized into folders and are hard to find in a long, unstructured list.

What users experience

3 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

Pay for subscription and get huge adds on all recipes. If your app accidentally closes and you're in the middle of a recipe, good luck when you open it back up you might not find that recipe. There's no way to lock the page or find it again. That waste a lot of money and time when food is wasted.

Recipes on the NYT email links are always interesting. I have SAVED numerous ones but when I go to the recipe box it is often difficult to locate my saved personal folders and recipes.

I have used this app since the first day it was introduced. It is a fabulous resource for recipes. However, the search function is archaic. It just doesn't work well in any wa...