NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals App Reviews

Great recipes, sometimes quirky website. These are wonderful recipes: I’ve been cooking them for my wife and me for about 5 years now, they are generally easy (or if not then straightforward), they can be done in a reasonable amount of time (usually less than an hour), they have sometimes helpful sometimes humourous comments, and they are mostly (90%+) good to great. But the website is clunky. Try searching meat loaf and meatloaf: you get two different sets of results. Misspell something, type in something that the Times’s computer doesn’t recognize (even though a normal human being and even Google might) and you’re lost. Despite the quirks, it is my go-to web recipes, because so reliably good. And much more concise and clear and brief than other websites that rely on extensive ads. (Plus when we downsized all our print cook-books went ☹️

Freakanomics. Well here is a classic example of an app with fake reviews. Unfortunately, for NYT it’s the good reviews that are fake. It’s just not possible for an app to have a field goal rating of distribution. About half of the reviews are five stars and the other half is 1 star with just a few sprinkled among the 2/3/4 stars. If you search for recipe apps then look at the ratings, each of them will have a downhill rating: meaning the majority of the reviews are 5 stars with fewer and fewer ratings distributed amongst the stars 4-3-2-1. Don’t believe the 5 star reviews for any app when you see an equal distribution of 5 and 1 star reviews. In the case of the NYT cooking app, most of the 1 star reviews are from users that believe the annual price of this app is just too much, I am in that group. When the app used to be free, I used it daily and Ioved it. I might even have given it a 4 or 5 star rating. Did the app crash from time to time, yes it did. But I didn’t care. Did I experience issues with my saved recipes? Yes, but I didn’t mind. The app was free and with free you accept these issues. This app is unfortunately just not priced correctly to get the rating it deserves.

What happened…. I used this app 2 nights ago and it was the same app I know and love. I open it today and suddenly the saved recipe section is different. Searching by saved recipes is kind of cool, but it takes so long to load. The old version had the top ribbon show your saved recipes that matched whatever search you made so I don’t see what this new saved recipe search is really adding other than a loading screen. Also the recipe count maxes out at 999, I saved additional recipes and the number did not change. The main thing that I do NOT like is I cannot find a catalog of the recipes that I marked as “cooked” anymore. This is a major loss for me, as this was how I found old favorites and kept track of all the NYTimes recipes I’ve actually made. Overall, I really don’t appreciate the changes to the saved recipes section. The UI is worse, it takes longer to load, and recipes are MORE difficult to find. I don’t understand why the developers chose to change this section and I wish it would go back to how it was before.

Meat. I know we should reduce the amount of meat we eat and I have, eating lots of fish, eggs and some cheese. I eat lots of vegetables, but don’t count on them alone to provide enough protein. And I am sick of all the quinoa, etc. I am getting tired of chicken, even though I give you an A+ for your chicken recipes. But I still enjoy red meat occasionally. The few meat recipes offered, that are not stews, are few and far between. Luckily, I enjoy a sautéed chop when I do eat red meat. Although I once loved to cook and was good at it, I now find that I REALLY don’t like cooking for just myself. I rarely entertain, mostly because so many people have food “issues” and planning and cooking a meal for a group is too much of a hassle. And one more thing. Too many of your recipes require too many ingredients that I don’t have or want to buy. When I go to restaurants I really enjoy that kind of food.

Good app, not perfect, great recipes. I started using this app when I became the primary cook in the house and realized I didn’t know how to cook many things that were suitable for a whole family rather than just a young bachelor. I find the recipe variety to be great with a good mix of simple and complicated, and a variety of cuisines to choose from. The moderated community notes are a great addition to most recipes that can help you tweak a recipe in a direction more to your taste or warn you of common pitfalls that may lie ahead. My only gripe with this app (and it doesn’t keep this from being a five star review) is that the interface and what you can or can’t do with it sometimes leaves some things to be desired. The inability to navigate to a recipe directly from the grocery list is baffling to me. That said, improvements are continually made and it’s clear they’re made with an eye to satisfying the needs of cooks actually in the kitchen. I would be genuinely surprised if someone told me they tried this app and were disappointed enough not to keep using it.

Caregiving Support!. After over 35 years of teaching, I finally retired and was able to slow down and enjoy life. Sadly less than half a year later, those dreams were dashed when I suddenly found myself a full time caregiver for my husband. On top of that, the pandemic hit, and our world shrunk down to a five-room condo and leaving home was too dangerous to even think about. As options dwindled, I filled my days with activities that could be done safely. Planning and preparing daily meals became a welcome outlet! Thanks to that NYT cooking section and app, I have endless meals to try, and as things gradually open up once again, I have bright spots in my otherwise often challenging days, when I can forget, if only for a moment, that life can still be fun! My endless thanks to NYT for keeping me sane!

Almost perfect. This is my go-to place for finding and then organizing recipes. It is easy to use, and wonderful for exploring and for finding help on cooking techniques. The ability to add recipes from other online sites is a generous plus. The whole design of the app is elegant and clean. My one (minor, but...) complaint that keeps from getting this 5 stars is that the categories were added a few releases ago and I cannot override or change them. I had already set up my own categories at that point and the “enforced” ones are more numerous and also more general than I like. The Brunch category for example duplicates a category I had set up, but about 80% of our selections match—do I sort through each group and modify (tricky to do on a mobile phone!) so I can delete my old Brunch category, or do I leave both of them.....grrrr. Some of the new categories are general—Dinner for example—where I would rather set up my own according to type of food—casserole, meat, nonmeat, etc. I would like to be able to do away with the NYT defined categories altogether, but can’t see a way to do that. So I am left with all their new categories, many of my own, and lots of duplication. It’s frustrating in an otherwise well designed app. I still consider it my favorite and highly recommend it.

I LOVE this app!. I love this app--it's so convenient to have so many recipes (and ideas) so readily available. The feedback and conversation about almost every recipe is tremendously helpful--and having access to these recipes--including some that I've saved to my recipe box from elsewhere--on my phone is incredibly useful--easier than hauling the laptop around (do I really want that in my kitchen anyway?) and beats printing out endless pieces of paper. My only regret is that the columns that come with the recipes aren't up here too--but I'm realistic enough to believe that might be impractical in this space. I'm sorry there are folks who are upset about having to pay a bit--quality journalism isn't free. I've subscribed to the Times online for years--it's not that expensive AND you get the newspaper as well as this treasure trove of cooking ideas.

NYT sandbox. Does not play well with others. I really dislike this app. It is not an all purpose recipe app. It only is really useful for recipes published in the New York Times. Well I can save recipes to my “recipe box”, I cannot search the recipe box. Instead I must search New York Times recipes to see if I can find the one I’m looking for. Even worse while I can save recipes from the Internet to my recipe box, they often or saved without an image and in brackets saying “name not available”. There is no way to edit the name to make it useful. This is particularly the case for recipes saved from the Washington Post. And when I open up recipes that have been saved from other locations to find out what is in them because they have no name, and then close the recipe because it’s not the one I was looking for, it does not return me to the place in the list of recipes I had opened it from, but defaults back to the recipes saved from NYT so I have to scroll down to continue to hunt and peck to find my the non-NYT recipe I was looking for.

Worth the subscription!. I dragged my feet for years because I hate signing up for things because so many companies make it hard to cancel. NYT made so much of their COVID coverage for free so I found myself on their site a lot and received their emails so I figured I would give the NYT Cooking app a try. I have tried so many cooking apps over the years and haven’t really kept using them but my trial is up and now I don’t know that I want to give up NYT Cooking! I really like how the ingredients and prep are on different tabs, so that I don’t have to scroll. I find the reviews are really helpful too, as some people will post a twist or advice about achieving best results. The pictures are great and I really appreciate how to app stays lit so that I don’t have to touch my phone with dirty hands while I’m cooking. Its easy to bookmark recipes to save for later and offers an easy filter or free form text search. They really couldn’t make it easier unless they came to my house and did it for me, thank you NYT!

My Go To. I am an avid home cook and UX professional — that makes me really hard to please when it comes to a cooking site / app. The NY Times is one of the most reliable recipe sites out there that combines accuracy (you can depend on the ratios and cook-times), flavor combinations, and ease. Their recipes save work without cutting corners on the quality of the outcome. Whether I need ideas for a quick weeknight meal or something special for the weekend, I know I can count on NYT. Further, their app is intuitive and effortless. They surface ideas, make suggestions, and keep track of what I’ve recently viewed. If I have one area to improve, it’s the recipe box. I’d like to be able to save third party recipes to the app. That way I wouldn’t need more than one on my phone. All in all, this is easily my favorite cooking app.

Was 5 now 4 stars. I love the NYT Cooking app and have used it for many, many years. The recipes are great. The reviews are funny and helpful. BUT I used to be able to save recipes from other sources and store them in folders that I created in the NYT Cooking app. I always admired NYT for not having an inferiority complex and willing to offer this additional service of "other" sites' recipes being housed amongst theirs. Now that extra perk is gone. I even called customer service and asked why this wasn't an option anymore. He gave some lame answer like "we are concentrating our efforts on giving better service..." You WERE offering a great service. Allowing a person to paste a link to a recipe from elsewhere is no skin off your nose! Please bring that back! Or at least to those who are paying full price for the full NYT package! Bah humbug.

Keep going!. Within the past year, I’ve learned I just have to keep going, no matter what! At the moment, I can’t really use the kitchen that I had beautifully remodeled last year. My right arm is in a sling, and my left arm is impaired by having a PICC line in it, so that I can give myself daily IV medication. Thankfully, this is not a permanent situation, but I will have to deal with it for another 3 to 6 months. However, reading recipes from the New York Times cookbook, Looking at the pictures, thinking about what I would have to buy, and what I already have in my cupboard, or my fridge… All of this helps keep me going as do my son and daughter when I have the delicious meals they cook for me. This cookbook, and its weekly reminders of the joy I find in cooking, is the backbone of my recovery. Thanks for that!

A Truly Excellent Product. Why would you pay for a subscription for recipes if you can find lots of free recipes online? Because these are the best dang recipes you’ve ever tasted, and are written and illustrated and explained by people who know what the heck they are doing. No searching through pages and pages mom blogs—packed with so many ads that your browser crashes—to end up with a mediocre meal at the end of it all. This stuff tastes fantastic, and the app runs very smoothly. Also, there are new recipes being added every day, including FANTASTIC suggestions that show up before holidays and at different seasons, so that you can have incredible stuff on the table for Thanksgiving, Chinese New Year, Kwanza, Memorial Day, or whatever else you celebrate. I’ve loved every minute of it for the half year that I’ve had my subscription, and I plan on keeping it forever. I am blown away by the quality of this product.

Transformative. Of course we all know the NYT to be a fantastic (and for some people the only) source. When my spouse began working overnight and we added the Instapot and Braun hand mixers to our tiny San Francisco apartment - this resource became a necessary replacement for about 85% of our spontaneous dining out adventures. I love how readers (chefs) can comment directly on the recipe or ingredients (worth 2 stars). I also love how this can be nearly added to your personal journaling or self care routines (worth another 2 stars). The NYT have selected fairly achievable efforts - but a Whole Foods or accessible farmer’s markets really help with the projects. Be prepared to pay more than restaurant prices and to handle leftovers - kind of not allowed in our small apartment - that is where the overnight colleagues come in. You’ll hopefully come to this app for the creativity and life choices and stay for the compliments and gratitude of others. Food and shared food experiences is one of the strongest pillars of a life well lived.

Thus covers it all. New York Times recipe app has changed the way I search for recipes. By that I mean, it’s the only recipe resource that I need. Gone are the days of recipe book to recipe book to website to website. They have made things so effortless. If you are a big recipe hunter you will love what this app has to offer. These are not just recipes from your domestic divas that you might follow. You will find chefs from all over the world. Some you will know of and many more to discover and love. You can save a recipe on the recipe page or even from the page of recipes before you even open it. It has an option to look at recently viewed recipes which is great. Sometimes I like to take different things from several different recipes and don’t want to print them all so I go to recently viewed and just flip back and forth. I also enjoy the reviewers. Most are smart, fun and add an extra layer of learning. I have always loved to cook but didn’t realize that I could enjoy it even more but I definitely do.

Great Basic App - Needs Refinement. Overall the app works great and we’re having great time with the recipes available. The UI is good but on the iPad it only makes so-so usage of the screen. Otherwise, it’s easy to read especially as you load up a receipt but a couple of things about the app irritate us when we use it to shop, prep, and ultimately cook. First the shopping thing… There needs to be an option to copy copy the ingredients to the clipboard or at the very least Apple notes. I hate having to copy the long list of ingredients and then clean it up in notes. Second, adding an option to divide the ingredient list by portions would help so much. I’ve definitely been guilty of forgetting to divide an ingredient near the end of a recipe. Lastly, please add an option for the screen to remain awake, at least on the iPad version. It’s so annoying having to tap the screen or unlock after being in the midst of cooking.

This app inspires. The NYT cooking app has given a new lease on life to my nightly dinner prep. I search the app almost every evening for inspiration about how to make a tasty meal from the random items in my fridge - that still-snowy-white cauliflower I bought a week ago, the frozen shrimp, the impulse purchase of a new harissa sauce. It never fails me. If I don’t have all the ingredients in a recipe, I don’t run to the store, but improvise. I substitute parsley for cilantro, sweet onions for leeks, or just omit. I love that all the recipes are attributed to chefs I’ve come to know from regular reading of the Times, so I can prioritize my favorites, whose tastes are a good match for my household’s. This alone makes the app far more reliable than the recipes that pop up on a random Google search. If I happen to be connected to a printer, I print a hard copy for reference in the kitchen. If not, I prop up my smart phone or tablet on the kitchen counter, fetch my ingredients from the convenient list at the top, and switch over to a news program to stave off kitchen ennui while I chop and simmer. My only complaint is that the recipes tend to underestimate prep and cooking time, so I’ve learned it’s best to allow some extra time. But the $39/year was a great expenditure.

The Best for Cooks. To me, this app is second to none. The content is created by fantastically talented, creative and straightforward food people. No fluff to the descriptions, just the facts you need and some additional insight that will make you a wiser cook. Simple emails up to the most complex, explained in laymen’s terms. It is searchable, creates shopping lists (where you can delete items you already have!) and easy to use when executing your chosen dish(es). I read the daily/weekly emails for the past year, got a free trial of the app, and now have the app (I couldn’t live without it, actually) and can say that my cooking skills and creativity have been elevated dramatically! If you like to cook and want to get better, this app is for you. Combine it with the emails from the Times staff and you’re basically getting an education (or refresher) that will help you grow your skills and culinary sophistication one meal at a time!

Literally Life changing. I am an enthusiastic cook during normal times. Living in Seattle and fortunate to be able to source great ingredients—specifically fish and shellfish just hours out of the water, meal preparation has never been a chore. But during pandemic times, even the occasional special meal “out” has been put on ice since February, due to a high risk situation that makes it really not worth the bother. So I’ve sharpened my knives, organized my pantry and soldiered on. I’m not generally a cookbook user—yes, I do collect them and subscribe to all the usual suspects on a monthly or quarterly basis, but I rely on a book or magazine more for a concept to riff on or a food trend to explore. But when I began delving into NYT Cooking—a part of my Times subscription at large, that changed. There are so many great recipes it makes it easy to cook anything and everything from a pantry pasta to the most elaborate meal and have an excellent outcome—and fun along the way. I am a lifestyle journalist, so I love the context and backstory of each recipe—reading the accompanying article is a great source of pleasure. But these recipes really work and the shopping list tool is a handy helper. In short, I’ve found an endless source of material, entertainment and great food at my fingertips. Thank you for keeping me inspired and cooking with joy! ❤️

Limited Content. I have used and enjoyed this app for a number of years. The recipes are usually quite good and the ability to save ones you would like to try is wonderful. This is one of my first resources when looking for a specific recipe for something like mushroom soup or chocolate soufflé. However; I have recently become very frustrated with one newly changed facet of the app. Previously, I was able to read the food articles as well as the recipes as part of my paid subscription. For example, the app will list a recipe and in its blurb would be referenced and linked a cooking column from which the recipe originated. I enjoyed reading the cooking articles and seeing the other related recipes. Now, however, the app is asking me to pay for an additional subscription to the newspaper to read these articles. This seems quite silly to me as I’m already paying for the cooking content and was previously able to read all of the cooking content for my annual subscription fee. I’m not trying to read yesterday’s front page headlines, I’m trying to read a 5 year old cooking column. This limitation has very much decreased my enjoyment and usage of the app. I am now considering dropping my cooking subscription since I can no longer access all of the ‘cooking’ content.

This App deletes your saved recipes...completely unacceptable. I’ve been using this app from the very beginning, saving my favorite recipes and using them frequently. Recently I went to my saved recipe box and noticed that over half the recipes were gone, and all of those that I had flagged as “cooked” were no longer there. I sent a note to technical service immediately and still days later haven’t received any assistance. This is completely unacceptable. This is not a free App, this service is overpriced to begin with, and it is absolutely unacceptable for dozens and dozens of saved recipes to completely disappear with no record and no recourse. No different than if I buy a cookbook and the publishers come into my house and remove it. So beware if you are thinking of paying for this App. You may be better off looking elsewhere.

Excellent recipes - wish they were more timely. I love the NYT cooking app and use it regularly. I do have some observations/complaints: 1. Recipe of the day - recipes that are clearly event/seasonal specific are not posted far enough in advance to be useful. E.g. todays Fresh Ham with balsamic glaze posted the day before Easter, a great pie recipe was posted March 13. In order for a recipe to be useful, people need a little more lead time to plan (a week?). Yes we can search ahead for what we want, and I do, but I’ve had a few sad moments seeing a recipe id love to make for Thanksgiving or Christmas the day(s) before or even day of the holiday — too late to matter. 2. Search capabilities need to be improved as many others have noted, with more fields and limit/sort options. 3. Ratings seem a bit skewed — i dont think I’ve ever seen a posted recipe rated below 4 stars, even if many of the comments are negative. How can this be remedied? I feel like epicurious does a much better job of “using the whole rating scale.”

Content great, app not as great. App would be improved if: -Save option “floated” or were at the bottom of the actual recipe instead of being at the top near the picture, where you can’t see ingredients, instructions, or reviews and presumably wouldn’t even know if you wanted to save it yet -comments section weren’t glitchy - as it is, the comments rearrange themselves at random, as you’re reading them, which is frustrating because they’re usually super helpful (NYT home cooks are awesome at sharing tips and suggestions, they’re seriously the best and often hilarious/endearing) -comments could be edited and could be switched from public to private and vice versa - the default is to make them public, so if you forget to toggle the switch to Private before you save, everyone will see your note to yourself and you can’t undo it I’m not convinced the app is any better than just using an internet browser and looking at recipes that way, but if you don’t want to use a browser on your phone (or don’t have one), the app is convenient if there’s no computer or tablet handy. Also worth noting: when you have a recipe open, your iPhone won’t auto-lock, which is a feature I appreciate but it can drain your battery if you forget about it, so keep that in mind. Happy cooking!

Good App, poor integration with NY Times. I like this app. The recipes are interesting and the steps are clear. Once you get to the recipe, all is well. A couple of versions ago, the App stopped working seamlessly with the online version of the Times. I used to click on a recipe in the Times and it would get me into the app. Then it wanted me to add my ID and password to open the App even if the App was already open. Like another used it then would get stuck in a loop. The advice from the Times tech people (reinstall) produced no results. Subsequent updates have produced no change. So now if I see a recipe in the Times I go to the App and search. The search features is not great. It may take 2 or 3 tries to find the recipe shifting from names to principal ingredients. Sometimes I don’t find it. I assume it has yet to be posted on the App.

Inspiration and direction for the beat up cook. BC (before Covid) I looked to NYT and its amazing parade of food artists for a new idea or a new way to entertain guests or wow family (so the kids would visit more often) with new dishes or a twist on the old ones. DC (during) is making this more important than ever even if there are only the two of us in it together for the ling haul. Food is a variable when we are all starved for social stimulus and the normal variations in life that are stymied by C. Like so many, I’ve made bread for the first time—successfully—thanks to Mark Bittman and countless reader tips along with his own updates to a recipe that should be awarded the Nobel Peace prize. Who can disagree over hot bread and butter? And the perfected recipes that pop up daily or I find as I search the site have resulted from the in perfect hasslebacks, amazing skillet chops and steaks, 1137 recipes for amazing chicken dishes. Honestly, I now have a collection of food porn pictures and I never photographed anything but the beautiful cakes I made BC. I bought my sister a subscription for her birthday because every night now she wants a pix of what’s for dinner and an explanation of how to make it. Totally worth it! It’s my cooking Geritol!

Great cooking app!. When Covid hit, I retired and became the cook for our household, as my wife worked remotely. I wanted to learn to cook differently from the way that my parents taught me. I had no experience previously with the New York Times, but I had tried recipes from other newspapers. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the recipes were basic, straightforward, and easy to cook. They are also delicious! Some of them have become our favorites. When we decide to do a meatless Monday, the baked feta cheese on the sheet pan is my favorite. I would recommend this app for anyone who wants delicious food that is easy to prepare and uses commonly available ingredients. Once you have mastered the basics, it is very easy to experiment with cuisines from around the world. I have found Georgian (the country, not the state) spices to be to my liking. Thank you to the New York Times for making this app available with my subscription.

App Changes Not Great. I have used (and loved) this app for years. The recipes are great and I love the comment sections for tweaks or efficiency advice. By far my favorite feature of this app is how the screen stays “awake” while you have a recipe open. I love being able to minimally touch my phone while cooking. However, in the latest update it seems this only works now if you have the recipe in “start cooking” mode. I absolutely hate this feature. All it does it put the recipe in bigger font, which for me makes it frustrating because I can only see so much without scrolling. It also separates the ingredients and preparation into separate pages. Not every recipe requires a full mise en place. It’s really frustrating to have to switch back and forth. I just want to be able to see the whole recipe without having to constantly wake and unlock my phone. I have loved this app but the latest changes are just frustrating.

THE go-to for food!. You have to understand that this app is a lot more than a collection of excellent recipes. It’s a talk show, a set of instruction videos, a daily food essay that gets you excited to be back in the kitchen ASAP. AND a collection of recipes from the best of the best. OK - so - there are just a few things that may be less than perfect. 1) I have to go elsewhere for Mexican food (REAL Mexican food) which happens to be my personal yum. I lived in Mexico and know how amazing that food can be - the fresh fruit batidos, the aguas, the taqueria salsas, the rich mole sauces, the soups with squash flowers.... 2) The recipe book can be difficult to manipulate. Deleting recipes from it is not intuitive. I’d love more options - like easily making up a set of recipes for a dinner party then dissolving (or back-filing) the set when the party’s over. Or saving a recipe with my personal fiddles and edits attached. But I LOVE this app, this daily inspiration. And - hey - my family and friends now believe I’m a good cook! Where did THAT come from? Guess!

Excellent recipes. I had a year off work waiting for a work permit and picked up cooking which has since become a pretty major part of my life. The recipes on this app got me excited to cook and really got my going on that journey. Since starting 2 years ago, I’ve got 5 weeks of recipes in rotation, and have started to pick up more books and collate recipes externally in Notion. There’s so many great recipes here I’m actually reaching the limit of how much variety I can handle. My previous issues were about the saving system but that was improved massively. I think the note taking feature could be better. Upvoting and photo uploads would be cool, and the grocery list could be improved to be something more like what MealLime has, but those are minor things. One sorely needed improvement is more detailed cooking times. Currently cooking time ignores prep, which makes it an almost useless number. Time stages like prep, chilling, cooking, slow cooking time etc would be helpful

Creative and reliable. I own (too) many cookbooks, but since this service got into high gear the books are languishing on the shelves. The range is broad, the instructions clear, the outcomes generally satisfying. The app uses simple computer techniques for searching and grouping and filing very effectively, and having your own virtual Recipe Box to which you can add your own comments is handy indeed. The prep times are sometimes understated, and sometimes I disagree with the relative proportions, but the differences have not been serious and even a mildly experienced cook can handle the details with relative ease. Users’ comments are welcomed and archived, so you can easily benefit from other cooks’ experiences and creative suggestions. If a recipe has been on the website for a while you can often discover through the comments extremely helpful nuances and techniques. And the recipes include a broad variety of cuisines, making for some fun and delicious new dishes for the family table. Thank you, New York Times.

Great app - could use a bit more to make it better. I love NYT recipes! I love reading the forum commentary and definitely read the comments about each recipe I am interested in. Here are some suggestions though. I would really like to be able to vote whether or not a comment is helpful within the app (option only available on desktop version). I would like to be able to comment back directly to a comment (like to ask a question to a commenter). I would like the option to save a specific comment to my recipe box (Allrecipes does this. Very useful.) Lastly - if you accidentally click on the “stars”, which is a common place to click to view comments on many other websites, you can’t back out of the mistake - you are forced to rate a recipe that you probably have not even made. This has happened to me multiple times! Ugh. (Note this last comment may be in the phone and not desktop or app version. Cant remember. But it is most definitely a flaw).

I love you.. I love you. I am a mediocre cook, trapped in a pandemic, with my daughter in law ( and son) and their two new babies! This is lovely, but did I mention my daughter in law is an excellent cook and baker? Caroline DOESNT make cakes as good as Patricia! She’s amazing! Her parents were Magalise ( from Madagascar) ( I hope that’s the people, not the language!) and she slept on a shelf in the bakery as a baby. Obviously, she picked some things up! BUT she also makes delicious dinners and lunches and whatever else you want. With NYT cooking, I can sometimes fake it and produce something delicious! Like Ropa Vieja! Wonderful and impressive! Also, before we came to New Orleans to wrangle babies, I used NYT cooking to trick my used to be youngest grandchild, Jase, into putting down his phone. He was buried in it, 24/7. At 17, it was difficult to converse with him......okay, impossible. Then one day, I thought! What requires you to put down your phone! Cooking!! And I lured him into the kitchen with flank steak, peppers and onions. It was glorious! And has continued, and inspired cooking urges in Jase, even when I’m in Louisiana and he’s in Oklahoma! Thank you! I love you.

Fabulous Cauliflower Lemon & Dill recipe, quick & ez. Fabulous dish! It was hard not to get a second helping. I made this for a quick late dinner tonight, with the following mods: I steamed the cauliflower 5 mins 1st, because we wanted to eat it right away. I cut the oil to just 1/3 C & it was plenty! I love them so I used extra scallions, 5 stalks. I was out of parsley, so I cut up the same amount of wild (tender & small) arugula. It was a lovely addition, without harm to the deliciousness of this recipe. I used 5 big cloves of “pressed” garlic, and added an extra 1/2 of a lemon’s juice. I was also out of jalepeño, but a large pinch of red chili flakes gave it flavor & a touch of heat. I also added 1 Tbsp of capers & about 1/4 tsp of the caper juice from the jar. It was a tasty addition. Fresh dill was ruined from the heat (pity) but used 1/3 C + of freshly dried & it was nice & dill-y! Delish! Easy. Quick. I highly recommend this new-to-me Melissa Clark recipe! Even as is, I can tell it would’ve been amazing too! It’s going into regular rotation ❤️ & next time I may add some steamed brown rice to round out this for a plant-based meal! Enjoy!

Making a non-chef look good. I have always been a mediocre cook and an even worse baker... I readily admit to both because, well, it’s true. Because “never say die” is my credo, I have tried over and over again to create deliciousness off of recipes I’ve chosen with inconsistent results (read: terrible tasting food/family and friends who don’t want to hurt my feelings). This has historically put pressure on any recipe I’ve chosen to be both doable and deliver food that tastes good. Plenty of web recipe searching delivered more confusion and inconsistent results. Then, last spring, I discovered the NYT Food app. While there is no miracle cure, this app comes close. I have access to world of resources here that have transformed my cooking life. The way recipes are organized, broken down, and then supported by reader comments is perfect for the me. I can find and have tried recipes in almost every category, from less complicated weeknight main dishes to desserts that have minimized human error and delivered on their promises. Gone are the fearful looks of my family and friends, who seem genuinely happy to have me contribute to Sunday family dinner. I get that I’m on the learning curve, but my skills are SO much better, and I’m enjoying myself along the way. Seriously, thanks!

A great help. This app is one of the few I use daily. The meal planning suggestions have helped me avoid that 4:30 pm panic about what to fix for dinner many times. I don't cook everything in Sam Sifton's suggestions every week, but I usually find at least one or two recipes to add to my own ideas for weekly meal planning. The recipes are as diverse as New York itself, ranging from familiar comfort foods to elegant classic French cuisine, to more exotic Middle Eastern, Asian and African dishes, which are familiar comfort foods in other places. The dessert recipes are amazing! Recipes are clear and easy to follow. It is a great help to be able to pull up a recipe on my tablet, and to be able to read and follow it without wasteful printing. Plus, the printing function works well, for those who would rather spill on paper than on delicate electronics. The recipe ratings and reviews can be sorted by most helpful. Favorite recipes can be saved and organized, which is good, because my list of favorites is becoming unwieldy. Others have mentioned price of the app. Considering the hundreds of dollars I would otherwise spend on cookbooks from these authors, it is a real bargain. Add in the recipe search functions, and the fact that it takes up no more room in my overstuffed bookcases, and it quickly becomes indispensable.

Clarity and Classics—recipes to trust. I love this app and just subscribed to my second year. My favorite thing is the clarity of the writing— from the list of ingredients to the preparation, these recipes are easy to follow. I also like the fact that this organization has access to some really great foodies and national and international recipes—but that access doesn’t mean there are a plethora of choices, which is what I want. I like reaching for my cookbook and finding what I want—not sift through 100+ recipes to find the best. I like that there are very few recipes for specific things, and that these recipes are classics yet modern. This is an app for a cook like me—not daily, but a weekend cook who uses the time to savor the process and want to make something delicious. And in the first year—I committed Jordan Marsh’s blueberry muffin recipe to memory and it’s still such a divine gift to me (I do add more blueberries and sugar sprinkles though!;) 💕

Favorite Recipes, Would love to see a better app. I almost exclusively cook NYT recipes as I’ve been continually impressed by how good they turn out— I suggest this app to all my friends. But I gotta say— it’s a tough sell, let me tell you why. Do I love paying $4 a month, on top of the $4 I pay for the NYT news subscription? No, I think that’s a little much, especially given the sadly unremarkable features (or lack thereof) on the app itself. I gotta say, I stick around for the amazing recipes. But for that extra $4 I would really love to see more out of the app— for example, categorizing by meal or recipe type, search improvements/better filtering, access to videos that have previously been featured on the front page (where do these go?), that sort of thing. I come back to this app all the time and think a lot more people would be hooked too, if the app was a little more user friendly.

Not feeling the love. When I first got it I thought it was great. It has slowly gone downhill though, to the point where it’s not even really useful anymore and definitely not worth the price. It just feels like the app is being neglected, and with every update it gets worse. It was great that you can save recipes from other sites, but now the app no longer shows the pictures of non-NYT recipes so you have to read the title of each one to find what you want. Forget about browsing through your saved recipes to find visual inspiration for dinner! Also, it does not allow you to organize non-NYT recipes into different folders... Thus in order to find anything I have try and remember the exact title of the recipe I’m looking for and scroll through dozens of recipe names hoping to find it. It is literally easier to google it and just find the recipe online again. The final insult was that now it makes you sign in every single time you use it which is a huge PITA... I’m not really worried about someone stealing my recipes! If you’re just saving NYT recipes this would be adequate but if you want to save all your online recipes in one place, look elsewhere. I switched to Paprika.

Love to Cook. I was the wife and mother who hated cooking. Ten years into marriage and motherhood I discovered this subscription through the NYT. I started by making some breads, began watching the videos, reading tips, took on sheet pan meals, and now make all sorts of more complex meals because of the confidence I have built through how friendly this app is and how delicious these meals are. This app has changed my life and I’m now a queen of meals in our house. My kids help me and pick out their favorite dishes and often prefer to eat in than eat out. And I never feel stressed anymore when making homemade dinners. I even have the confidence and know how to put ingredients together without finding specific recipes. We also use this app to plan all our holiday get together and party meals. All thanks to this NYT cooking subscription!

Great for omnivores; vegetarians/vegans not as much.. Like most app users, I expect that the AI behind the apps I use is intelligent enough to provide meaningful personalization. I’ve used this app for 3 years, and my recommended recipes primarily point to meat and cocktails. I’ve never made a single recipe from the app with meat of any kind, so these suggestions are remarkable. And, of course, I can skip over them, but the point of apps (particularly those with a pay wall-at least in part) is that they learn my behavior and then make useful suggestions to help me find the kinds of recipes that in turn bring me back to the app. A lot of the recipes are good, but as this as a review of the app itself, and the app’s AI is a bit lazy, so the review is correspondingly low. Also, a good number of the vegetarian recipes include things like chicken stock and parm, which of course makes it not a vegetarian recipe. And while the omnivore argument is “can’t you just skip it” yes, of course, but I think I can also reasonably expect that a recipe marked vegetarian actually is what it says it is.

The recipes are incredible, the app not so much. The recipes are so worth the money but the app is annoying to use. Anytime your phone screen goes into rest mode (dark after x minutes, whatever your setting), or you are in a different app for too long, the app refreshes you back to the main landing page. Which means you have to search for the recipe you are cooking every time you turn away from the phone. Not helpful when you may only have one finger not dirty and just want to see what ingredient goes in next. Also the saving feature is horrible. I wish they would use the same touch/responsiveness options as Pinterest say, where you can hold down on a recipe and a menu of which recipe box to save it in appears. As it is now, the first time you tap on the save button, no matter how long you hold it down, you can’t save it to an individual recipe list, just your general bookmarks. You must then press and hold on the tiny banner for it to then ask you if you want to save it onto a recipe box, then you go through to find which one. Makes creating quick recipe lists really laborious. I love these recipes so much, that’s the only reason I’m begging for some UI changes!

Threatening emails and dark patterns. I was happy with the app, and then one of my credit cards expired and I forgot to update it. Then came… the slew of threatening-sounding emails saying my payment is “past due,” “urgent billing notice,” etc. So then I had had it and went to cancel the subscription, and that’s when I saw the dark pattern. It says you have to call to cancel, but then you log into your account and there’s another option to cancel by chatting with an agent. There is no other way to cancel your subscription- you can’t do it on your own on the app or website like you can with almost any other subscription service. And if you don’t pay the past due amount for the subscription you weren’t using anyway, you’ll just keep getting the emails. Even after you cancel your subscription. Yikes. I wonder how much money NYT actually gets back this way, and if it actually offsets the cost of having chat and phone agents dealing with subscription cancellations, which I can imagine is one of the top reasons people contact them. Anyway, I was planning to cancel and maybe come back at a later date when I’m done traveling, but because of this dark pattern and threatening emails I plan to never come back. Hope that last $5 was worth it!

The app that turned cooking into a hobby. I used to think that I didn’t enjoy cooking, that cooking was a chore to be avoided or sped through. This app may have turned me — ME! — into a person who cooks for pleasure. You can search for recipes by ingredient so you don’t have to toss out those soon-to-expire items languishing in your fridge. It provides you with daily inspiration recipes, videos on techniques, no-fuss grocery lists, easy-to-follow recipes on (my favorite perk) a screen that does not time out and turn off while your hands are covered in chicken innards. When you find your favorite recipes or just want to create lists of recipes to try, you can add them to your saved recipe box so you don’t have to go searching for recipes when you’re already hangry. I’ve had so much fun trying new foods, with less time and hassle. Heartily recommend! Enjoy your transformation into a hobby cook.

Get It - it’s Really Good. I was on the fence for awhile about subscribing to NY Times Cooking, but recently took the plunge. I am so happy I did. It is an awesome resource for cooking/baking ideas, right at your fingertips and available wherever the “idea to cook something” hits you. Best part is how user friendly it is laid out. Very well designed format enables you to browse for great recipe ideas with just an inkling of what you may want to try, you usually end up with a recipe that pushes your boundaries. But just as easily, if you have a specific recipe in mind, you can find it super fast. Also the recipes are laid out great. Ingredients tab and process tab with quality photo and overview of the recipe experience is top notch. If your on the fence for subscribing, jump off - it’s definitely worth it!

Terrific source of recipes. There’s always some new recipe to try in this collection. You can rate whatever you make, save it in your own recipe box, write comments and read other cooks’ comments. The recipes tend to be based on ingredients found on the East Coast or in gourmet shops, but no one says you can’t make your own version with stuff you have on hand. I’ve learned a lot of new combinations and methods to prepare food we get from our CSA, too. The one complaint I have is inconsistent ingredient measurements. In some recipes, flour is weighed in grams, in others, measured in cups. Sometimes a recipe might call for 4 zucchini when it would be clearer to measure in pounds. The recipe search engine could be improved to allow searches by more than one word. If I want a recipe that uses green beans, I have to search through all the bean recipes.

Frustratingly, limited, marginally useful app. As I thumb through the reviews, the good ones are mostly about the recipes and the critical ones are about the app. I can see why. There really isn’t any benefit over using the browser. This is a frustratingly, limited, marginally useful app. The app’s filter function is hidden behind the search function so one must search, before one can use the filters. The filter doesn’t affect the browse button contents nor does the app learn from the recipes I’ve saved for making suggestions in the browsing section. For instance, as a vegan, all of the meat based recipes in the browsing section are clutter. There’s no easy way to filler the recipes for (or against) certain ingredients or categories of ingredients, such as fruits, vegetables, legumes, etc. The app can’t filter based on a rating system that considers the food pyramid. I give it two stars because it can serve up recipes and it does have a search box.

Excellent recipes, Elegant app. I use this app on the iPad and iPhone many times a week and it has really improved our range of meals! I now turn to it first - even though we have many cookbooks - as the search function always reveals new ways of using an ingredient. The photos are appealing, serve as good models for plating the dish, and generally represent the end result accurately. The ratings and comments are also really helpful. I also like the way the iPad app stays on while cooking, rather than timing out to the lock screen. Wishlist for iPad app version: (1) nutrition info, (2) scaling recipes function, (3) ability to copy from comments and/or pin them to top of list for future reference, (4) dimming after a couple of minutes of inactivity, and undimming with an easy tap — to save screen and battery life.

Cannot beat this cookbook!. Every chef will have a decent take on most recipes, which will do in a pinch. But no chef and no team is going to have the traditional recipe for every dish in every cuisine on the globe with suggestions on what you can do to make it fantastic. New York City is one of a handful of cities in which every country and ethnicity is represented. Where else can you find what is a reasonable substitute when a rare ingredient is out of season, or how to manage a hard dried stored version of a hard to find and mostly unknown ingredient? If my friend is homesick for the Singaporean Chicken and Rice she grew up on, I want to have the real thing when she gets here and I will look here. If I want to reinstate our family tradition of making sweet chile rellenos the day before a holiday and I can’t remember how much cloves to add, I am going to look here. It is possible to have a cookbook for most cuisines, but not all. But someone in NY remembers making dumplings with their mom in Tibet before the family escaped and arrived in NYC and they will contribute the recipe if someone needs it. I have not looked for every recipe I mentioned so I hope I don’t disappoint but if you need one that is not here, then ask! And it WILL be here. This is, hands down, my go to if I want the REAL recipe for…well…Anything!

Favorite section of the NYT. I havnt always been a cook. Or even a baker, although I took to that younger. I spent my first 15 years doing some baking. I used to love decorating cakes. Then I went to college and then life went on. And I never really baked again, and certainly never bothered to learn to cook well. Fast forward a few decades and I’ve taught myself to cook. Really cook. Well. People want an invitation to my house for dinner. They love it when I stop by with some extra couscous salad or leftovers from a holiday meal. I’m not bragging, im sharing my total shock that this has come to pass. Many of the recipes I’ve made have come from the NYT food section. I can’t wait for Wed to see what I may be making Thur. Velvet fish? Yum. Mushroom appetizers? I’m in (and I don’t really like mushrooms). And more. I’ve also picked up baking again. Made the lemon coconut cake form this weeks paper. Fantastic!! This app allows me to save and comment on adjustments I’ve made - which I do. Velvet fish sauce needs to be 1.5 the recipe. And needs more heat. The butternut squash “florets” need more purée and a little less sugar. Etc. But I find many of my goto recipes come from the NYT. And of course, also ideas on which cookbooks to invest in.

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Wonderful array of quality recipes. Purchasing the NYT cooking app is the best few dollars you will ever spend. A vast corpus of quality recipes will revitalise your love of cooking and it will delight your family. Do yourself a flavour!

They wheeled me in. After getting my NY times subscription I subscribed to anything that interested me. The apps are all good, this one exceptional. I go shopping with it, I cook from it. Thanks for creating something so simple.

Great food app. Great way to store recipes from all over the internet.

If there was a metric system option available, it’d be true love. I’ve used NYT Cooking for years and mostly love it - the food and writing are great, the recipes (mostly) easy to follow and the comments are easily my favourite thing to read, both for tips and comedy gold. I just really, like really really, wish there was an option to convert measurements to the metric system. Most food blogs and other recipe sites have ‘US/Metric’ option these days, so it seems a bit mad that NYT doesn’t follow suit, especially considering its international readership and the tiny fact that no other country uses the imperial system.

Very good, just measurements are not handy. I really like the descriptions, the choice of recipes etc. It just would be good if one could change the settings to have it in metric and Celsius. I cannot cook in imperial and Fahrenheit so it stops me using the app. Luckily some do have grams as well.

Best cooking app. I’ve tried a few cooking apps but this is clearly the best. I love the videos and the “basics” section. Only thing I’d change is it should have metric quantities, come on, 99% of the world cooks in metric!

Approachable and yummy recipes. I have made the Morning Glory Muffins and intend to make the sheet pan macaroni and cheese, bolognese sauce as well as the tofu recipes, soon. I don’t know if it’s because of Covid-19 or not, but I have found NYT cooking especially inspiring, motivational and approachable. With an easy to use format, I get excited now about making one of the recipes. Haven’t really been that excited about cooking for years. And I love reading the columns beforehand, to get my cook’s juices flowing. Thank you for the inspiration in Australia where we cook more than barbecue actually, too!

Three cheers from Australia!. I love NY Times cooking and am an avid subscriber. I live in Sydney, Australia which is a very multicultural city so all the NY Times recipes resonate and the ingredients are readily available here. Plus I get to cook some brilliant American classic recipes! Thank you NY Times Cooking!

Exciting Recipes. Love the adventure of trying new recipes and ideas.

First class. I read a recommendation of the app and decided to invest. So worthwhile in terms of variety of techniques and cuisines represented. I love reading the notes that enhance the cooking experience. I am in Australia and find it super easy to follow the recipes- I have become an expert at converting between imperial and metric measurements. It is now my daily ritual to check out the recipe of the day.

Fantastic and creative recipes. I love NYT cooking app. Easy to use, amazing recipes ranging from easy to complex flavours. I am always able to find some new twists to “boring” vegetables like zucchini! A great selection of world - wide cooking too. Really good.

Love love love. Exciting recipes sometimes American differ from Aussie staples but it’s good to research compare and know

The Metric System.. Given that the app is on the internet and has a global readership, why is the New York Times Cooking app written solely in the British System of Weights and Measures? A simple toggle switch in the app’s Settings, which can display measures in either Imperial or Metric, can solve this issue once and for all.

Should not have ads on a paid app. It’s a nice app with great recipes, for a paid app it should definitely not have Google ads.

Great recipes. Not in metric which is annoying.. The recipes are great and the comments are helpful. Just wish they could have metric as well as imperial.

METRIC CONVERSION PLEASE. LOVE the app and the recipes! It would be greatly appreciated if there was a setting option for metric measurements, as this would make the app more accessible to many people 😁

Down under. Vodka in pastry? Is this a lost in translation moment? I went ahead in good faith, on my life long quest to make perfect pastry every time. This pastry delivered the right look, the right texture, the right flavour, complementing my egg and tomato filling. Chemistry in cooking at work. Thanks from coffee Mecca Melbourne. Rhonda

Metric Measurements please. Love, love this app. Have the hardback book and love the app equally. As a non-American I would very much appreciate metric equivalents to the Imperial system used. Particularly like being able to apply filters and seek out additional recipes in particular categories.

Love this app. Food always inspires and dishes are reliable and delicious The writers are also witty and approachable

Idea for the app. I love the app, I use it for a lot of my cooking! I have an idea for a useful feature where while you're cooking a recipe you can set up a lingering notification for the recipe! I often find myself hopping into other apps and things while I'm doing some mise en place or checking a measurement or if the phone calls asleep while I work. I would love it if I could tap right back to the recipe like I do with Google maps or a voice recorder. I don't know how achievable this is but it would be exceptionally useful, hope this helps, thank you!

I’m a better cook now. My cooking has improved out of sight since I have been using the NYT cooking blog for my inspiration. I love the blurbs that come with the recipes, and the focus on real food.

Such tasty ideas. I love this website. Easy to search and fabulous never fail recipes. But the best bit is the emails with suggestions

The mountain comes to Mohammed. After years of buying cookery tomes, where only a scant few recipes from each made it to the status of continual repeat, I have found my ‘go to’in NYT cookery. Tested through 2 years of lock down this site was a source of inspiration, fun and mostly wonderful meals. I recommend reading the reviews following each recipe for tips and variations. Enjoy!

Love it.. Have had it for a while. Always terrific.

Frustrating technical app. Loved the free app and was an early buyer of the 12 month subscription. Kept kicking me out and after the second time off I could never get in. Customer service was useless. Basically told me they couldn’t work it out though could see my membership on the system. A frustrating experience.

I’d give it 5 stars if it had measurements in grams. If you’re selling an app to an international market about cooking, allow people to see the amounts in grams and millilitres instead of ounces and cups. Not only is it a more precise way doing measurements in grams, it’s also acknowledging that America is one of the few places that uses ounces etc. Otherwise, I love the app!

NYT cooking is incredible!. I recentllynsubscribed to NYT cooking and am loving it! I am a very keen cook and have a vast collection of cookbooks, however I find myself being so inspired by the daily NYT cooking suggestions; easy to follow and every recipe I have tried so far is totally delicious: highly recommended:

Fabulous!. Love the collection of recipes with delicious options from all over the world. Great US favorites to remind me of my years there.

Needs more recipes and features to warrant cost. Good recipes but limited range and doesn’t rival other free services (like googling a recipe). Added features would help attract people to pay.

Beautiful and Useful. Love the variety of foods, categories for easy browsing and quality of recipes.

Love recipes… appHard to navigate. If I click from Google to the app it often diverts me to a different recipe. I have trouble finding saved recipes too.

My go-to recipe guide. My partner has taken up a series of dietary restrictions to help manage rheumatoid arthritis. As a classically trained cook, these restrictions take me away from much of my training and experience. My classic cookbooks get dusty on the shelves. Adapting those recipes to fit her diet produce lack-lustre results. Then I discovered NYT cooking and I scan it a couple of times a week to find delicious thing that meet her requirements, either straight-up, or with minimal substitutions or omissions. I also collect others that appeal to me, but don’t suit here. I’m seriously contemplating getting rid of my cookbook library altogether. And that is a BIG step for any trained cook. Those books have been as important in the kitchen as my knives, so this is the highest praise I can offer. Thank you so much. The thrill in her eyes when I produce a new dish is priceless to me.

Awesome. Love this site for great recipes and the way it is presented and reviews that are very helpful in tweaking recipes to individual tastes

Great app - PLEASE add unit conversion function. Great app - brilliant resource - very user friendly - please add the ability to view the app in metric units. That would make it truly international and far more convenient for anyone who doesn’t live in the US with the archaic and whacky Imperial system.

No metric, so useless outside US. First, you need to know that this app is useless without a paid subscription. Fair enough provided the app is good. I downloaded it and luckily realised before paying any money that the app does not use metric. So this app is pointless for the 90% of the world that doesn’t used pounds and ounces. Too bad.

International appeal yet stubbornly American measuremenys. Love NYT cooking and the brilliant chefs. The readers’ comments and tips are the best in the world. Please consider a toggle like Nigella has to convert for UK and Aussie cools. Would be greatly appreciated. Thank you NYT.

Recipes great, app is glitchy. I love the recipes from the New York Times but this app is abysmal to use. Every single time I open it, it has logged me out and I have to log back in. I’ve emailed support about it and their suggestion was to delete and reinstall, which I did, and I still have the same issue.

Recipes need to include metric conversions. The app is available and for download to a global audience - I have acquired from the Australian App Store. As such I think you should be making the effort to publish recipients with metric information since far more of the world uses metric than not. Thanks!

Offer a metric option and it’d be perfect. Given nearly everyone outside the USA uses the metric system, it’d make a terrific app perfect if users were given the option.

Great app, few recipe organisation options. The recipes are fantastic, but really hard to search saved recipes, and nutritional information is hard to come by.

Perfect … except I’m in the wrong season!. Really great ap. Ideas, tips and recipes to make just about anything. Only problem - I live in Melbourne, Australia, and therefore all the seasonal suggestions (whether via ap or newsletters) are six months out of kilter. Could someone create a hack to match suggestions with users local season? Thanks

Great resource. I use it often

Great app for recipes. This is a great app for storing NYT recipes. It allows you to sort and search easily, recipes are easy to use, menus are easy to plan.

Handy; very very handy!. There are a number of great functions that make the NYTimes Cooking app work: - knowing you can find that great recipe you spotted whilst reading the NYTimes - getting great stories and tips from the featured authors and other readers - ways to save favourites and categorise them to create an easy, personalised reference library - Mouth watering photos for indulging in armchair cooking (like armchair travel, but with food adventures!)

Great app for cooking enthusiasts. Fantastic recipes and easy to use app. Would be great to have a metric option.

Very comprehensive. Very comprehensive cooking site. Really interesting recipes with interesting combinations. Just mastering pounds to kilos as I live in Australia with a different metric system.

Please fix the jumpy comments. Love the app and content, but please do something about the recipe comments jumping around all over the place. It’s been like this forever, surely this can be fixed?

New York Times Recipes A Winner!. Absolutely love experimenting with the huge range of NYT recipes! Thank you

Collaboration would be great. Love the app but would be better if you could collaborate with friends, partner, or family

FMac. Great recipes and app BUT the lack of a metric setting option for measurements and oven temps is incredibly annoying for non-Americans so probably won’t subscribe.

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We are so lucky. To have access to all these great recipes and articles etc from the NYT.

Don’t want ads when I pay for a subscription. The reason I pay for a subscription is to avoid having ads in the recipes. I may as well not pay for this and use any of the great recipe sites on the internet if I can’t avoid having advertisements while I am cooking. This could be a deal breaker; I will see how I feel when it’s time to renew.

Lots of great things but some simple stuff missing. This site is great for the variety of recipes, their quality and the tips and tricks by fellow foodies but the practical stuff, like sorting recipes that you have or haven’t made, just aren’t there. Kind of makes me wonder if they run changes and updates past real users…seems not.

Terrific app. What would I do without you New York Times cooking? I can hardly remember cooking before I discovered you at the beginning of the pandemic. Between the pandemic and some health issues, we are not eating out much so I have been cooking and cooking and cooking. The hardest part is figuring out what to make each night. Thanks to your inventive staff and guest cooks I have much to choose from. We’ve added several favorites to our rotation including gnocchi with brussels sprouts, shrimp with tomatoes and feta and many others. Great work!

Great!. Overall a really good app and well organized. Love the photography. Sometimes I wish they’d cover more ‘viral’ content and have a larger, easier to find section for ‘How To’s’

Now subscription based. I'm disappointed that you now have to pay for a monthly subscription to use the app

My favorite app. The app that makes me happy. It’s a treasure. Well written, well researched, endless discoveries and delicious meals to share with your loved ones.

You must subscribe to use this app!. As title, without subscription you cannot use this app.

Gifting Recipes. I really love the app. I like that I have the option of “gifting” access to a recipe to someone as part of the subscription. I have only been able to do this using a browser, not the app. Would love to see that fixed so I can send cool recipes to people I think would like to cook them!

Real recipes by real people. I love the variety and I feel the reviews are fair. Not everything is 5 stars yet I feel empowered to change and explore to make it 5. I feel like I’m cooking with a collaborator and not a dictator

Go to app for cooking. A lot of thinking went into this. Delicious recipes, great writing. A few oddities with the organization of things but it’s still one of the best apps out there for cooks of all levels.

Now I have to pay 7.00 (US) a month for it??. Deleted. Boom gone.

Great recipes, mediocre functionality. Great recipes - love the curation and discovery. The app itself, however, could use more work to improve feature set and functionality. For example: 1. A recent update got rid of the ability for users to view their list of “Cooked” recipes. 2. The comments functionality doesn’t allow for direct replies to other comments, so there are a bunch of comments floating around without context, responding to older comments by other users. It makes the comments section messy and not useful.

NY Times Cooking app. Awesome, and absolutely delicious recipes available to you online! What an incredible experience, chef style innovation, simplicity, fresh ingredients and a large selection to choose from! Thank you, Natasha Radenovic 😆!

Buggy. I can’t save any recipes. I like the app but I’m not gonna keep it if I can’t save any recipes.

More Amazing Recipes…. … than my wife knows what to do with.

The Lonely Table Companion. Approachable recipes for the enthusiastic but not necessarily dedicated home cook, with great variety, and thoughtful reflections, not to mention the terrific convenience of that shopping list feature. As an older, single person living alone, cooking is companionate. Just reading the daily recipes brightens my day with a necessary sense of possibility.

Sam Sifton’s food column is Fantastic!!. I always start with Sam’s food column.... very well done .... excellent recipe source and inspiration.... world views ... seasonal focuses inclusive of all cultures.... interesting bits on books people ideas ... just an informative, fun and inspirational read!! Amidst COVID this saved me many times giving me good reading and do-able ideas to perk life up! So many amazing folks contribute and such a huge resource at my finger tips! Love the Mediterranean Diet starting for 2024, Thanks! Excellent Recipes and great Support if you have questions! Lucy on Vancouver Island, Canada

Awesome But Esoteric. The recipes are fantastic and easy to follow but — in some cases — tend to be flourishes on the basics that, while delicious add work and complexity. This is NOT The Joy Of Cooking. It’s more for the experienced amateur chef who want to take it up a notch.

Login constantly. Having to login over and over again is exceedingly irritating. It happens with “games” too. Please please please fix this.

Logging in Annoyance. I am paying for this app. Please let me log in in the old way.

Metric measurements would make it way easier. Would be way better with metric. Otherwise great

Great recipes, bad app. The recipes in here are top notch, but it’s impossible to use without running into bugs lately. You go to a recipe, it shows as blank, then app freezes.

The best. I love this site and use it every day either for inspiration or for a recipe. Wonderful ingredients and mostly available generally even on VAncouver Island in a pandemic. Please lessen the over reliance on chick peas, they are boring and nasty. I could not manage without you all. Marnie McNeill

App is good, some tweaks could help. The app is good, the recipes work well and are always updating to add new ideas. Searching can be a little clumsy. It would be helpful if recipes were marked with various dietary tags like vegetarian, gluten-free, etc so that when browsing through new things, the ones that may apply to our choices were more obvious.

I love great recipes. I’m a person of a certain age. I love having the great good fortune of having a big family. Kids and grand kids. With the place and the great food offerings I’ve learned. If I build it they will come. Thank you New York Times recipes. You add to my collection of yummy!

So many good recipes, but expensive.. Just about everything tastes amazing. Great app. Just a bit steep for the price. If you can afford this app, it is great. The cost is two nice cookbooks per year.

Best of the best. I swear by the NYT recipes and “tours de main”. Interesting articles, well-researched, and fantastic dishes. One can never go wrong when choosing 5 star-rated dishes. Thank you! Long live the NYT Cooking app.!

Great way to find reliable, but not boring recipes. I have a large cookbook collection, including two older volumes of NYT cookbooks. But this is now my “go to” source of everyday recipes. I particularly like the reader (read “cook”) notes, giving some useful comments.

NYT Recipes. The NYT recipes that I have tried are great. The only problem I have with the selection is that so many of them use non-pantry items, at least non-my-pantry items.

Fabulous Website. My “go to” site! Love Melissa Clark’s spin on some basic recipes. Went back to my youth and made Pierre Franey’s Shrimp Jambalaya…it was amazing and a perfect dish for my son’s wedding! Thanks NYT.

Love it. Love NYT cooking. Such a wide variety. It is wonderful.

Reliable. Recipes from all the best cooks in one place. The first place I go now for inspiration and guidance. Easy save feature. Great newsletters too.

Great app, new icon is very bad. Love the times, but geez, new icon is bad. Please consider providing some options as preferences, or better yet just establish something more befitting of the NYT design language.

Not saving my recipes!. It won’t allow me to save any recipes. Yes very buggy.

Great!. Wonderful app! Very varied recipes. You can usually find what you’re looking for or get inspired without having to look through a million recipes on line. Excellent organization by categories as well. My one issue is that when my subscription ran out and I renewed I couldn’t retrieve my saved recipes! Sad!! I loved some of them! Maybe the Times can advise on this. Maybe I’ll print them out. Won’t stop me from renewing again, however!

Not so user friendly. The recipes are mostly yummy but, I like to plan my meals for the week. This app does not categorize items and lump together what you’ll need for a the whole week of recipes. The ingredients are in a list for each recipe so one is bouncing around the store to get each item in each recipe. It’s time consuming and kind of defeats the purpose of an app.

Deleted. Enjoyed the app while it was free but definitely not worth the $7.00 month. Unsubscribed to their email as well - what's the point when I can't access their recipes without a subscription. So many free recipes out there.

Fun and inspiring!. I’m not a fancy cook but you make me feel like I could be! Your recipes and the stories that precede them set up a fun vibe that inspires me to try new things…..my husband wants to know where his kitchen wife went….sorta!

Helps decide. Very helpful. Very easy. Cuts down the anxiety of daily dinner decision making.

Personal chef in my pocket. 🧑‍🍳This little app is more handy than having an in house chef … for our family anyway! 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 • Simple interface • Community comments • Beautiful pictures and videos ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I used to watch YouTube to help plan dinners but I HATE the ads. I have to watch 45 second ads to get 30 seconds of content. This is 💯better

Buggy. The app continually asks me to login. Just now I saved a recipe, great. Then I searched for another recipe and tried to save it - nope. Must login. And re-type all information; nothing is saved from prior logins. (NYTimes Crossword has the same bug, although it requires random logins far less often than this Cooking app.)

100% Winning Recipes. I slowly eased into using NYT Cooking recipes exclusively because I have had 100% excellent success rate with the recipes I have prepared. With time at a premium, making a flop or mediocre meal is such a disappointment and frustration not to say the financial loss. This is my stellar go-to!

Measurements. You should add a feature that can adjust amounts. Half, double, etc

Great site for recipes, hints and how tos for all things cooking. A very worthily site. Always a go to to discover and plan.

Excellent videos for instruction. Melissa Clark is great. Fun and inspiring with fav recipes Miss Sam Sifton’s old columns/pieces Like Ali Slagle’s approach with thoughtful limited ingredients

Wonderful. I use these recipes all the time.

So good!. Makes cooking an adventure.

I pay for this app, still they have ads.. Why am I paying $25 annually, and you still post advertisement in the goddamn app

Mes classiques. I love Cooking I always find good ideas and receipes for every day or specials occasions

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Grocery list needs serious work. This app has been out for some time now and with a subscription mode there’s zero excuse for app updates to be so stagnant. Whenever you add ingredients to your grocery list, it’s sorted by recipe. Additionally, there’s no way to mark it as completed or in your cart aside from deleting it from the list. It’s unintuitive and reeks of lazy coding especially since the app has not changed much at all since I’ve been a subscriber (roughly 2-3 years now). I’m hoping developers (or someone important enough) sees this as the recipes are great but the in-app experience needs serious work. If you’re going to ask for subscription money, at least have the decency to use that money to update your app.

Excellent content, but needs more filtering options.. I Iove the paid app because I find ad-driven recipe blogs unreliable and a chore to scroll. NYT has excellent recipes and a robust comments section that can help any home cook tweak and improve. My only issue is that the filters are quite limited—the filter for “gluten-free”, for exa will only yield recipes that mention being gluten free, which are mostly substitutes for traditional wheat-based dishes. It will overlook the countless recipes that, by nature, just don’t involve wheat and never would involve wheat (eg savory oatmeal or arepas). Perhaps in a future update there will be a way for community members to assist in tagging recipes for dietary specifics, or even better, a “filter out” option could be included for those who must avoid specific ingredients. 'Til then, three stars for what would otherwise be five star content.

Feedback on app. I enjoy that you have listed “trending”. And you now have ratings on the multi icon screen and no longer do I have to click on each recipe first to see it. Please have better filters: Based on chefs Complexity Time to make recipe Ratings (or at least be able to sort highest to lowest) in the search option. Also for personal notes; please have the option of edits to my original note instead of having to generate a different note each time I go back in and add a thought for myself. Allow automatic prompt to save recipes when clicking “cooked” icon into a folder. The saving process is not efficient and easy. I would be nice if there was an automatic save default folder of all recipes noted to be “cooked” and rated highly by the person. So for example when I cook a dish I click on the icon cooked and rate with possibly adding notes. I cook daily from NYTimes and sometimes (with a busy life and often quick rapid week day cooking) I forget to save to a folder. Now that wonderful recipe is lost unless I remember what it was for me to look up. I rather have the option of perusing through a folder that contains all of my cooked dishes that I have rated for and five stars next time I need inspiration for what to cook. Thanks!

Wonderful and talented helper in the kitchen. I love this app. I just set the iPad up on the kitchen counter and start cooking. It is very easy to navigate, and to make new collections according to meal types, food types, ingredients etc. The ability to add recipes from sources other than the NYT is a fantastic addition. Update from July 2017: as an NYT subscriber I do not have to pay the $5 monthly charge for the app. However, if I did not gave a subscription I would gladly pay the small fee. Using the app really streamlines my cooking and shopping efforts. I know that whenever I am in the market I can access a recipe from my phone in order to check what ingredients I need. And in the kitchen all I need is the phone or iPad rather than a pile of cookbooks. In short: love the app!!

Great recipes - Bad UI. I use this app often for finding recipes but am perpetually frustrated by a few features. 1)The lack of filters and/or sort by. For an app that I pay for, I would expect to at least be able to sort by number of stars in the reviews, author, etc. I also would expect to be able to filter by said fields and also - COOK TIME. If I am trying to find a recipe that takes less than hour I should be able to filter by that. It is frankly embarrassing. 2) I also have the impression that it reverts back to the home screen when I swap between apps which is frustrating if I haven't already saved the recipe that I was looking at. 3) The "start cooking" button looks like it should show you the rest of the recipe text but it only gets rid of the text and separates the ingredients and preparation into two different tabs.

It only gets better…. Back when it was Craig Clayborn and The NY Times cookbook, I always knew where to get a good recipe for almost anything. Now the Times’ cooking app is the best place to find several recipes to cook almost anything. The recipes are explained and commented, tested and reviewed, while the format is consistent. All of these together give you a good chance to make a tasty, beautiful and memorable dish that you can enjoy with your family, or treat your friends and guests to a dinner (lunch, snack or breakfast,too) they’ll remember. Notable contributions come from some of the world’s top chefs, in addition to the Times’ staff. The temptation begins with lovely photos of the end result on most entries. What could be better than that?

Never lets me down!. As a cookbook collector for over 50 years, I was amazed when I realized that I have never been disappointed with my choices, outcomes and the ideas which I gleaned from using the N.Y. Times Cooking app. It is always there when I need it, makes good reading, as well as it allows me to produce beautiful, healthy and delicious meals and desserts wherever I am and whatever the season. It also is a great educational tool which is right there when you need it; no more excuses not to make an intriguing recipe because it calls for a technique or an ingredient which you hadn’t attempted or used before. It describes it as well as explains it and even shows you step by step how to use it or learn to do it! I ♥️ NY (Times Cooking APP of course!!!).

Solid app. Overall, this is a solid app. There’s an expansive available recipes for all skill levels. You can browse by meal item (e.g.: appetizer, dessert) or through a specific search by keyword. I love that you also have the ability to flag a recipe so that you can create your own recipe box. The only reason for the 4-star rating is the lack of filtering. When you search for an item it will throw a big list and it always seems like they’re sorted by sponsored items. It’s not tagged that way specifically, but it’s not normally the top rated recipes. When you filter you can do so by item type or things like vegetarian, and that’s about it. Then you have to sort by rating level. It’s cumbersome because of the amount of recipes.

Amazing recipes...but..... I pay a lot for access to this site. (More than $40!) It used to be included in my online NYT subscription. So already I feel a little irritated by the additional expense which arbitrarily began over a year ago. I am also paying for a subscription to a service where I am unable to share any recipe ideas with friends or family UNLESS THEY TOO pay yearly! Seems pretty miserly and short-sighted. In reality it serves only to peak my interest in the POSSIBILITIES of what I MIGHT make when I have more time to cook... so I am fruitlessly creating an online “cookbook” with their “save recipes” feature which I will only retain by paying the yearly fee. Not a great deal in retrospect.

Love most recipes but needs nutritional information. I really love most of the recipes. This app is convenient for searching by ingredient as well as suggesting new ideas I might not have searched for. The user reviews are sometimes helpful but also often funny as people basically offer suggestions to modify the recipe so much it becomes a different recipe altogether. My one but huge complaint is the lack of nutritional information for most recipes. There are many reasons people want and need the nutritional information. And yes, it’s possible to figure it out oneself. But given it’s an app I pay to subscribe to, and the NYT frequent articles about health, it’s disappointing they don’t offer the basic nutritional information for all of their published recipes.

Changed my life. I am a good cook with a recipe. I am not particularly creative with food though. This app and the newsletters have changed everything about what and how I cook. The “how-to” videos are terrific for learning basic skills, and the newsletters provide the right amount of variety. Every Sunday I plan my weekly menu using this app, do all the shopping, then for the work week I am on automatic pilot, pleasing my family with a variety of delicious meals. I save soooo much time this way, both physically and mentally, and can spend that saved time away from the kitchen. Also, Sunday is experiment day, and this app makes it fun to explore and to discover both wins and flops. The notes are key to learning about substitutions so I never run to the store last minute.

Recipes great but app needs work. I’ve been using this app for years and it continues to have some really basic problems. 1. Trying to open a recipe off a search engine doesn’t work. It leads first to a useless page that says it will redirect us to the app, but the page actually points us to the App Store (even though the app is already installed), and when the app finally opens it has not in fact saved which recipe you’re looking at and takes you to the home page. It’s faster to manually go to the app and search for the recipe you spotted on Google. Ridiculous. 2. When using the app and you’re on a recipe, it frequently refreshes itself so you get kicked out of the recipe and need to go back to open it up. I don’t see the point of this especially since they’re not trying to get incremental ad revenue. Hence, basic problem that should be addressed.

Great Recipes. That’s the point of a cooking app right? As many will tell you, reading the comments is a great part of this app; they can helpful, fun and eye-rolling. My all-time favorite: ‘I hate this recipe, my boyfriend said it was too salty and he left me’. I would like to be able to assign and sort recipes to categories more easily. For example desserts are assigned not only to the ‘Dessert’ category, but also the ‘Vegetarian’ category. True, I might eat Blueberry Cornmeal Shortbread Tart (one commenter said they call it the crack tart) for dinner, but I should aim to consider it as dessert. Also being able to print selected comments would be a great feature. If you enjoy cooking you should enjoy the app.

My Mother’s Day gift to myself. I have so many new, favorite recipes to enjoy, incorporated now in my weekly meal planning. I love that some are so simple and quick and others are worth more time and effort. This past Christmas I made cookie boxes for gifts inspired by Melissa Clark. We have a huge garden every year (in the mid-west) and I can always find new things to cook with our wonderful, organic vegetables. Several years ago I made this NYT cooking app a Mother’s Day gift to myself; it’s perfect. I go through all your emails with recipe suggestions and save new ones often. I believe you have made me a better cook, not just by following recipes, but creating more delicious ones on my own, too. Thank you!

Teaches you top chef ideas that are quick and easy and take your food to the next level. My husband and I have been focusing on eating healthy for a couple years. Not all the recipes are necessarily healthy, but once you learn little things to adapt recipes to make them healthy, it is easy. There are healthy recipes in the app too. The thing I love the most is how these are actual chefs who know amazing, quick, easy things to do to set your food apart and make it special. In an attempt to use up the zucchini from our garden, 2 of my recent dishes from the app are zucchini bread and zucchini basil pasta. I used chick pea pasta instead of regular pasta. It was amazing! Thank you for a great app.

Brave New Idea. We are about to open a restaurant with a different take on “tasting menu”. Our plan is to change the menu bi-weekly. Actually, it is a “family style” approach but “tasting menu” sounds more upscale. For a fixed price diners will have a choice of a soup or salad. Then we will serve 3 protein platters with 4oz portions of fish, chicken and beef, lamb or pork along with three vegetable choices, 2 of which are vegan. If our customers devour all of a protein portion we will provide more. And, if food remains, take-out containers will be provided. Portions of 3 different desserts will be offered also. Can you imagine how much NYT recipes help!! For the kitchen staff it will be the equivalent of restaurant school. We have survived the virus by changing our ghost kitchen curbside pickup menu weekly. Again, we use NYT!

Unexpected Fun. I enjoy this app more than I thought I would. I would describe myself as an “occasional” try a new recipe for the family cook. I rarely cook for company, but appreciate a good meal. I was really doubtful I’d continue past the free trial - but the app is well built and the recipes are fantastic. I highly recommend the Dutch Baby pancake recipes, which have become a weekend breakfast staple. And the “helpful” comments are borderline addictive. They have become a part of reading the recipe for me. I like being able to “save” the recipes I like for easy reference - and appreciate the NYT recommendations in their newsletter. I enjoy it so much I have considered buying it as a gift for people I know enjoy cooking. Two thumbs up.

Would give 4.5 stars. I love this app! The quality of the recipes are fantastic and have provided me with so many wonderful breakfasts, dinners, and desserts! The step-by-step instructions are typically well thought out and recipes with associated videos are even better! My only reasons for taking off half of a star are these: 1. Once you rate a recipe, you can’t remove your rating. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve accidentally rated a recipe I’ve never made. 2. I wish there was a folder in the recipe box called “Cooked” that automatically compiled recipes that you had marked “Cooked”. This would be a great way to return to forgotten recipes that have been battle tested in one’s own kitchen. If these two items were fixed/added, this app would be 5 stars all day, every day!

Useful for larger families. I honestly only signed up for NYTimes cooking for the no-knead bread recipe, but I’ve made a few other recipes since. I really wish the app could have a built in calculator for reducing the number of servings. Many recipes online have that tool and it’s so useful for those of us with only 2 people at home. There are so many good recipes that serve 6-8 people and that’s just way too much for us! I’ve tried to cut recipes in half by doing my own math but usually fail to calculate one or two of the ingredients each time. Also, the grocery list seems to have changed with a recent update. I can’t remove items and now it’s tied to a specific recipe rather than just being a list. It was hard to use the last time I went grocery shopping. Just give us back the list.

Search function has changed for the worse. Prior to recent "improvements" one of the coolest things about this app, aside from the recipes themselves, was the capability to plug in multiple search criteria and come up with recipes incorporating those elements together. For example, if you entered chicken potatoes olives you'd wind up with, perhaps, 250 recipes for chicken with potatoes and olives. Now, unfortunately, that same search will net you, say, 3,000 recipes, some of which use chicken, some of which use potatoes, some of which use olives, and some of which use combinations of two or three of them. A ROYAL MESS, verging on useless. Inquiries to the folks curating the app have elicited only "sorry, no plans to address this problem" type responses. What a drag.

Great app and recipes. The NY Times has some really lovely recipes in this app. I enjoy the layout, the recipes, reader comments, as well as some other aspects of the app like the feature that keeps the screen from shutting off if not active. The reason I’m not awarding all stars is because I do not see a way to have notes attached to the recipes I save in my recipe box. We all like to make some adjustments like lowering the sugar amount or adding an extra ingredient. I would like to have a way to note those things and have that available the next time I make that same recipe. And to make this the ultimate app, there would be a way to save some recipes I really like but that are from other sources. Right now I have multiple places I need to reference for my favorite recipes.

Mayo Turkey. While hesitant about the mayo coating, dry salt brine and spatchcock of the turkey, this recipe was absolutely perfect. At Thanksgiving, I traditionally make two, 12-lb turkeys: one the day before (to make gravy in advance and have extra to send home with my adult children), and one on Thanksgiving Day to serve. Our turkeys were frozen. Once defrosted, I dry-brined 24 hours before with Kosher salt as directed and made double the mayonnaise coating. Using poultry shears, I spatchcocked the turkeys, coated with mayo, and roasted as directed. Each cooked in less than 2 hours. Left to rest and then served, they were perfectly cooked through, juicy and delicious. Everyone commented on how good the turkey was! (The accompanying gravy recipe was fabulous as well.) This is my permanent “go-to” Turkey recipe. Thank you!!

NYT Cooking Section is 4 Stars and App is NOT. I do not understand all the love for this app. It does nothing. NYT is a great section and well worth the extra $ but this app adds nothing to the experience. I give it 2 stars because it’s free. But the grocery list is senseless. It does not combine recipes. You need to open each recipe in the “list” and see how much of each item you need for each. For example, if each recipe requires a certain amount of garlic, you must do the math yourself after looking at each recipe. And I don’t know about you but although I love New York Times recipes that’s not the only things I’m buying when I go to the grocery store. I also have plenty of staples and ingredients from recipes not found at the New York Times. (Sorry for my traitorous habits in the kitchen NYT.) Anyway. If your looking for an app to search NYT cooling section this it. And it is only that. I prefer to do that using a web browser.

My Daily App. I use the NYT cooking app at least 5 times a week. I have wonderful cookbooks and many notebooks full of great collected recipes that I use as well. But… it’s just so easy to type in chicken thighs and all these wonderful and often easy recipes pop up. I am a baker as well and use many dessert recipes. I have been making the shrimp cherry tomatoes and fresh corn often. We love it! Last night we had the Portabello Parmesan in Sundays paper. I added penne to enjoy the juices and tomato sauce even more. My list is very long of the favorites we have from the app. I have been particularly enjoying sheet pan recipes. Easy and very good. We love the chicken thighs and baby bok Choy. Keep them coming, I cook a lot and absolutely love this app.

Good Recipes, good reviews, one strange flaw. It’s all good, except for the strange lack of an obvious way to read the full introductory text. Each recipe only shows the start of the article, and there is a large “start cooking “ button where you would expect to click to read more. So for the longest time I clicked on Start Cooking and was frustrated to see that it skipped the article entirely, and yet starting again simply got me back to a half-obscured article. I stumbled upon the correct method later, which is to click on the text to show more. Timeseans, please add a second button, entitled “read more” or just stop hiding the text that we want to read anyway (we know how to scroll), and then test on a number of newbies to see if they were not frustrated. Thanks for listening.

Come for the acrostics; stay for the recipes!. I love this app. Love the chefs, the recipes and the NOTES. These are grouped by food, by ease of prep, by meal-but not by rating. The recipes are pretty straightforward and easy to follow (and if not, someone in the notes has figured it out- either that or an entirely different recipe with a “few” substitutions). There’s something to make even if you've got almost nothing in the pantry and ten minutes to dinner time. It would get one more star if a search by star/rating were an option. The developer (NYT) has responded that it is possible, but has left no instructions on how to do it. No option for this search shows up in any of the filters on the app. Please let us know how it is done NYT! We love you!

Everything in One Place. I found myself searching the web for recipes over and over, and noticing that the recipe websites were difficult to navigate, and focused on ads and keeping me on the page for as much time as possible. Then I realized that lots of the recipes were from The NY Times, and that the rest of internet was profiting off of one source without paying for it. The natural conclusion was that I didn’t want to be the product and the source of revenue for random web sites, and downloaded and subscribed to NY Times cooking, and now it’s my go-to for pretty much anything I want to make. Search is great, everything is clear, and the recipes are excellent. The comments are really helpful too.

Love Hate. I am a professional chef and I constantly mine the NYT food section for ideas. I save recipes like crazy in the cooking app and have prepared many at home (usually first) and in the restaurant kitchen as well. As a professional for almost 50 years I can follow a recipe and know the methods for cooking a successful dish (ie saute, roast, bake etc.) I think many recipes are not edited/ tested very well. A good example is Sam Siftons codfish cakes. Basically an excellent recipe however in addition to a hefty amount of Old Bay there is a teaspoon and half of added salt, that is a ridiculous amount of salt even alone, Old Bay is already heavy on the salt. I love all the writers, I just wish somebody would watch their backs a little better. Thank you for this treasure. Jack Pickett

Great recipes, lousy app. It is a recipe box. It does have decent search functionality but doesn’t take advantage of being an app. You are able to mark “I’ve made this”, but not able to clearly see this amongst all recipes or filter on this field, give it your own ratings or write your own cooking notes — so less than you can do with a physical recipe box. The two tab structure of ingredients — shopping list — and cooking instructions is also problematic because ingredient prep instructions are frequently included on the ingredient tab instead of within the recipe instructions. You are also not able to use for weekly meal planning and calories/nutritional info not provided. You are not able to search of multiple ingredients you have in your pantry to find a recipe for what you have available. This app could be so much more. I had hoped I’d get more functionality for the subscription fee.

Broken App. This app has wonderful recipes. Until a few months ago, it was easy to search and to create your own folders in which to save your recipes. The most recent updates have disabled these features. It is no longer possible to save recipes to folders, to create or access your folders or to search and retrieve recipes. The search function retrieves random recipes that are often irrelevant to the search terms, which often makes it useless. It is a shame such a terrific app has become so dysfunctional. I hope they restore it to operate as it did before the changes that have been made over the last few months.

Great content but not so great UI. Content wise, this app is the best. Great recipes from noteworthy chefs and very authentic I’ve enjoyed every dish I’ve made. The only reason this doesn’t get five stars is because of the user interface. It’s very difficult to save and organize recipes. Recipes are first organized based on tags that the recipes have been initially given. It is possible to create your own categories but recipes do not move from the original tagged list into your chosen categories, but is instead duplicated. The same recipes will show up under every tag AND within created categories/lists... organization is a bit chaotic. I would suggest developers check out how Pinterest allows organization within each board... I’m sure they have but could be a nice app update in the future.

The flaws are in the recipes, not the app.. I love this app. It’s definitely my favorite and most used app on my phone. It’s easy to navigate and the notes section provides an invaluable source for ideas to tweak recipes or change them completely. I don’t really have a complaint about the app. Some of the recipes call themselves authentic but use ingredients that are anything but. That doesn’t mean they’re not delicious, just misrepresenting and that’s not a flaw in the app. Marcella Hassan’s bolognese sauce is straight up food porn. I made it for my stepdad over Christmas, my 10th or so time making it. He’s Sicilian and said it’s the best he’s ever had. My parent’s power went out and the frozen bags of sauce spoiled. He might still not be over the loss, but there’s always next Christmas.

Search function is broken. You can only search once, it removes the bar, and the only way to search again is to close the app entirely and start again. Even to get there, it takes 3 clicks to search. There should be a search bar, you click it, and it creates the cursor to begin typing. There shouldn't be a separate tab, the existing tab can just appear below the search bar after it is selected. There is enough negative space in the default Browse screen to put a search bar. Wild. It's also too easy to go into and out of recipe following mode. swiping back and forth is fine but let it be a two finger swipe or something to get out of it, since you are going to use hands that are covered in dough or whatever. Put the ingredients and directions on one screen! The iPad is big enough that I promise you can have a list on one side with checkboxes and directions on the other.

Fun, creative inspirations for the home cooks. Although I am obsessed with cook books and own too many, I find myself using The NY Times app very often to cook for my family. My cook books are suffering from neglect and they resent The NY Times app. The recipes are really fun, and very practical for the home cooks. Many of the recipes are quite healthy, since I need to watch my weight more now with the COVID weight gain. I found a cherry clafoutis recipe last week, that uses yogurt instead of cream. It was so delicious and I did not feel guilty eating it. I am a big fan of Melissa Clark, and this app brought her to my kitchen. I will keep this app the way a dog keeps its bone, and I am prepared to bite any hands to keep it.

LOVE.. but please improve search. I love the NYT food app and recommend it to everyone. The recipes are mostly excellent and when you use it for a while, you get to know which recipe writers are most reliable or most aligned with the flavors that interest you. What really sets this app apart from other recipe apps, though, is the comments function. It’s SO helpful to read other cooks’ comments and then make private notes within the recipe itself to my future self about various adjustments or recommendations. My only recommendation to the developers of this app is to please improve the search function. It is so bad that I often end up doing a Google search for the ingredients or specific recipe I’m looking for and adding “+New York Times.” It feels like I shouldn’t have to do that.

More often than not, you are trying to be unique. Sometimes, it’s nice to find a recipe with ingredients that make sense and aren’t trying too hard to be different and difficult, only for the sake of impressing readers with a false front of worldly expression and experience. Most recipes from this section are over the top. At the end of the day, few people have the will or energy to be uber creative and spend an hour or two in prep and creation. Why can’t you simplify, shorten, and use a regular pantry and refrigerator as your platform? Cacio e Pepe, for example, is amazing, simple, and requires ingredients that most people have at home. How about giving your readers more of that?

Data privacy disappointment. The fact that NYT collects and transmits so much of our personal data is incredibly disappointing. This is evident not only in Apple’s “privacy label” (which I love) but when using The Markup’s Blacklight, which reveals that NYT uses upwards of 17 cookies and 14 ad trackers, in addition to letting Google analytics follow us across the web. I know times are hard for journalists, but we do pay a subscription for this app! Otherwise, the app is fine. I’d like the ability to browse all of their recipes, perhaps shuffled or in alphabetical order. Currently, you have to look at the collections they are featuring or search for a specific recipe. I still like those features, but I want access to the vault!

My #1 go-to recipe source. I love this app for its being a portable medium for my favorite (and most reliable) recipes. The comments from others who’ve tried the recipes offer excellent feedback and suggestions. Without having to buy multiple cookbooks, I have the best recipes from my favorite chefs. And the bookmarks don’t fall out of place. The app itself is easy to use. It’s search is wonky like the rest of the NYT. When I return to my saved recipes after viewing one, the location is reset to the top of the saved recipes file and I scroll scroll scroll again. And if only it could find my search when I’ve misspelled a word or don’t have the exact name of a recipe, it would be perfect. I deal with that by saving any recipe I think I’ll want to cook someday.

This is my sole recipe source. This application and the recipes are fantastic. I have found so many favorites here. This app is easy to use. You can save recipes and learn how to cook. I'm just discovering the Editor's Collection and it looks promising! The watch app is nearly perfect. I was so excited when I realized it had a grocery list that you can check off items. What would be really fun is if 2 people could view a list on their watches that stays synced so they can split up the shopping effort! Or does that already exist? I also have a bit of trouble with the watch orientation. For some reason it always rotates the screen when I put my arm down. Also, the "Rate on the App Store" doesn't work for me because I think Apple limits the number of times apps can prompt it.

My favorite app. Since subscribing to NYT at the beginning of the year, I have perused this app almost every day and cooked/baked from it at least once a week. The functionality of saving recipes is great and there’s a nice variety of chefs/food writers (e.g. someone specializing in healthy food, a Middle Eastern specialist, etc.). The amount of food and baking blogs out there is overwhelming so I really appreciate using this as a trusted go-to source. Further, unlike your run of the mill food blog, where few comments are from users who’ve actually made the food, the user notes and reviews on this app are from people who like to cook and they’re incredibly helpful! Do yourself, friends and family a favor and get this app! Improve your life—feed the soul!

Greatest cooking app. Love this app. I’ve been using it for 3 years now and I can say it makes meal prep for the week easy but also interesting. There are so many great recipes and you can search them for key ingredients, chefs, etc. I love the tips section and seeing how others have modified and what works. I also love the related recipes at the bottom. I have my iPad set up in the kitchen and just cook off of it. Saves me $ on cookbooks and magazine that I rarely use because this app is so convenient and right on my phone. Save on paper since I don’t have to print it everything out. I can also look up a recipe in the grocery store or farmer’s market it something looks good and I’m not sure what I want to make with it.

Few changes could make it better. I love The NY Times recipes and as a vegan there are tones for me to chose from, from amazing cooks like Martha Shulman, Melissa Clark and Mark Bittman. The format of the app makes it really easy to use my iPad while i am cooking. These recipes rarely fail. As a vegan sometimes I use other more specialist websites for recipes not available from The NY Times. I love that I can save these in the app so literally everything is in one place. HOWEVER The NY Times whether intentionally or not makes it really difficult to find those recipes. There is no search function for your own recipe box and there is no way to categorize the non-NY Times recipes, therefore if you are looking for one you have to scroll, sometimes through 200 other recipes for you find it. This is insanely infuriating and might just be the reason to cancel my membership unless this function gets updated.

Great For Meal Planning. As someone who is trying to learn how to cook, this app is great. I can easily find recipes that are at my skill level and read comments to help make adjustments that I couldn’t have anticipated myself. Each week I make a folder “Week of x” and put the recipes I want to make in there, then add to grocery list once I’m happy with my selections. My one complaint is the functionality of the shopping list is extremely limited. You can only get it broken down by recipe. So as someone who prefers to grocery shop only once a week, it’s not useful in the grocery store. I’ve attempted to export the list into a few different apps with no success. I’m just not sure why the New York Times isn’t able to implement a more functional shopping list.

Please make this even better. Great app with many wonderful recipes but you must improve your NYT Cooking search game: 1. Please show me the recipe for Moroccan Chicken with Preserved Lemon and Olives FIRST when I specifically ask for it, not just 8,000 recipes containing Moroccan, chicken, lemon, and olives in the title. No one has time to sort through that kind of mess. If I am looking for ANY recipe with those ingredients, I should be able to either type them with commas, ampersands, spaces, or plus signs. But when I ask for one thing, at the very least put it at the top of the search. (I imported a great veg recipe from elsewhere and I can’t find it because you are showing me EVERY recipe in the world that has green beans!) 2. For Pete’s sake, let me edit my own private Notes. Not that hard.

Best recipe collection I’ve found. I recommend this app without reservation to anyone looking for really great recipes. I resent that I have to pay a sub on top of a regular NYT subscription, but the recipes are almost all winners, and new recipes are constantly added, and it’s ultimately been totally worth it. Vitally, the app is set to keep your phone from sleeping when open, which has been the biggest issue for me when trying to work from recipes on websites. It’s also very easy to print them out though, and they’re well organized. My one quibble is that the list of recommended recipes will change if you click on one and then click back. Not a big deal though.

Smart cooking. This app provides easy access to years of great NYT food writers and recipes. Ease of use is a plus - particularly the save option. Comments from readers are a great feature - often sharing tips and suggestions that improve results. Some ideas for improvements - more Boolean-like searching options like excluding eggs or combining terms. Also, how about finding photos for the older recipes instead of the nothing placeholders? Options for sorting saved results would be helpful, too. For those of us who don’t like video, screen grabs of key steps would be a nice option. That said, it’s great that older recipes are included - the hard-bound cookbook collections were the precursor and many of those recipes are still useful.

Terrific source of recipes. There’s always some new recipe to try in this collection. You can rate whatever you make, save it in your own recipe box, write comments and read other cooks’ comments. The recipes tend to be based on ingredients found on the East Coast or in gourmet shops, but no one says you can’t make your own version with stuff you have on hand. I’ve learned a lot of new combinations and methods to prepare food we get from our CSA, too. The one complaint I have is inconsistent ingredient measurements. In some recipes, flour is weighed in grams, in others, measured in cups. Sometimes a recipe might call for 4 zucchini when it would be clearer to measure in pounds. The recipe search engine could be improved to allow searches by more than one word. If I want a recipe that uses green beans, I have to search through all the bean recipes.

Such a great collection. The NYT cooking app is my go to cookbook for every occasion. That’s why, with all it’s greatness for content, the frustrating, archaic search and sort functions are a remarkable disappointment. This is a subscription service, and the Times is really negligent for not updating it. Since many of us don’t keep computers in our kitchens, mobile access becomes very important, yet on ios, you can’t even search two variables at once. For example, if you want to search mango pie, every recipe for mango, and every mention of pie will all appear. Also, you can search the exact name of a recipe, and it might not appear in your search at all. NYT really needs to create a platform more worthy of such extraordinary content. It’s long overdue.

Suggestions for even better app. I love NYT's recipes, but because the newest NYT app is so bad (it won't even work on my 2012 iPad mini) I am considering cancelling my subscription. The NYT cooking app is all that is keeping me subscribed as a paying customer. However, if I am going to pay for this, here are two things that you should do to make the app better: 1) let me choose multiple categories when I am filing a recipe. Right now, I have to click on organize recipes once for every category that I file some thing on. This is a waste of my time. 2) let me search by multiple ingredients at once to find recipes that call for thing s I have "on hand". I can approximate this type of search with the regular search function, but it would be nice to have a designated "search for items on-hand" so that when I search for zucchini I also get summer squash results.

Love the app overall but it has some flaws. Overall, I love The NY Times Cooking app. I use it weekly, sometimes daily and have hundreds of recipes saved. If you want an great way to save, filter and tag recipes, the app works great and is a treasure trove constantly being enriched by chefs whom I admire and follow. My only issue with the app is that it falls short of its promise to integrate with other apps: notably, Evernote (another app that I love for keeping notes) and, ironically, with the New York Times app itself. With Evernote, the synchronization feature does not work consistently. I have tried a number of times to get it to work, filled out forms to send to tech support and never resolved it. I finally gave up trying. With the New York Times app, using the Save feature (which should save the recipe to the New York Times Cooking app) doesn’t work for me (I am using an iPhone 6 with the latest version of iOS). After reading the recipe in The NY Times I have to exit out, go into The NY Times Cooking app separately and search for the recipe by title there. Despite these annoying limitations I will continue to use the Cooking app and thank the chefs for their contributions.