Relish Austin

By Aaron

January 11, 2010 4:29 PM | Link to this

Ratio by Michael Ruhlman is very good! http://gizmodo.com/5421027/michael-ruhlmans-ratio-iphone-app-may-actually-get-you-into-the-kitchen

By Jose Ralat Maldonado

January 11, 2010 4:37 PM | Link to this

I’m a huge fan of Epicurious. The tortilla espa�ola recipe is wonderful. The mole recipes from Fonda San Miguel (yes, that Fonda San Miguel) and Zarela Martinez will be among those used to test out my mole skills next week. Being a taco fanatic, I recently downloaded Taco Loco and have had trouble getting the search function to work. (Good thing I had a free promo code.) Thanks for bringing iTacos to my attention. I’m psyched to try it out.

By Drew

January 11, 2010 5:19 PM | Link to this

LocalEats is a great app to use when visiting a new major city or just trying to find the best local restaurants in your hometown. They have features to search for restaurants close to you, in most major cities, and also gives you the ability to search by best in food category. This app has never pointed me in the wrong direction when trying to find a local non-chain place to eat when traveling. I highly suggest using this to ensure you never miss out on local eateries that you might have otherwise never known were around you.

By aneelee

January 11, 2010 7:32 PM | Link to this

i have a handful of apps that i use i keep on my phone for cooking and eating related stuff, but my heavy hitter is Evernote. I keep all things food in it - menu plans, shopping lists, recipes, emails, food related posts, recipe indexes for magazines and cookbooks at home. it has truly integrated all the types of media and information into one place and i can’t imagine life without it now.

other apps:

Epicurious gets used when i am trying to come up with a quick recipe for a leftover ingredient

SplashShopr is my grocery list manager. i’ve used it for years (since my handspring days) and have gotten it for the iPhone out of familiarity. i’d be interested to hear more about other shopping apps out there that are more feature rich.

Tweetie2 for twitter and quick photo posting

Flickr for posts to, well, Flickr

and a shortcut to Google Reader so that I can keep tabs on what everyone else in the cooking world is doing.

By marshall wright

January 11, 2010 9:22 PM | Link to this

I’m a big fan of the GroceryIQ app. Both my wife and I have it on our iPhones and we can synch our grocery list when each of us adds new things. Saves a written note misplaced on the counter and works great. Even has barcode scanning!

I like Ratio so far but haven’t used it enough to know if it’s indispensable.

Seafood Watch is fantastic for knowing what seafood served on local menus is sustainable.

I use Mac Gourmet Deluxe as my recipe software on my computer and they have a corresponding app that synchs with it.

By rae

January 11, 2010 10:22 PM | Link to this

Epicurious is very handy, as is Urbanspoon. I am trying Lose It! for calorie counting, and it’s OK. But with all these reports lately about calorie counts being so far off on labels and at restaurants, I have no idea if it’s accurate!

By Zarela Martinez

January 12, 2010 10:40 AM | Link to this

Thank you for choosing one of my mole recipes to test your skills in making this elaborate main dish sauce. While I like all my mole recipes, my favorite is mole de Xico from my Zarela’s Veracruz book. While working with all sorts of moles for my book The Food and Life of Oaxaca, I developed techniques that simply the process and appied to the mole de Xico recipe. Good luck!

Zarela

By Jaye @ Food Porn

January 12, 2010 11:41 AM | Link to this

I’m also a big fan of Grocery IQ. I can keep lists for multiple stores which is awesome. It’s got coupons now too, but I can’t figure out how to use them.

For dining out, Yelp and UrbanSpoon are great.

For cooking, I really like Kitchen Pro for doing measurement conversions and I’m debating Ratio. Epicurious is my standard for recipes though the Whole Foods app is kind of nice too.

By Lisa

January 13, 2010 8:21 AM | Link to this

Adding my praise for Grocery IQ. They have added a few upgrades lately that have made it even better. Most recently I noticed that added coupons. If I ad a name brand item to my cart it will show me if there is a coupon available. Scanning capabilities would make this app perfect.

By Darlene Fiske

January 13, 2010 9:57 AM | Link to this

I also love Grocery IQ - my husband can add things to the list before I head to the store and it syncs before I even walk through the door. Love it!
Also, the WholeFoods app has a fantastic recipe feature, where you can plug in ingredients you have in your pantry/refrigerator and it will pull up a recipe that incorporates what you have on hand. It’s very useful!

By Amy

January 13, 2010 10:11 AM | Link to this

Adding my praise for the FREE Seafood Watch (for buying sustainable seafood for our location) and MacGourmet ($4.99 app + $25 software), which holds my recipes and notes. For the locavore (i.e. eating seasonal vegetables/fruit), MacGourmet is handy for tagging your recipes by month or season.

I also like the FREE Dirty Produce, for the ranking of produce that carry the most or least pesticides.

But one of my favorites is the $2.99 Better World app that guides you toward the most socially/environmentally responsible brands of beer, chocolate, chips, butter… anything! It ranks brands beyond the grocery store, including airlines, appliances, banks… The makers of this app were in the business of publishing this info long before the iPhone. I like it better than the FREE Good Guide, because of it’s simplicity.

By Amy

January 13, 2010 10:39 AM | Link to this

Seafood Watch FREE Dirty Produce FREE MacGourmet (not free) but I tag recipes by season, so I can always pull up a seasonal recipe for meal planning Better World ($2.99) similar to, but much better than Good Guide — these guys were in the business of ranking socially/environmentally responsible brands long before the app came out.