Home Baking

Home Baking: Appetizing Apps

Big Oven

A great app for storing your own recipes or finding something to cook based on ingredients you have on hand. Even take a photo of your handwritten recipe and Big Oven will store it for you. Contains over 170,000 recipes. iPhone, Adroid

Hello Vino-Wine Recommendations

Have a great meal prepared but not sure what type of wine will best bring out the flavor? This app will give recommendations based on meals, holidays, special occasions, or give suggestions based on your favorite type of wine. iPhone, Android

Serving Sizer Pro

Input any recipe and this app will scale it to serve any number of guests. Serving Sizer Pro helps you easily double, triple, or half any recipe and even converts between U.S. and Metric units. iPhone

Smart Chef Substitutions

A handy app that provides hundreds of ingredient substitutions for when you just don’t have time to make another trip to the grocery store. Cooking for someone with an allergy? No problem! This app will find an appropriate substitution for almost any ingredient. iPhone

Food Network In the Kitchen

Gain access to recipes from your favorite food network chefs and cooks! This app provides recipes, shopping lists, cooking tools, and more. iPhone, Android

Chef’s Timer Pro

A great kitchen timer for anyone cooking at home or in a restaurant setting. Allows you to set the timer from 1 minute to 24 hours to help keep precise track of cooking time. iPhone

Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List

Browse over 30,000 recipes from the award-winning Epicurious.com. Save, share, shop, cook, search, and sync your recipe box with this award-winning app. iPhone, Android, Windows phones

How to Cook Everything

Based on the cookbooks by New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, this app gives you access to 2,000 recipes and 400 how-to illustrations. How to Cook Everything makes cooking anything a breeze. iPhone

Ratio

Based on the cookbook by Michael Ruhlman, this app allows you to gain instant access to the ratios used to make bread, batters, custard, sauces, stocks, desserts, and more. It allows you to scale ingredients based on what you have as well as providing basic instruction on how to make the desired food item, freeing you from recipes once and for all. iPhone, Android

Gourmet Live

Updated every Wednesday, this app shares recipes, stories, interviews, and much more with those who enjoy intermediate level cooking. Keep up-to-date with this content-packed app. iPhone