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How to Cook Everything
 This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
  • Price
    $9.99
  • CategoryFood & Drink
  • Versions2 archived
  • Installable1 of 2
  • AvailabilityRemoved from the App Store
  • SellerCulinate, Inc.

RequirementsCompatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.

Customer Ratings

As of October 17, 2019
     
7,543 Ratings

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This first-of-its-kind app of the bestselling cookbook—How to Cook Everything® from New York Times columnist Mark Bittman—has 2,000 recipes, 400 how-to illustrations, and a host of features that appeal to cooks on the go.

This app is optimized uniquely for both the iPad and the iPhone, making the most of the size, shape, and capabilities of each. (Some features are specific to the iPad only.)

In the app you’ll find:

• The full content of the multiple-award-winning How to Cook Everything®: all 2,000 recipes and variations.

• Bittman’s no-nonsense cooking guidance: how-to illustrations; equipment, technique, and ingredient information; and meal-planning ideas.

• Easy-to-use and flexible search capabilities, including enhanced filters and the ability to browse recipes and reference information.

• Dedicated layouts for portrait and horizontal views, so the information and recipes are easy to follow—from any angle.

• Inspiring photos of weekly featured recipes (iPad only).

• Well-organized and email-friendly shopping lists that make it easy to buy ingredients—and whatever other groceries you need at home.

• The ability to bookmark particular recipe steps and jump with ease among recipes (iPad only).

• The ability to convert temperatures and quantities to metric.

• Handy built-in timers, placed throughout the recipe steps.

• A How-To section that provides convenient access to hundreds of illustrated tutorials on a broad range of topics (iPad only).

• A notes tab on each recipe that makes it easy to add your own recipe notes (iPad only).

• Select quotes from the book with voice-overs by Mark Bittman (iPad only).

• A constant-on button to prevent the screen from dimming while you cook (iPad only).

• The ability to print recipes and shopping lists and to add recipes to calendars.

• The ability to email up to 10 recipes a month to yourself or to friends.

• Cooking inspiration: Bittman’s Picks, Featured Recipes, Menues, and Favorites, which provide quick access to selected recipes.

• Feed your friends: Integration with Facebook and Twitter allows you to share what you’re cooking with your social network!

• Owners of the new iPad: this one's for you. We've updated the app to include a full set of retina display graphics and images to take full advantage of your high-resolution screen.

All recipe and reference content is embedded in this app, which means that you can use it even if you don’t have a network connection. The How to Cook Everything app is the perfect complement to the book, an invaluable resource and guide.

• • •

"The bells-and-whistles of this app are what make it a must-buy, from grocery lists you can email to how-to illustrations. Bittman also makes it nearly impossible to mess up a dish—each recipe step has a built in timer so there’s less chance you’ll forget how long your osso bucco has been cooking."

— Bon Appetit

• • •

Love this app? Check out its companion apps: How to Cook Everything Vegetarian and Cooking Basics.

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1.9.8 (430)
Requires iOS 5.0+
July 15, 2013
46.5 MB Install Download 2 more copies ›
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1.9.12 (443)
Requires iOS 6.1+
56.0 MB Encrypted Install Download

Chart History

Top Paid · iPad View chart ›
Peaked at #27 (January 14, 2011) · 4 archived captures · Jan 2011

Ratings Over Time

sampled from 66 archived captures
DateVersionRatingRatingsPrice
December 21, 2010 — — 10 $9.99
January 1, 2011 1.3.1 — 39 $9.99
January 3, 2013 — — 2,085 $9.99
November 27, 2015 1.9.12 ★ 4.8 1,424 $9.99
November 30, 2015 1.9.12 ★ 4.8 1,428 $9.99
May 26, 2018 1.10.3 ★ 4.5 7,162 $9.99
November 9, 2018 1.10.3 ★ 4.5 7,221 $9.99
December 19, 2018 1.10.3 ★ 4.5 7,265 $9.99
May 20, 2019 1.10.3 ★ 4.5 7,413 $9.99
August 15, 2019 1.10.3 ★ 4.5 7,490 $9.99
August 16, 2019 1.10.3 ★ 4.5 7,490 $9.99
September 7, 2019 1.10.3 ★ 4.5 7,509 $9.99
September 30, 2019 1.10.3 ★ 4.5 7,526 $9.99
October 2, 2019 1.10.3 ★ 4.5 7,529 $9.99
October 17, 2019 1.10.3 ★ 4.5 7,543 $9.99

From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.

Archived Reviews

8 of 25
Nice App
     
by finster3 · July 12, 2019

I like this app but it would be nice if they would occasionally put some new recipes in. The recipes in it are great but I don’t think it has been updated in a while

No longer opens
     
by hsquared53 · January 23, 2021

Nothing like buying a cookbook (I bought both this one and the veg one) only for them to completely stop working with future IOS updates. Neither app will even open now. I equate this to theft. If they aren’t going to maintain the app then they should give you the ebook versions for free.

Great content. App needs to keep up with the times.
     
by Maxence · May 25, 2019

The content in the app is top-notch. Mark Bittman is a gem. Sadly, the developer hasn’t been keeping up with the latest in iOS. The app is in desperate need of an update. At the very least they could update it for the iPhone X.

Auto unit conversion
     
by rle6 · March 25, 2019

I loved the cookbook and love this app for the same reasons. But now that I’ve moved overseas, I see that it converts to metric automatically. What a pleasant surprise!

Laughable outdated!
     
by iamblued · January 2, 2020

It’s been over a year since the last update and it looks just dreadful on modern Apple devices. Many bugs persist. The content is fantastic, but what a sad example of abandonware as the app gets uglier and uglier and more and more broken with each hardware and iOS update.

How to Cook Everything
     
by Shelbo42 · June 27, 2019

Many good recipes that are easy to use, but the indexing is bad. Alphabetical lists are not in keyword order.

Fantastic!
     
by LMM22 · September 5, 2019

I’ve been using this app since I had it on the iTouch. It’s a great reference and a reliable source of solid recipes.

Great App - PLEASE UPDATE THIS APP!!
     
by Chil7 · May 1, 2021

The app doesn’t work on IOS 14.5 but I’m still getting notifications!! I use it almost daily. My goto guide in the kitchen. I really like how Mark makes tricky recipes simple and I'm expanding my meal base all the time.

Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.

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