March 29, 2024

Tablets, apps ...: 8 new tools for cooking 2.0

The tablets :
Qooq

The pioneer? And the most popular kitchen tablet offers more than 4,000 receipts (packs available individually or by subscription) and videos of hundreds of renowned chefs and a menu planning service and adjustment of the quantities of ingredients depending on the number of guests, among others. Super easy to use and maintain, this screen made in France has in addition a design as crisp as ergonomic and irresistible acid colors (Apple Green, Tangerine, Rose, Lemon Yellow, Eggplant, red, cream and black).

349?, Available at Fnac and on www.qooq.com (list of other points of sale on the site)
Cuisinix

This "groom-tablet 100% multimedia" (Android) offers a portal Cuisine & Courses (touch timer, feed nutrition info-health, shopping list, discount coupons, access to reference sites Marmiton, Cuisine AZ, 750g .. .) and a multimedia tablet for the whole family. From the clever theme guide that lists websites and apps in 20 categories (meal plans, diet & form, coffee & tea, wines & dishes...), compose your own portal by adding the desired applications and sites at will using AppsLib.
249,99?, Available on www.cuisinix.fr
MyFoodle of Seb

For serial movers or trendy foodistas who prefer not to be burdened with dozens of notebooks receipts annotated, this virtual and connected workbook makes it possible to classify and store its receipts cooking in one click by collections or thematic but also to share them within his community of friends cooks. With a converter, an ingredient substitution guide and a wealth of practical information such as the cooking time of each ingredient for example, the interactive, participatory and free Foodle concept is usable alone (www.lefoodle .com) or in addition to its SEB tablet.
199?, Available from Darty, Boulanger, Amazon and L'Atelier des chefs


The apps:

Marmiton
No.1 free cooking apps, Marmiton gives access to more than 50,000 receipts sugary and salty either by typing their name or starting from an ingredient, but also to grasp a level of difficulty and the desired cost of its dish, to specify if one wishes a recipe vegetarian or select only those receipts with a photo, to memorize receipts favorites, manage your shopping list and access the history of your last queries.

The Cook Book
If you spend hours looking for your own receipts in loose leaves scattered according books and notebooks, this app is for you! Because she does not propose receipts but allows you to create your own cookbook by exporting receipts e-mails, sites or a grandmother's book. And for the social media side, know that you can then share them on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr via the app.
1.79? on the App Store

Smart Bordeaux
The Bordeaux being the most bought wine by the French (63%), this free recognition tool (on photo of the label / barcode / QR code of your bottle or by entering the name of the Château / brand ) and providing information (domain, appellation, awards, tasting and consumption advice, food and wine pairing ...) on all Bordeaux wines (17,000 castles and brands referenced) will find its public (available on the App Store and Google play). Always free and wider, Wines & Vintages (Hachette Livre) helps you choose your wine at the supermarket or restaurant and Smart Cave (for iPhone and Android) allows you to manage your cellar.


The websites:
Smartlibris.com
If, like 70% of amateur cooks *, you choose to connect to the Internet to find inspiration (cookbooks only attract 55% of foodistas), you have found your site! With more than 500 referenced online cookbooks, the "Family Digital Library" allows you to read entire cookbooks (cookbooks), with a wide range of titles ranging from Asian and Italian cuisine to tapas. , pies and tajines through the best of receipts for centrifuge.
* Kelkoo study, published on March 20, 2012 (online survey conducted between February 17 and March 8, 2012 among 1492 French Internet users).


Social networks :
Super-Marmite.com
The first social network of local cuisine offers to buy and sell small dishes homemade near home. Original, user-friendly and very easy to use, it connects foodies who are efficient and in a hurry, wanting to enjoy a good meal without having to cook it, and lovers of stoves who want to share their know-how by adding a little nutty butter. in their spinach. It is not for nothing that Super-marmite received the 1st prize of originality at the LeWeb international contest at the end of 2010.



Cooklet App for tablets (March 2024)