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Dishy lands in the App Store and your kitchen
I wrote up a sneak peek of Dishy [iTunes Link] earlier in the summer when I saw a preview at WWDC. It was called Bon App at the time, and man it looked tasty. Well the app is now out and it rocks. I've been testing a demo for a little while and I wish more cooking apps worked like this.Dishy takes you from meal planning to shopping to cooking in one convenient app. It is not like some food apps, which are designed to be recipe databases. Instead, Dishy focuses on a few recipes that have been tested by a real chef and uses those to create a small but tasty (and powerful) database. Don't let the inability to enter or alter recipes deter you -- if you are a beginner cook who wants to cook (nearly) like a pro, Dishy is the best step I've seen in that direction. The great experience coupled with a brilliant way of finding dishes to cook makes prepping food less of a chore, for sure.
The flow works like this: choose your dishes, collect your ingredients, then go through the cooking process for each dish. Dishy handles every step with beautiful panache, as seen in their demo video here. Two key features in Dishy: a graph showing how long each dish takes to cook and the ability to fine-tune recipe options. You don't want cold veggies and burnt meat, and Dishy helps you avoid this common bungle by showing you a nifty chart of when to start each dish (see gallery).
If you love to cook or if you've wanted to try preparing a cohesive meal, I recommend you give Dishy a try.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mark Felix said 2:38PM on 10-04-2009
An excellent review. I downloaded the app based on your recommendation and it works really well. The recipes were very impressive and made me look like a real pro chef!!
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steve gowin said 2:10PM on 10-12-2009
Really? You submitted your comment 30 minutes after this article was posted and already had enough time to prepare some recipes that made you "look like a pro". Or did the app make you look like a pro in some other non-cooking manner? I smell a stooge (stooge: an old magicians term for an accomplice or assistant pretending to be an audience member).
steve gowin said 2:20PM on 10-12-2009
My bad. Didn't notice that the article was posted one week ago and your post was 2 days and 30 minutes later. I apologize.
Maxwell said 1:04PM on 10-12-2009
Sorry - If they don't know how to spell Cobb Salad, their credibility suffers.
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Mark Felix said 3:54PM on 10-12-2009
Its the British spelling....
mikehild said 2:01PM on 10-12-2009
I'm not familiar with Cobb Salad, but Google searches show it being spelled both ways. Could just be a regional thing, like color vs. colour.