There are a lot of great food apps for iOS. Epicurious is free and full of great recipes, Michael Ruhlman's Ratio is great when you need to recalculate the portions of a recipe and Smart Chef Substitutions takes some of the pain out of forgetting an ingredient. But the trouble with using just one of those great apps is exactly that: it can only be one.
Say you're looking through Mark Bittman's app and discover you need to change the number of servings for a bouillabaisse for your party. Not possible on old iOS 4. On iOS 5 you can swipe to switch between apps. We also keep a TV in the kitchen for background music or for eating alone. But the ability to mirror the iPad on a TV means we can use that screen in any part of our kitchen without having to keep the iPad with us.
The ability to swipe to other apps in iOS5 is going to open us up to using the iPad all the time in the kitchen. Now we just need to figure out a better way to keep our iPad clean than putting it in a plastic bag...
Do you use your iPad in the Kitchen? Tell us how in the comments.
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I use the Weight Watchers Kitchen companion on my iPad in the kitchen. It's so very handy with the check boxes to mark as you complete each step. It also has built in mini-timers for each step that has a time element.
We use a cookbook stand with a clear acrylic cover. Flip down to use, flip up as splashguard.
You can protect your iPad when cooking with the Chef Sleeve. More info: www.chefsleeve.com
We think our iPad apps will be much more useful! Read the kitchn's review of Conversions for Cooking and Substitutions.
Huh? This article is completely wrong. The same can be done in iOS 4.
DavidBeegle is absolutely correct, this was available in iOS 4 with a minimum of tweaking. And even without shipping, my iPad has been very useful in the kitchen from day 1.
As such, this WAS NOT offered in iOS 4, but there was a little-known trick that was available without tweaking that offered a similar function: double-pressing the square button to bring up a menu of most recently used apps. The last app used would show first, the one used before it shows second, and so on.
This new function is merely an improvement, albeit welcome, over what iOS 4 offered.