App Aims: Invite Technology Into The Kitchen

Reviewer’s Comments
If you have an onion, a few eggs and some spinach sitting in your refrigerator and are wondering what to do with them…stop staring dumbfounded and use 160000 Recipes—BigOven to help you. Enter your ingredients and immediately get a list of recipes using those items. No cookbook, no matter how great it is, can do that.

This app provides access to all types of information, from buying and handling tips to comments about recipes to random recipe suggestions. This app heavily relies on the related website www.bigoven.com which has been up and running for a pretty long time now. The app accesses most of its information, including recipes and images through this site.

160,000 Recipes—BigOven is almost there. We see tons of potential with this app. It’s incredibly useful if it is connected to the internet. However, while shopping in the grocery store, you may not have a connection or be dealing with a slow connection, which would make the app too painful to be useful. At home or connected to WiFi though, this app is extraordinarily useful, educational and inspiring.

We enjoyed this program while we were connected to the internet. In the future, we’d like to see it become more capable offline. In addition, one of the peculiar things about this app is that in order to post a recipe to the BigOven site you have to install “BigOven for Windows” onto a PC, not that convenient for Mac users. However, supposedly it works with Crossover Software.

Check out our iPhone 3G review, music and movie download reviews as well as our other App reviews to help you get the most out of your iPhone. Or you may be interested in our review of BigOven Deluxe Inspired Cooking.