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I’ve been using NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals for a couple months now. It’s basically a recipe app with tons of easy-to-make dishes from the New York Times. Pretty solid if you’re into cooking and trying new recipes.
Here’s what you can do – there are thousands of recipes, from quick weeknight dinners to fancy holiday meals. The app has helpful videos to walk you through the steps, and you can save your favorites in a digital recipe box. It’s got collections curated by the editors too, so it’s easy to find the right recipe. And the grocery list feature is super useful when you’re planning meals.
Look, if you like to cook at home, you’ll probably get a lot of use out of this app. It’s not perfect – the app can be a little buggy sometimes and the free version has some annoying ads. But overall it’s a pretty good cooking companion and worth checking out.
Editor Opinion
So here's my honest take on NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals. I've tested a bunch of cooking and recipe apps, and this one's right up there with the best. The recipe selection is fantastic, with a great mix of quick weeknight meals, healthy options, and show-stopping dishes. The video tutorials are really well done and make the recipes easy to follow. In my experience, the meals turn out great every time. The only downsides are some occasional bugs and the ads in the free version, but you can get rid of those by subscribing. Overall, if you're a home cook who's always on the hunt for new recipes, NYT Cooking is definitely worth a download.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Tons of delicious, easy-to-make recipes
- Helpful video tutorials for each dish
- Useful features like a digital recipe box and grocery lists
- Recipes are all tested to be accurate and tasty
- New recipes and content added daily
Cons
- App can be buggy sometimes
- Ads in the free version can get annoying
- Subscription required to unlock all features
- Recipe instructions can be a bit complicated for total beginners
Specifications
| Updated | 07.10.2025 |
| Category | Food And Drink |
| Age Rating | Everyone |
| Developer | The New York Times Company |
| Android | Android 10++ |
| Package Name |
com.nytimes.cooking |
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User Reviews
It would be handy if I could communicate to the app that I'm vegetarian and to stop promising me 5-star recipes via push notification that turn out to be chicken....
The app could use a lot of improvement with respect to its recipe discovery. It would be very easy for them to add search fields by cuisine, ingredient, rating score,...
At least 50% of the time, the app tells me it can't load the feed because I'm "offline." I have unlimited data and I'm on WiFi at home. The app...
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