I hate to cook! Since having this app, I have cooked multiple meals. I pick up random things in the grocery store and enter them in the app. Then when I'm ready to cook, I search by the main ingredient I want to use. I've created some delicious meals I never would've attempted before this app was in my life. Plus, most recipes I've tried so far have taken under an hour to make! Score!
Reviews for SuperCook – Recipe Generator
I often have leftover ingredients from various recipes that seem too random to make anything, so I end up overspending on food and then wasting it. I was making a shopping list for the week just now and noticing that my pantry is full but it just didn't seem like I had anything useful. I had an idea and googled "ingredient based recipe generator," found this app half an hour ago, and am currently enjoying a delicious lunch of spaghetti with toasted walnuts, lemon, olive oil, and black pepper!
Super helpful, saves money, gets me in the kitchen more often. I downloaded this after I moved to an apartment alone. I know how to cook but didn't do it often. Now that I live alone, I sometimes just buy ingredients I want to try and put them in the app's pantry. I've found all kinds of recipes I didn't even know I had the ingredients for. Saving me from going to the groceries as often and using all my ingredients with little waste. App could use a better UI and easier input/search system.
I have saved time trying to figure out what to do for dinner, and it knows what I have in my pantry to suggest meals for things I have on hand. You can curate what you are looking for, add ingredients over time, exclude certain things if you don't want to use something, etc. The BEST part for me is USING UP MY FOOD THAT HAS AN APPROACHING EXPIRATION! I have suggested this app to others, and they like it too. Also, to add... they have a web version to check it out before downloading the app.
As a beginner to cooking this app has easily helped me learn how to cook and be resourceful. The app encourages me by giving me a count on how many different meals I can make with what I own. I'm also able to filter recipes by meal type, diet restrictions, ingredients, etc. I highly recommend this app to anyone who wants to cook an impressive meal for the first time or who just wants to be creative with what they have. I hope you enjoy this app as much as I do.
I TELL (as in, no typing, I just narrate ingredients aloud) this app what's in my fridge and pantry, and it gives me 2,000 (filterable! searchable!) recipes, using those ingredients! Truly fantastic. Also shows recipes that I have all but one, or two ingredients for as well. If you're not great at cooking, it can be hard to see which recipes are going to work as written, but if you have some experience in the kitchen, this is an incredible source of ideas and inspiration.
I always have a hard time making recipes unless I have overflowing cupboards, but groceries are so expensive and this has really helped me stretch out our staple ingredients more. The only thing preventing me from 5 stars is that I always seem to have to go edit my pantry because ingredients will appear and disappear at random between app closing and opening again. It's so frustrating adding all those ingredients again. If I'm doing something wrong, let me know! I would love to 5 star this
To start, I do think this is a great concept and is well implemented for recipes and keeping track of what's in your pantry. The only problem I have is that the ingredient list is very limited. I cannot add items it doesn't have in its system, mostly health and vegetarian food. If there was an option to add your own foods it would be great (or at least more options). It would get 5 stars. I know my diet isn't conventional! Things unfound include non dairy cheeses and meat alternatives etc
I searched for an app that would give me recipes based on ingredients, and that's exactly what I got. The ingredient lists are broken down into categories and you can very thoroughly select all of your ingredients, sauces, spices, meats, cheeses, vegetables, grains, etc. Very thorough. Then it gives you all of the recipes you can make with those ingredients. You can favorite the recipes with a very simple sign up process. This is going to make meal planning a breeze!
Nice selection of recipes from around the web, and good features for filtering and exploring recipes. My main note is that the provided ingredient list is not vegan friendly. There are many proteins available beyond tofu, the only choice offered. By contrast, the lists for meat, fish, and dairy are extensive. I ended up having to list many ingredients as the closest non-vegan alternative, and couldn't find anything to approximate tempeh.