![]() ![]() It has timers built-in that recognize times in the instructions, so you can click on it and have it create a timer for that section. Ingredient amounts can be automatically scaled up or down. Ingredient units can be easily converted between metric and standard. Paprika comes with hundreds of pre-configured sites, everything from recipe sites like Allrecipes and BBC Food, to food blogs like Smitten Kitchen and Yoga Journal, but honestly, I haven’t found one yet it can’t automagically grab from.Īny recipe you grab can be edited and notes can be stored. With ingredients, photos, instructions, and nutritional information all organized and stored. It’s a purpose-built program that has one killer feature - it lets you browse the internet and when you see a recipe you like, you hit the button and it grabs the recipe and stores in Paprika. I’m keeping all the cookbooks I’ve collected while travelling as the recipes are often unique to a region and difficult to find online but many of my formerly go-to cookbooks are gathering dust these days.įor a long time I used Evernote as a freeform recipe storage database, but I’ve been moving everything to Paprika. And part of the reason I have started giving them away is I’m finally storing most of my recipes on my computer. I gave away 100 last year and still have, well, a lot. And once I have done this, I modify the recipe, so I don’t have to keep remembering to reduce the amount. Are your cookies coming out of the oven puffy and magical and then falling flat while they cool? This is why. baking that uses baking powder and/or baking soda) I have to use about 20% less than called for in the recipe because Fernie is over 1000m. I especially like to do this with recipes that I modify.įor example, I’ve discovered that for a lot of chemically leavened baking (i.e. So, these days I like to capture them and keep them on my computer. ![]() I used to bookmark the good ones with Del.icio. For me, the difference has been that I’m no longer looking just to find a recipe. Finding recipes online has become the norm. I made mention of a couple of recipe programs for your computer, but the thrust of the column was on finding recipes. Way back in 2008, I wrote a column for the Fernie Fix on finding recipes online. I wrote about Epicurious,, and, all of which are still extremely popular. ![]()
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