NYT Cooking

Name: NYT Cooking
Rating: 4.91784 (376674 reviews)

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NYT Cooking

Food & Drink

4.9

376.7K ratings

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The New York Times Company (iDP)

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User Reviews for NYT Cooking

Threatening emails and dark patterns

I was happy with the app, and then one of my credit cards expired and I forgot to update it. Then came… the slew of threatening-sounding emails saying my payment is “past due,” “urgent billing notice,” etc. So then I had had it and went to cancel the subscription, and that’s when I saw the dark pattern. It says you have to call to cancel, but then you log into your account and there’s another option to cancel by chatting with an agent. There is no other way to cancel your subscription- you can’t do it on your own on the app or website like you can with almost any other subscription service. And if you don’t pay the past due amount for the subscription you weren’t using anyway, you’ll just keep getting the emails. Even after you cancel your subscription. Yikes.I wonder how much money NYT actually gets back this way, and if it actually offsets the cost of having chat and phone agents dealing with subscription cancellations, which I can imagine is one of the top reasons people contact them.Anyway, I was planning to cancel and maybe come back at a later date when I’m done traveling, but because of this dark pattern and threatening emails I plan to never come back. Hope that last $5 was worth it!

alitaccd, Jun 05, 2021

Fabulous Cauliflower Lemon & Dill recipe, quick & ez

Fabulous dish! It was hard not to get a second helping. I made this for a quick late dinner tonight, with the following mods: I steamed the cauliflower 5 mins 1st, because we wanted to eat it right away. I cut the oil to just 1/3 C & it was plenty! I love them so I used extra scallions, 5 stalks. I was out of parsley, so I cut up the same amount of wild (tender & small) arugula. It was a lovely addition, without harm to the deliciousness of this recipe. I used 5 big cloves of “pressed” garlic, and added an extra 1/2 of a lemon’s juice. I was also out of jalepeño, but a large pinch of red chili flakes gave it flavor & a touch of heat. I also added 1 Tbsp of capers & about 1/4 tsp of the caper juice from the jar. It was a tasty addition. Fresh dill was ruined from the heat (pity) but used 1/3 C + of freshly dried & it was nice & dill-y! Delish! Easy. Quick. I highly recommend this new-to-me Melissa Clark recipe! Even as is, I can tell it would’ve been amazing too! It’s going into regular rotation ❤️ & next time I may add some steamed brown rice to round out this for a plant-based meal! Enjoy!

Annie Moore, Sep 14, 2022

Almost perfect

This is my go-to place for finding and then organizing recipes. It is easy to use, and wonderful for exploring and for finding help on cooking techniques. The ability to add recipes from other online sites is a generous plus. The whole design of the app is elegant and clean. My one (minor, but...) complaint that keeps from getting this 5 stars is that the categories were added a few releases ago and I cannot override or change them. I had already set up my own categories at that point and the “enforced” ones are more numerous and also more general than I like. The Brunch category for example duplicates a category I had set up, but about 80% of our selections match—do I sort through each group and modify (tricky to do on a mobile phone!) so I can delete my old Brunch category, or do I leave both of them.....grrrr. Some of the new categories are general—Dinner for example—where I would rather set up my own according to type of food—casserole, meat, nonmeat, etc. I would like to be able to do away with the NYT defined categories altogether, but can’t see a way to do that. So I am left with all their new categories, many of my own, and lots of duplication. It’s frustrating in an otherwise well designed app. I still consider it my favorite and highly recommend it.

Bj28$, Aug 27, 2018

Inspiration and direction for the beat up cook

BC (before Covid) I looked to NYT and its amazing parade of food artists for a new idea or a new way to entertain guests or wow family (so the kids would visit more often) with new dishes or a twist on the old ones. DC (during) is making this more important than ever even if there are only the two of us in it together for the ling haul. Food is a variable when we are all starved for social stimulus and the normal variations in life that are stymied by C. Like so many, I’ve made bread for the first time—successfully—thanks to Mark Bittman and countless reader tips along with his own updates to a recipe that should be awarded the Nobel Peace prize. Who can disagree over hot bread and butter? And the perfected recipes that pop up daily or I find as I search the site have resulted from the in perfect hasslebacks, amazing skillet chops and steaks, 1137 recipes for amazing chicken dishes. Honestly, I now have a collection of food porn pictures and I never photographed anything but the beautiful cakes I made BC. I bought my sister a subscription for her birthday because every night now she wants a pix of what’s for dinner and an explanation of how to make it. Totally worth it! It’s my cooking Geritol!

Former agent, Mar 31, 2022

The recipes are incredible, the app not so much

The recipes are so worth the money but the app is annoying to use. Anytime your phone screen goes into rest mode (dark after x minutes, whatever your setting), or you are in a different app for too long, the app refreshes you back to the main landing page. Which means you have to search for the recipe you are cooking every time you turn away from the phone. Not helpful when you may only have one finger not dirty and just want to see what ingredient goes in next. Also the saving feature is horrible. I wish they would use the same touch/responsiveness options as Pinterest say, where you can hold down on a recipe and a menu of which recipe box to save it in appears. As it is now, the first time you tap on the save button, no matter how long you hold it down, you can’t save it to an individual recipe list, just your general bookmarks. You must then press and hold on the tiny banner for it to then ask you if you want to save it onto a recipe box, then you go through to find which one. Makes creating quick recipe lists really laborious.I love these recipes so much, that’s the only reason I’m begging for some UI changes!

Garol Northbrother, Aug 17, 2019

Cannot beat this cookbook!

Every chef will have a decent take on most recipes, which will do in a pinch. But no chef and no team is going to have the traditional recipe for every dish in every cuisine on the globe with suggestions on what you can do to make it fantastic. New York City is one of a handful of cities in which every country and ethnicity is represented. Where else can you find what is a reasonable substitute when a rare ingredient is out of season, or how to manage a hard dried stored version of a hard to find and mostly unknown ingredient? If my friend is homesick for the Singaporean Chicken and Rice she grew up on, I want to have the real thing when she gets here and I will look here. If I want to reinstate our family tradition of making sweet chile rellenos the day before a holiday and I can’t remember how much cloves to add, I am going to look here. It is possible to have a cookbook for most cuisines, but not all. But someone in NY remembers making dumplings with their mom in Tibet before the family escaped and arrived in NYC and they will contribute the recipe if someone needs it. I have not looked for every recipe I mentioned so I hope I don’t disappoint but if you need one that is not here, then ask! And it WILL be here. This is, hands down, my go to if I want the REAL recipe for…well…Anything!

Maobfh, Apr 04, 2022

This app inspires

The NYT cooking app has given a new lease on life to my nightly dinner prep. I search the app almost every evening for inspiration about how to make a tasty meal from the random items in my fridge - that still-snowy-white cauliflower I bought a week ago, the frozen shrimp, the impulse purchase of a new harissa sauce. It never fails me. If I don’t have all the ingredients in a recipe, I don’t run to the store, but improvise. I substitute parsley for cilantro, sweet onions for leeks, or just omit. I love that all the recipes are attributed to chefs I’ve come to know from regular reading of the Times, so I can prioritize my favorites, whose tastes are a good match for my household’s. This alone makes the app far more reliable than the recipes that pop up on a random Google search. If I happen to be connected to a printer, I print a hard copy for reference in the kitchen. If not, I prop up my smart phone or tablet on the kitchen counter, fetch my ingredients from the convenient list at the top, and switch over to a news program to stave off kitchen ennui while I chop and simmer. My only complaint is that the recipes tend to underestimate prep and cooking time, so I’ve learned it’s best to allow some extra time. But the $39/year was a great expenditure.

Sad 3, Feb 10, 2019

Literally Life changing

I am an enthusiastic cook during normal times. Living in Seattle and fortunate to be able to source great ingredients—specifically fish and shellfish just hours out of the water, meal preparation has never been a chore. But during pandemic times, even the occasional special meal “out” has been put on ice since February, due to a high risk situation that makes it really not worth the bother. So I’ve sharpened my knives, organized my pantry and soldiered on. I’m not generally a cookbook user—yes, I do collect them and subscribe to all the usual suspects on a monthly or quarterly basis, but I rely on a book or magazine more for a concept to riff on or a food trend to explore. But when I began delving into NYT Cooking—a part of my Times subscription at large, that changed. There are so many great recipes it makes it easy to cook anything and everything from a pantry pasta to the most elaborate meal and have an excellent outcome—and fun along the way. I am a lifestyle journalist, so I love the context and backstory of each recipe—reading the accompanying article is a great source of pleasure. But these recipes really work and the shopping list tool is a handy helper. In short, I’ve found an endless source of material, entertainment and great food at my fingertips. Thank you for keeping me inspired and cooking with joy! ❤️

Smitten in Seattle, Sep 04, 2021

Limited Content

I have used and enjoyed this app for a number of years. The recipes are usually quite good and the ability to save ones you would like to try is wonderful. This is one of my first resources when looking for a specific recipe for something like mushroom soup or chocolate soufflé. However; I have recently become very frustrated with one newly changed facet of the app. Previously, I was able to read the food articles as well as the recipes as part of my paid subscription. For example, the app will list a recipe and in its blurb would be referenced and linked a cooking column from which the recipe originated. I enjoyed reading the cooking articles and seeing the other related recipes. Now, however, the app is asking me to pay for an additional subscription to the newspaper to read these articles. This seems quite silly to me as I’m already paying for the cooking content and was previously able to read all of the cooking content for my annual subscription fee. I’m not trying to read yesterday’s front page headlines, I’m trying to read a 5 year old cooking column. This limitation has very much decreased my enjoyment and usage of the app. I am now considering dropping my cooking subscription since I can no longer access all of the ‘cooking’ content.

SouthernDame2, Jun 27, 2022

How to save a life

The app has one shortcoming: it lists ingredients in one pane, then it lists directions in another. “Add the salt and baking powder” means flipping back to the ingredients pane to see measurements. For those cooks who pre-measure all their ingredients then line them up on the counter waiting to deploy them, that’s great. Nothing in my life is that planned. Regardless, when my significant other got sick, I discovered that this app helped me keep both of us alive with excellent, tasty food, brilliant how-to videos, and an awesome depth of recipe types and cuisines. Something like 15,000 recipes, searchable and categorized, much larger and more efficient than any cookbook. The handy shopping list feature lets me download the ingredients to my phone to take to the grocery store, giving me more time to care for our house, our pets, and her. I use this app every day. As her health declines, my other half says she just wants plain, no fuss food, then gladly accepts the NYT grilled cheese and tomato soup, or Sifton’s smash burger. It doesn’t take hours of preparing a Julia Child-worthy meal in order to find little gems in this app that are simple and delicious. And quick. This app has restored a great bit of my quality of life. I love it, and I love the NYT for providing it. It’s really a life saver in the sense that life is more than continuing to breathe and pump blood. For that, we have doctors. For life, we have the NYT.

yearwoodj, Jun 26, 2022

Description

Make your time in the kitchen easier with the NYT Cooking app. Search thousands of New York Times recipes and organize your favorites so you can cook for anyone, anytime. Subscribe in the app, or if you’re already a NYT Cooking subscriber, log in for unlimited access to our recipes and much more.

RECIPE BOX Save your favorite recipes here, and organize them into personalized folders for easy access. ALWAYS-ON APP SCREEN Follow recipes easily on a screen that won’t go dark. ADVANCED SEARCH Find recipes by diet, cuisine, meal type and more from our database of over 20,000 recipes. GROCERY LIST Choose the recipes you plan to cook, then organize the ingredients into one list. GUIDES Discover recipes, videos, techniques and tips for novices and experienced home cooks. PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS Enjoy suggestions based on the recipes you’ve saved. This makes it easy to find your next meal. RECIPE NOTES Get advice from home cooks on ingredient swaps and more, or leave your own tips. iPAD COMPATIBILITY Experience high-resolution photos and videos on a larger screen, keep multiple windows open and drag and drop recipes into folders in your Recipe Box. Subscription Options: - Monthly NYT Cooking subscription: $4.99. Cancel anytime. - Annual NYT Cooking subscription: $39.99. Cancel anytime. Your payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew each month or year 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your credit card will be charged through your iTunes account unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Privacy Policy: https://www.nytimes.com/content/help/rights/privacy/policy/privacy-policy.html Terms of Service: https://www.nytimes.com/content/help/rights/terms/terms-of-service.html California Notices: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/california-notice Feedback? Suggestions? Problems? Please contact us from within our app settings or at [email protected]. Your feedback is important to us and we’ll do our best to assist you. Please note: A subscription to NYT Cooking does not include access to any other New York Times products, including but not limited to nytimes.com, mobile news content and other apps. No cancellations are allowed during active subscription periods.