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WINDOWS 8<br />
iCookbook<br />
iCookbook is a recipes app for Windows 8. It’s free and updates<br />
automatically, but is this Windows 8 app worth an install?<br />
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VERDICT<br />
It’s a shame the<br />
ingredients are given<br />
in US measurements,<br />
because iCookbook<br />
has a great deal<br />
of potential<br />
OVERALL SCORE<br />
REQUIREMENTS<br />
Windows 8<br />
ICookbook for Windows 8 is bound to include something that will tempt you<br />
into donning your chef’s hat and start cooking up a storm. Although iCookbook<br />
is free, it is listed in the Windows Store as a trial version. At the time of writing<br />
the app offered just under 1,500 recipes, but it’s updated all the time.<br />
Each recipe has a large photo, a difficulty rating and an indication of how<br />
many portions it makes. The ingredients are given in US measurements, though,<br />
and while there’s a unit-conversion tool you can’t customise iCookbook so<br />
that it displays measurements in your chosen format. The other aspect that<br />
doesn’t work well is the side-scrolling design.<br />
Navigation is optimised for a Windows 8 tablet or a touchscreen laptop or<br />
PC. Holding down the right arrow key on a laptop keyboard is currently the only<br />
option, and this works very slowly and only in some sections of the app.<br />
Better is the fact you can leave iCookbook and have it return to the recipe<br />
page you left. Recently viewed recipes and any you mark as favourites appear in<br />
panes on the opening screen. The search option is not fully implemented, but you<br />
can view by dish and then by ingredient, theme, occasion and cuisine type.<br />
There are, however, no ‘lighter choices’ such as healthy eating, diabetic,<br />
vegetarian or wheat-free either. There is a salad section, but the 55 recipes<br />
here are anything but dainty.<br />
iCookbook has a great deal of potential and the navigation issues will be<br />
sorted out once touchscreen Windows computing is the norm, while the huge<br />
photo visuals and large type are ideal for at-a-glance consultation in the kitchen.<br />
A search option, healthier foodstuffs and measurements in the user’s preferred<br />
units will vastly improve this app.<br />
iCookbook is automatically updated with new recipes, and offers difficulty<br />
ratings for recipes, but the ingredients are in US measurements, and the<br />
side-scrolling design is flawed.<br />
iCookbook REVIEWS<br />
“Huge photo<br />
visuals and<br />
large type<br />
are ideal for<br />
at-a-glance<br />
consultation<br />
in the<br />
kitchen”<br />
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