Recipe apps: discover the 7 best

In fact, who doesn't like to cook something delicious and tasty for the family, right? Fortunately, there are recipe apps that can facilitate this process.

Therefore, to help you understand more about the best recipe apps, I prepared today's article on the subject. Interested in finding out more? So follow me now!

The 7 best recipe apps

Tastemade

Find more than 3000 cooking recipes with their respective video tutorial, which easily explains how to prepare each of the recipes and the amount of ingredients you will use to make them. Download now! In fact, it is completely free and has a 4.5 star rating.

Tudo Gostoso

This app contains more than 100,000 recipes shared by other users, organized by category, such as: desserts, rice, stews, soups, meats and salads, you will also find special recipes to celebrate Valentine's Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving and much more .

Petitchef

More than 7,000 recipes to cook at home with your family or friends. You just need to search by title, ingredient, season or even time.

Furthermore, Petitchef has an offline mode, reading mode and creates a personalized cookbook with your favorite recipes.

Receitas Light

Discover the most delicious recipes with your favorite ingredients that you have at home. With this app you will have vegetable recipes, recipes with quinoa, avocado, chicken.

Recipes to learn how to prepare juices, healthy desserts, smoothies for those on a diet and salads for those who prefer healthy food.

Nestlé Receitas

Find more than 3,000 recipes and different types of dishes to prepare quickly and easily with recommendations from nutrition experts.

One of the things I like most about this app is that it has a daily recipe system. This means that every day it will show us a recommended dish that is easy to make.

The advantage of this system is that it will help us make a different dish every day without having to think about what we want to do today.

And if you don't like the recipe, just change it and it will show you the recommended recipes so you can choose the ones you like best.

Tasty Receitas

In fact, there are more than 1500 healthy recipes created by real nutritionists who created a plan with a weekly menu for each meal in search of reaching your goal.

In short, you also have direct contact with your nutritionist, exercises to do at home and a weekly shopping list.

YouTube

In fact, the Youtube application is present on all cell phones. In this app, we can find a multitude of recipes and channels that will allow us to find the dish or dessert we want to make.

Here you will certainly find the recipe channel that best suits your taste. Whatever you want to do, you will find it on Youtube through different recipes.

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Before deciding, check these points.

• Does the system already do that?. Android and iOS both come with built-in flashlight, recorder, document scanner, meter, and QR code reader. It's worth checking before installing yet another app.
• Billing model. Check if it's free with ads, a one-time payment, or a subscription. Subscriptions for simple tasks rarely make sense.
• Update frequency. An app that hasn't been updated in over a year is likely to break with the next system version.
• It works offline. Many of these utilities don't require internet access. If an app requires a connection for a local task, you should be suspicious.

What these apps don't do

Every category has a limit, and knowing this one's limit saves time and money by avoiding those who promise more than what's available.

• They are not a substitute for professional equipment. Cell phone sensors are for estimation, not for technically precise measurements.
• Features that rely on missing hardware won't work via software. Without the sensor, no application can solve the problem.
• Cleaning apps don't permanently speed up your device: Android already manages memory on its own.
• Apps that promise impossible functions are often advertising platforms, and some request permissions they shouldn't.

Common questions

Do I have to pay to use it?

In most utilities, no. The free version with ads works fine, and the paid version is for removing ads.

Does it work without internet?

Those that process locally, yes. Those that rely on a server require a connection and send their data externally.

Does a cleaning app improve performance?

A little and for a short time. The real gain comes from uninstalling what you don't use and freeing up storage space.

Does it consume a lot of battery?

It depends on what's running in the background. Check the usage per app in the settings and restrict anything that's excessive.

Doesn't the cell phone already do that automatically?

It often does. Flashlight, recorder, document scanning, ruler, and QR code reader are native features in recent versions.

How to truly take advantage of it.

1. Clear the cache of larger applications. You can do it app by app in the settings, without installing anything, and without losing your login or settings.
2. Restart before concluding that it's slow. Much of the slowness disappears with a restart, without needing any application.
3. Uninstall anything that hasn't opened in months. The list by usage time is in the settings. It's the most lasting way to save space.
4. See what takes up space before installing a cleaner. In Settings › Storage, the system itself shows the breakdown by type. Almost always the culprits are video and social media cache.

Common mistakes that are costly

• Install three utilities that do the same thing, all running in the background.
• Deleting an application folder through the file manager can result in lost data that cannot be recovered.
• Installing a cleaner that promises to speed up your phone — Android already manages memory on its own, and the gains don't last.
• Trusting an app that promises functionality without having the corresponding sensor on the device.

Before installing: what's already on the device

Android and iPhone already include features like a flashlight, voice recorder, document scanning, QR code reader, ruler, compass, level, and screen recording. Before installing, it's worth checking the settings – many people install what they already have.

Convert measurements without messing up the recipe.

Brazilian recipes measure in cups and spoons; translated recipes measure in grams, ounces, and US cups. Mixing up the systems is the number one cause of cakes not rising.

The problem is that a cup measures volume, and dry ingredients have very different densities. A standard 240 ml cup holds approximately:

• Wheat flour: approximately 120 to 130 g.
• Refined sugar: approximately 200 g.
• Compacted brown sugar: approximately 220 g.
• Butter: approximately 227 g.
• Milk or water: 240 g, because the density is close to 1.
• Cocoa powder: around 90 g.

In other words, "one cup" can mean 90g or 240g depending on what's inside. In pastry making, where the ratio of flour, fat, and liquid defines the structure, this mistake ruins the recipe.

Two solutions. The first is to use a scale: recipes in grams are reproducible, and a simple digital scale does the trick. The second, if you're measuring in cups, is to standardize the method — fill with a spoon and level with the back of a knife, without compacting or banging the cup on the counter, which can add 20% of flour without you realizing it.

Also be careful with the Brazilian coffee cup, which is not the recipe cup. The recipe reference is a teacup, which holds 240 ml.

Adjusting portions: what scales and what doesn't.

Almost every recipe app has a button that doubles or reduces quantities. It works by simple multiplication, and that's correct for ingredients but wrong for everything else.

What scales proportionally: flour, sugar, liquids, eggs (rounded up), fat, spices in general.

What doesn't scale:

• Cooking time. Doubling a cake recipe doesn't double the baking time. The batter will be taller, the heat will take longer to reach the center, and the rule is to reduce the temperature slightly and increase the time, testing with a toothpick.
• Mold size. Doubling the recipe in a pan of the same size will either cause it to overflow or create a raw mass in the middle.
• Salt and strong spices. They usually need less than double. It's better to get it right per test.
• Baking powder. Scale, but with a margin: too much leaves a residual taste and causes the dough to rise and then collapse.
• Pot capacity. Sautéing twice the amount of onion in the same pan will result in steaming instead of browning.

Rule of thumb: when folding, maintain the same dough thickness by using two molds instead of one larger one.

Replacements that really work

An ingredient was missing in the middle of the recipe. Not every substitution works, but some are reliable:

• Whole milk: It can be turned into milk with a little more fat, or plant-based milk in savory recipes and simple doughs.
• Cream in hot sauce: This can be replaced with milk thickened with a little cornstarch, taking care not to boil it too much.
• Baking powder: In an emergency, baking soda mixed with an acid — such as lemon juice or vinegar — produces a similar effect, albeit to a lesser extent.
• Buttermilk: Milk with a tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar, let it rest for five minutes.
• Egg in pasta: In simple cakes, a mashed banana or a spoonful of hydrated flaxseed can bind the ingredients, but will change the flavor and texture.
• White wine in risotto: Broth with a little vinegar or lemon.

What you shouldn't substitute without consequences: biological yeast for chemical yeast, wheat flour for gluten-free flour in recipes that depend on structure, and sugar for sweetener in recipes where it caramelizes or adds moisture. In these cases, it's best to look for a recipe already formulated for the ingredient you have.

Food security: the numbers that matter

Cooking well includes not getting sick. Here are some widely adopted guidelines from health authorities:

• Whole and ground poultry: Cook until the internal temperature reaches 74°C.
• Ground beef and sausage: 71 °C, because the contamination is distributed throughout the mass.
• Whole cuts of beef and pork: starting at 63 °C, with rest.
• Fish: at around 63°C, or until the meat flakes easily.
• Risk zone: Between 5°C and 60°C, bacteria multiply rapidly. Prepared food should not be kept in this range for more than two hours.
• Refrigerator: Below 5°C. Freezer: Below -18°C.

Other practices that prevent cross-contamination include: using different cutting boards for raw meat and cooked food; not washing raw chicken, as this spreads bacteria across the sink; defrosting in the refrigerator, not on the countertop; and quickly cooling leftovers in smaller portions before storing. Cooked leftovers generally last three to four days in the refrigerator.

A kitchen thermometer is inexpensive and the only way to know the internal temperature. The color of the meat is not a reliable indicator.

Using your cell phone in the kitchen without damaging the device.

Practical details that make a difference during preparation:

1. Leave the screen always on. Several recipe apps have a cooking mode that prevents automatic shutdown — avoiding unlocking your phone with your hands covered in dough.
2. Use voice commands For timers and for advancing steps. It's the most useful feature and the least used.
3. Multiple timers. The system clock allows for more than one named alarm, which solves the problem of recipes with multiple simultaneous steps.
4. Protect the device. A clear plastic bag allows you to touch the screen without getting it dirty. Heat, steam, and grease are the enemies: keeping your cell phone away from the stove prolongs the device's life.
5. Save recipes offline. Cooking without internet happens, and a recipe that fails to load mid-preparation is a problem.
6. Create a shopping list based on the recipe. Most apps export the ingredients directly to a list, grouping them by market section.

One last tip that saves more money than any promotion: plan your weekly menu before making your shopping list, and create the list based on what you already have in your refrigerator. A large part of household waste comes from buying ingredients for a recipe and only using part of them.