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Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.

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Re: Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.

#2
For those of us that end up making notes whilst trying to work out the timings for meals - this is genius and will save me lots of time. If I still had an iPhone I'd be all over this, but...

22 recipes doesn't seem like a lot - a way for users to submit their own recipes (webapp?) for use with the app would be fantastic.

Re: Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.

#4
Love the idea. Using Gantt charts to plan a meal has never occurred to me, but the idea is brilliant. I'm going to have to try doing that some time. I do have two questions though. From the page it's unclear if I can easily enter my own recipes and also can it handle preparing several different recipes (soup, starter, main course, side dishes and desert) in parallel? If it can't, the app would be pretty useless to me as it stands. Still love the idea and hope you develop it further.

Re: Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.

#7
Looks lovely. This works really well - I've been doing the same thing on paper for years. I do find however, that you need to make the recipe a few times from the long winded version which will often have tips or extra info which can't be crammed into the diagrammatic version.

TBH it would seem more natural as a web app though. Easier to expand content too buf of course it's more difficult to monetize.

Re: Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.

#8
Great presentation of a "why didn't anyone think of this?" idea.

Would be good as a web app, especially if you could find a way to let people add their own recipes and have them automagically turn into useful charts.

You could then host those recipes or share them with others (think of Mom telling her son at uni how to make a roast).

ETA: Problems like 'how to create the workflow' may have already been solved by large scale manufacturers. This is simply the kitchen-based equivalent.

Even publishers might be interested if there was a way of taking the bland text input and then having a chart as the output since it would make recipes more readable. As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, an iPad version would also be great.

Re: Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.

#9
post #6

Nice idea, but I would be concerned about using my iPhone in the kitchen - how do I avoid it getting greasy.

This is a pretty big flaw.

I would highly recommend the developer add a simple voice recognition functionality. Even something as simple as "next" & "back" which scrolls the screen would improve the usefulness of this app.

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