It has all sorts of nifty aspects. The home page has categories with recipes catering toward the current season or holiday, specific health needs, family dynamics, whatever you can think of. It also allows you to search their recipe database by selecting certain things you want to include in your meal...for example, if I want to make dinner using chicken and broccoli and I want it to be an Indian dish that is low in sodium, I can choose all those categories and the app will generate a list of recipes for me that have each characteristic. It also allows you to tag those recipes (kind of like pinterest) for later access, and even creates a grocery list for you if you want. It's wonderful.
Come to find out, epicurious also has a website! It's a little different than the app, but it has all the recipes and lots of handy categories for searching. It also has tons of short videos about various cooking techniques that are very informative and interesting. Did you know that you can test meat doneness by touching your thumb to each finger and pushing down with you other hand on the flesh at the base of that thumb, comparing the firmness of your palm to the firmness of the meat you've cooked? When you're not pushing any fingers together, that is what rare meat feels like. Pointer finger is medium rare and so on until you reach the pinky, which is similar to well done meat. That is probably a very confusing explanation...search the video and it will make more sense. But who knew! Not me, until I started browsing around the epicurious website. I'm never cutting my steak open to check if it's done again.
Fun Fact: the prefix epi- means "above, over, on, nearby, upon." Still not exactly sure what that + "curious" means in relation to cooking :)
I will definitely check this out. Thanks for the tip!
ReplyDeleteOooh interesting! I will check this one out!
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