NYT Cooking: Recipes & Tips

Carl Blunt

1 year ago

App would be great, but doesn't reliably categorize recipes you bookmark, which is one of the primary use cases for the app. I hate looking through 40 recipes categorized as "dinner" only to realize that the one I'm looking for is one of another 10-15 tucked away somewhere in a "bookmarked" folder of every recipe I've saved. There's a useless "folder" feature that would allow me to create a second folder of "dinner" recipes for those that aren't automatically categorized, but not the extant one.

Rivers Wright

3 years ago

Good recipes, easy to use, and you can save all the recipes you like so you can always go back to them. I just wish there was a way to edit/add thoughts and ideas to the saved recipes, so that I can customize any of them to my liking, and it would only be saved to my page so only I would see the edit, but other than that its awesome !

Julie Revak

10 months ago

I Hate hate the NYT Cooking app. Much prefer accessing my subscription via duckduckgo where there are no ads at all and no tracking! Much easier to use, love being able to "like" other users' feedback which you weirdly can't do with app. Also, I noticed you can't view all the user comments (you can only view some of them) unlike going through the browser where you can see all of them which is really weird. The recipes display better too in the browser rather than app.

A Google user

4 years ago

A very thorough collection of NYT recipes amassed over decades. I've been able to find recipes for virtually any food I've wanted to experiment with, including dishes from a wide range of cultures and regions. NYT Cooking is my "go to" when I want an extensively vetted recipe, including shared notes from others who've made/attempted the dish, and 1-5 star ratings--for which I can't recall anything less than a 4. Yes, it's accessible only by subscription, but it is *well* worth the price!

Daniel Levine

11 months ago

When it works, it's fine.... But lately, more often I am getting the message that I'm "offline" and not able to load recipes even though I am online (WiFi/LTE). I don't necessarily have a problem with ads showing (a recent development) so long as the app WORKS - it doesn't consistently, which is frustrating considering the cost of this subscription. Debating whether it's actually worth the expense given how often it doesn't work, however. And especially irritating that ads load but recipes don't

Lucas Lezzi

1 year ago

Disappointed that I am paying for a service and now I'm presented with giant advertisements. Not only are there now ads, but they take up 2/3 of the screen when present. This might be acceptable if there were actual features added to the app, but currently there is nothing new and the website gives you more functionality. No What To Cook , no Ingredient search, no Occasions. If you're going to add advertisements to an app that you already have to pay for, you atleast add features.

Melanie F.

6 months ago

High hopes for the updated version, but again I am disappointed. Despite the recipes being good, the app is not the most functional. Notifications will tease you with a 25 minute recipe so good that you want to lick the bowl! And then when you click on it, it takes you to the last recipe you looked at, a recipe that takes 3 hours or the home page. It's irritating and infuriating. Also, there is no landscape mode or measurement conversions.

Alicia Hodge

2 months ago

This review is solo about the app, not the wonderful recipes by NYT. For how expensive this app is, it's very cumbersome and not at all user friendly. You can search for specific recipes or ingredients, but nowhere can you add ingredient exclusions. Even other very basic, free recipe apps allows you to filter out recipes with ingredients you may be allergic to or not like. Minimizing the app taked you to the home page everytime.

Max DeCurtins

4 months ago

Thankfully it seems that the damage from the terrible update about a month or two ago has been undone. HOWEVER, I notice that the app hides the Android system tray at the top, making my clock, notifications, wifi and battery indicators all disappear. Why do you do this?! The system tray should *never* be hidden except by explicit opt-in setting by the user. Also, how is it that there's *still* no way to gift recipes from the app, only the website?? Come on, NYT.

Robert Schaefer

5 months ago

This used to be a great app, one that I was happy to subscribe to. It was one of the few apps you could pay for that wasn't full of junk and ads. They newest update changed all that, there are now ads in the recipes and the app somehow just got worse. Now the screen doesn't stay on and the navigation is messed up, and always brings you back to the home screen. I usually don't like writing poor reviews but whatever they did to the app seems like a money grab at the expense of ruining a good app.

ONY Architecture

4 months ago

A good app, though here's a recommendation. When browsing your "Recipe Box", which could contain dozens of recipes, once you select one of your saved recipes to look at and then want to go back to the list of recipes, it brings you all the way back to the top of the list, instead of where you were before clicking said recipe. It's very frustrating because you have to scroll all the way down to where you left off. Please remedy this.

Matthew Miller

5 months ago

I'm tired of this app. I'm a paying subscriber, but reconsidering. This has been enshittified. Any time you minimize the app, it pulls you out of the recipe (or list, or whatever) you were viewing and drives you back to the start page, presumably to increase add views there. If I'm cooking, which is primarily when I use this, and have to do anything else on the phone, it's just unbearable.

M S.

2 months ago

I'm enjoying the app but I wish it were easier to move recipes between folders. I have To Be Tried, Tried & Liked, and Don't Make Again folders, so it would be nice to reclassify without having to remove from Recipe Box and then save again. Love the Add to Grocery List option and that I can remove ingredients I already have.

Jamie Williams

2 months ago

I like some things about this app, but there are a lot of annoying things about it. In the grocery list, I can only remove a certain number of items from my list before it crashes. I also find it really annoying I can't add other items to my grocery list unless it comes from a NYT recipe, so I often have to use two separate lists. When searching recipes, if I select one then try to go back to my list, it'll put me back to the top of the list, not where I left off. Lot's of room for improvement.

Chelsea Cohen

2 weeks ago

Fantastic recipes, but I don't know why the app doesn't have a cook mode to keep the screen from going dark while working? Additionally, when clicking into and back from a recipe, it's annoying that the app scrolls to the top instead of holding your place. Small fixes would improve an already great app

Matt Caston

3 weeks ago

Decent-ish app, however after charging a premium to use it, they have recently introduced adds to the app which is incredibly annoying and shows just how much NYT is trying to squeeze out of their subscribers. What's next, a 'double premium' to avoid adds too? Mind you, this was once and for a very long time a free service of NYT. Now, not even paywalls can protect you from the encroaching capitalist hell.

Laura Chromy

4 weeks ago

This app is pretty good. It's easy to create categories and save recipes to them. I wish I could more easily refine searches like I can on the website. The most frustrating thing is navigating search results. If I look at a recipe, the app takes me back to the top of the search results and I have to scroll diwn and down again everything looking for where I was in the sometimes very long list. Also, I frequently get annoying loading screens when scrolling the recipes.