We all know the drill when it comes to cooking our own meals. There are long hours of procrastination, slacking around looking for how-to-make-this videos and finally dropping the idea because you don’t have everything you need. Count the number of times you taught yourself to do something while watching a video on YouTube? How many times did you get distracted by the new teaser of Game of Thrones Season 7? The New York Times Cooking app is one of a kind where you can browse, search and save more than 17,000 recipes and videos from The New York Times, with beautiful illustrative images, and easy-to-follow instructions.

The best part about this personalized app is the categorized sections by diet, cuisine type, preparation method, meal type and more. Save your NYT recipes as well as recipes from other websites all in a recipe box that you can have access to anytime and anywhere. Use NYT Cooking application to discover recipes for pretty much any event. Stamp recipes you’ve cooked, rate recipes, and leave notes for kindred cooks or only for yourself for when you cook them. Save recipes anyplace in the app, including desktop, iPhone, and iPad. The application even interfaces with Evernote to keep recipes in one place. Recipes saved in NYT Cooking will synchronize with Evernote and the other way round. Not certain how to mince garlic or the ideal approach to holding a blade? Watch fast (fewer than 20 seconds) videos on techniques on how to handle different essentials in the kitchen.

The recipes database, different outlets recipes, technique recordings, and personalized search engine makes NYT Cooking an extremely helpful application for every single home cook. It is easy to utilize and is daily refreshed with new recipes. NYT Cooking will have something for pretty much everybody. Users must register at New York Times website to utilize the recipes box, however here’s the good news; users can see first 10 recipes for free each month. By analyzing search history of the user, it gives you recipes suggestions too. This app can be called the Netflix of recipes.

The app is free for iPhone users and a web version is available for android users. Personally, cooking in college dorm rooms was something I didn’t enjoy. Those easy-to-make packed food items became a nightmare after a few days and then I needed something real. The personalized, easy, and healthy college meals helped me cut through the junk and actually cook food that tastes good.