june 22/ In the kitchen with IPhones

I am still learning my IPhone.  Especially I am trying to type with two hands; I am getting better.  It helped when my sister told me to hit the left side of the key.  

 

Several months ago I read an article, I think in the NY Times, about how IPhones or that type of fancy phone were really handy to a cook.  I put that in my bank of why I wanted a tricked up cell phone. 

 

Now as I am learning to use it, it is a very handy tool for the kitchen.  It has an alarm, and a stop watch.  You can buy a program for conversions of nearly everything.  I am now cooking with a scale and generally measure in grams, so a calculator is very helpful.  You can add a shopping list.  This might seem minor but many times I type out my list at home and then forget the list.  And if you play with the list a little, you can truly organize the list by aisles. I think there is even a way to send half of the list over to your husband’s phone for him to shop.   If you are good at getting the Internet from the phone,  you can get recipes while at the grocery store. 

 

I am noticing a new trend in cooking.  We have thousands of recipes at our disposal.  But we do not think of cooking as the people in the past have cooked.  They knew how to increase a recipe.  They knew ratios.  And they bought what was cheap or something they liked and then figured out what to do with the ingredient in the kitchen when they got home.  All Recipes.com  answers a lot of questions. You see a lamb roast, but you do not know what else you need.  So you plug in the amount of time the dish can take and if it is an entrée or a side dish.  Push the button and up comes a list of suggestions for you.  You can photograph food and preparations along the way. 

 

 A lot of this can be done on a computer.   And believe me I do use the computer. But I am seeing possibilities both in my kitchen and away from home.   There is one real problem to both of these devices as a kitchen tool, the computer and the cell phone, and that is my dirty hands. 

Comments

[Margaret]

I like the grocery shopping app idea - I think I will need to adopt it. Also, mom, there is an app for locating your car (i.e., you park on a street but not sure what block). Not sure if it works in parking garages too, but if so, that will be well worth the $$$!