#MACGOURMET FOR IPAD MAC#
There’s a command to make your mac talk to you! When you get into Cook Mode, you get prompted with a window asking to calibrate the Text to Speech settings on System Preferences- it even opens up the settings for you. Here, you can choose to not only see the recipe but hear it. This last one, gives you a similar option like MacGourmet with the Chef’s View. Underneath the recipe you’ll find five buttons: Edit, Print, Mail, Blog and Cook Mode. Then it’s followed by the other two panes, the Recipe List and Recipe itself. The first one is the Source Pane, which lets you see the Recipe Library,, Recent Imports, Recently Cooked smart collections and Grocery Lists).
The interface also comes with a three pane view. Everything transferred correctly, even the keywords so you’re all set. This is very easy, you can go to File>Import>MacGourmet Database.
To start, I imported the three recipes I had already on MacGourmet. This application is easy to the eye also. All around I think it’s a good pair to have to sort out your recipes. Each plugin can be purchased for $11.95 or you can buy a bundle of the three for $29.95. MacGourmet is $24.95 and it’s iPhone app is $4.99. You can purchase additional plug-ins to enhance your experience: Mealplan (to add meal planning and menus), Cookbook (PDF cookbook creation) and MacGourmet:Nutrition (nutritional analysis). This comes handy when going grocery shopping and having your recipe book in handy when away from the mac. You sync your iPhone and your mac over a Wi-Fi Network, like most apps do (Things, Documents ToGo or Air Sharing).
MacGourmet also offers an iPhone app: you have Recipes, Wines, Notes, Shopping and a Sync Button. What I’ve done so far is scale it up or down, and when I’m done, change it back to it’s original servings… But saving me that step would be nice. I wish the scaling of the recipe was more handy, or with a shortcut, and not let me change the original recipe, just display it on the “Chef’s view” window. You can find it while editing the recipe, under ingredients (change recipe to x servings- make sure you click the Scale button and Save afterwards to see the scaled recipe). One feature that I really find useful is the scaling feature. I just turn the 19″ screen to face the kitchen and I can place on the second screen the Chef view: Big font, no pictures. I have a MacBook Pro, and being able to hook it up to an external screen has been helpful: Now more with the Chef View. You can also browse the entire library on a small inspector window, like the Media inspector that you can find in Mail.app or any of the iWork apps. This application, is like iTunes for your recipes. MacGourmet can also help you publish with ease your recipes to a site or to an eBook- however, it supports only Blogger, Blojsom, MovableType and TypePad, which is a big drawback if you want to publish directly to a WordPress based blog.
#MACGOURMET FOR IPAD DOWNLOAD#
If you don’t like any of the pre installed viewing styles, you can download more online. The second pane, lists the recipes, and the third one is the recipe itself. Interface is nice and clean, comes with with three panes: the first one, holds the Recipes, Notes, Shopping Lists, and Wine Notes (the only application that, along with clippings- this last one contains recipe text grabbed using Text Clipping), Featured (recipes from MacGourmet online and Kitchenware/Cookbooks from Amazon), Find results and all of the Collection and Smart Collection to sort your recipes. With this application, I had to manually enter the recipe ingredients, but just did a copy/paste with the directions. The first application that we tried out was MacGourmet. *see note at the end of the article (Update Feb, 2011) In this post, we’ll compare the use of the three applications with the same 3 recipes. So, looking around online I found three applications: MacGourmet, SousChef and Yum*. My recipe collection is growing so fast, I find that having Pages documents and folders is not enough, specially when scaling recipes- down for an every day dinner or scaling them up when we have more people over. I love to take pictures, but I’m also a foodie.
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