I started using this app when I became the primary cook in the house and realized I didn’t know how to cook many things that were suitable for a whole family rather than just a young bachelor. I find the recipe variety to be great with a good mix of simple and complicated, and a variety of cuisines to choose from. The moderated community notes are a great addition to most recipes that can help you tweak a recipe in a direction more to your taste or warn you of common pitfalls that may lie ahead. My only gripe with this app (and it doesn’t keep this from being a five star review) is that the interface and what you can or can’t do with it sometimes leaves some things to be desired. The inability to navigate to a recipe directly from the grocery list is baffling to me. That said, improvements are continually made and it’s clear they’re made with an eye to satisfying the needs of cooks actually in the kitchen. I would be genuinely surprised if someone told me they tried this app and were disappointed enough not to keep using it.

I love you. I am a mediocre cook, trapped in a pandemic, with my daughter in law ( and son) and their two new babies! This is lovely, but did I mention my daughter in law is an excellent cook and baker? Caroline DOESNT make cakes as good as Patricia! She’s amazing! Her parents were Magalise ( from Madagascar) ( I hope that’s the people, not the language!) and she slept on a shelf in the bakery as a baby. Obviously, she picked some things up! BUT she also makes delicious dinners and lunches and whatever else you want. With NYT cooking, I can sometimes fake it and produce something delicious! Like Ropa Vieja! Wonderful and impressive! Also, before we came to New Orleans to wrangle babies, I used NYT cooking to trick my used to be youngest grandchild, Jase, into putting down his phone. He was buried in it, 24/7. At 17, it was difficult to converse with him......okay, impossible. Then one day, I thought! What requires you to put down your phone! Cooking!! And I lured him into the kitchen with flank steak, peppers and onions. It was glorious! And has continued, and inspired cooking urges in Jase, even when I’m in Louisiana and he’s in Oklahoma! Thank you! I love you.

I have used and enjoyed this app for a number of years. The recipes are usually quite good and the ability to save ones you would like to try is wonderful. This is one of my first resources when looking for a specific recipe for something like mushroom soup or chocolate soufflé. However; I have recently become very frustrated with one newly changed facet of the app. Previously, I was able to read the food articles as well as the recipes as part of my paid subscription. For example, the app will list a recipe and in its blurb would be referenced and linked a cooking column from which the recipe originated. I enjoyed reading the cooking articles and seeing the other related recipes. Now, however, the app is asking me to pay for an additional subscription to the newspaper to read these articles. This seems quite silly to me as I’m already paying for the cooking content and was previously able to read all of the cooking content for my annual subscription fee. I’m not trying to read yesterday’s front page headlines, I’m trying to read a 5 year old cooking column. This limitation has very much decreased my enjoyment and usage of the app. I am now considering dropping my cooking subscription since I can no longer access all of the ‘cooking’ content.