Kitchen

Paprika Recipe Manager

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Organize your recipes, make meal plans, and create grocery lists

Paprika Recipe Manager User’s Experience: I do a lot of cooking and baking, getting a lot of my recipes online. I used to clutter up my browser with bookmarks for recipes, then spend a lot of time figuring out whether I bookmarked them on my phone, iPad, or computer.

For the past year, I’ve been using Paprika, which is an application you can install on a variety of devices. You simply copy the URL from the recipe website, then open the application. Paprika loads the URL and you click to create a recipe. If you have the app installed on multiple devices, your recipes will appear on all of them. The recipes appear with two tabs, ingredients and directions. The interface is simple and easy to use. You can categorize your recipes any way you like, or use the search function if you’d rather not categorize.

One of my favorite features is the ability to increase or decrease the recipe yield by 1/2 increments. Other benefits include the ability to make a meal plan by adding a recipe to a calendar and the ability to make a grocery list by checking off which ingredients from a recipe are needed. You can mark recipes as favorites and set timers too.

I enjoy reading cooking blogs, but one of the things I really like about Paprika is that it distills recipes from blogs down to the ingredients and directions, getting rid of all extraneous paragraphs. The only downside to this app is that it is not able to load recipes from certain sites. However, you can manually load the recipe by cutting and pasting.

At $19.99, it’s expensive for an app, but I view it more along the lines of a custom-made cookbook, and I have no problem paying that much for a good cookbook.

-- Abbie Stillie 09/15/16

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