- Quick specs
- Price: Free; iTunes account required
- Operating system: iPhone OS 2.x/3.x
- Date added: July 27, 2009
- Total Downloads: 1,030
- Downloads last week: 5
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Paul Hughes on September 03, 2009
Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner is a free, ad-supported app that gives you fun and easy access to the user-generated recipes on this popular cooking Web site. The Dinner Spinner gives you a slot-machine-style interface that helps you search for--or just stumble upon--new meal possibilities: you can rotate horizontal spinners to choose a recipe by meal type, ingredient, and cook time, or you can shake your iPhone or iPod Touch (or press a touch-screen button) to randomize any or all of the criteria.
This interface gimmick works surprisingly well, especially with some fixed criteria (like, say, you know you have lamb and less than 45 minutes), and you can flip through all the matching recipes, with photos, star ratings, and short summaries. If you don't want to use the spinner, you can even just browse featured recipes. You click on a recipe for more information, including a full ingredient list, cooking instructions, nutritional information, and user reviews from AllRecipes.com, and you can save any recipe to your favorites for later viewing.
The Dinner Spinner isn't perfect--for example, the categories rely on the occasionally spotty accuracy of user-generated data--but this app has shown steady improvement since its arrival in the App Store. You can now perform searches (with optional filters such as "Vegetarian" and "Low Sodium"), and you can look through all matches for a given meal and ingredient type for any cooking time. Other similar paid apps may have deeper functionality, but the Dinner Spinner gives you a lot of features (and fun) for free.
Publisher's description
From All Recipes :Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner is a fun and useful recipe app from the worlds #1 food site, delivering thousands of our members favorite quick and easy recipes to your iPhone/iPod Touch.
Its FREE! Thousands of top-rated recipes - each featuring photos and reviews from our community of millions of home cooks right in the palm of your hand! Plus, time-saving recipe tips from Allrecipes.com Members and their ideas for recipe variations that help to eliminate any guesswork!
Its EASY & FUN! Dinner Spinner lets you be a picky eater or come hungry for ideas:
Choose by Dish Type: Appetizers, drinks, main dishes, side dishes, dessertsthe list goes on!
Choose by Ingredient: Search for what you have on hand or what you are looking to buy.
Choose by Desired Ready In Time: from recipes in under 20 minutes to all-day slow cooker dishes.
Shake for Ideas: Not sure what youre looking for? Just shake the phone or hit spin to get a random selection of dishes and ingredients.
SHARE RECIPES! Email recipes to friendsor save it to your Favorites if it's a keeper! Go aheadgive it a spin!
Visit us at www.allrecipes.com for more great recipes and helpful tools.
CNET Editor's Note: The "Download Now" link directs you to the iTunes App Store, where you must continue the download process. You must have iTunes installed in order to open the link, and you must have an active iTunes account to download the application. This download may not be available in some countries.
What's new in this version:
-Fixed missing Favorites issue affecting some users-Fixed image loading problem
-More recipes!
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