Foodari: Recipes With Full Function

This is the fourth review in our series on recipe applications. To read a primer on the topic with the common features of a recipe application, please see: Making It On Your Own; Web 2.0 Recipe Applications.

Looking at Foodari, you may think it to be a bit cluttered - even its tabs seem cramped - but Foodari’s cramped because it’s trying to do it all. Recipes, books, videos, forums, and food related feeds (blogs and stories) from the web.

From the viewpoint of recipes, Foodari is simple enough; enter in your search terms and reap the benefits. Yet Foodari has added a way to search for recipes by ingredients or title, making their search good for users with a select menu (if you’ve got salmon defrosting, for example), or users looking for something completely different. Recipes can also be found with tags, and searches can be refined with serving size, nutrition information (saturated fat or energy level), and cooking time.

Once you’ve found recipes, you can save them to a list, share them (email, message inside Foodari, or print), or convert measurements to metric (or Imperial). Cooking times and dietary information (if provided by submitter) are displayed, along with suggestions for other recipes you may enjoy.

Recipes will also show comments and who has recently saved the recipe to their list, which is an interesting way to follow others to new recipes. Forums and the People tabs also allow users to connect with one another for tips and recipes, and users can follow one another with Friendship Requests.

The weakness of Foodari, on top of visually busy pages, is that it can be slow to refresh. Searches, and saving a recipe to your wishlist can take longer than most sites and slow your progress, yet Foodari offers a wide range of functions, including video tutorials and tie-ins to cookbooks (Amazon).

When thinking of what you might want in a recipe application, you are likely to want more than what a cookbook offers; recipes, descriptions, and suggestions, all with the speed of a search engine. Recipe applications provide these, and as we see with this week’s applications, a bit more.

To find this or other recipe applications, there is the Listio search: recipes+discover.

Previously in this series: Open Source Food: A Clean and Easy Recipe Application
Next in this series: Comparing Recipe Applications: Foodari, Open Source Food, Supercook, and Reci-P

Application: Foodari
Listio Profile: http://www.listio.com/web20/app/Foodari/
Website: http://www.foodari.com

Foodari aims to provide the members of the foodari community with insightful, interesting food and recipe ideas, debate and conversation. Start storing all of your recipes from anywhere to one place, and share recipes and ideas with other foodies across the world.... Learn more

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