REASONS WHY COOKPAD APP IS A MUST ON YOUR PHONE

Juliet
Cookpad Kenya
Published in
5 min readSep 19, 2017

The COOKPAD app is much more than an app for viewing recipes. It’s an online platform where you can share your homemade recipes and search recipes from anywhere in the world.. The COOKPAD app is user friendly and makes searching and sharing recipes extremely simple The COOKPAD app is available for Android and iPhone users

And here are the 10 reasons why cookpad app is a must on your phone and how you can learn to make delicious recipes, surprise your family or friends and also thank the authors of the your own recipes that slip in your kitchen !!

  1. Search thousands of recipes: One of the most useful things you can do with your Cookpad app is to check any type of recipe from the more than 1,37,000 available for free from around the world. To search for a recipe you just have to put the name of the dish, ingredient or type of food in the search box and enter and automatically you will get all the options of that recipe in its different versions. There is a bell icon on your profile where you will see all the notifications that arrive to you.

2. Easily publish & share recipes: Down to the left, in the green icon you can open the template to write your recipe. It is very easy to write recipes and publish them in Cookpad. Once published, you can easily share your recipes with your friendson social media & other platforms.

3. Follow your favorite authors to see all their latest news. The best way to personalize your wall, that is, that you get on your home page recipes of your taste, is to follow those authors whose way of cooking is the one that most resembles yours or your kitchen. So, every time any of your friends publish a new recipe, it will come out as a recipe to inspire you and give you new ideas to put into practice. To follow any author, you can do it through your recipes, just below the introduction of the recipe and next to its name you will see a button that says “follow” once you press it will change from light gray to dark gray and “ Following, “indicating that you are already your follower.

4. Do “like”. If you find a recipe that you liked especially, do not miss the opportunity to share your love to your author. To do this, in each of the recipes you will see a little heart at the bottom of the screen that you can press and change to red color, that will indicate that you have left a new “like” in that recipe! Surely that will encourage the author to follow Sharing your kitchen!

5. Follow the trend: You will see all the recipes that are cooked and receive CookSnaps in the Trending section. It’s a way to show the authors that you made their recipe and that you liked it! If they make one of your recipes and send you a photo, it will also come out in this section.

6. Local: Find whats cooking & getting shared in your own city in the nearby section.

7. Save all the recipes you like by clicking on the Bookmark icon (in the lower center of the page) and you will always have them by hand. For this you only have to press on the marker that you will see at the bottom of your screen right next to the “like”. Once you have pressed it will change its color to orange and that will mean that it has already been stored in the “saved recipes” of your profile, where you can enter whenever you want to search.

8. Send photo answer in recipes that you cook. If you finally dare to cook that recipe that you liked so much and that you had saved, now you only have to send to the author the picture of how your dish was left and above all tell you what you thought there is nothing that delights more than See how others enjoy with your kitchen! And what better way to get it than through a photo response, don’t you think? To send the photo you only have to go to the end of the recipe, after the last step and there you will see the option to upload your photo, selecting it directly from your photo gallery and leave your comment telling you what you thought!

9. Check how much love your profile got: In the Stats section (bar icon) you can see your most popular recipes, number of visits, likes, how many people have saved or printed your recipes and how many CookSnaps you have received. Also retrieve all the food photos you had on your phone by synchronizing them.

10. Use private chat of Cookpad to interact with the community. Create groups and talk in private with any author you follow. You can also invite family and friends to help you in your day to day cooking. You can share photos, recipes or ask questions about recipes to their authors.

Do not wait any longer, start today with what you have to have fun in kitchen!!

The COOKPAD app is available for Android and iPhone users.

Sign up, log on, and get cooking! https://cookpad.com/ke

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