Ratio
By Ruhlman Enterprises, Inc.
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Description
Free yourself from recipes! The best-selling cookbook, Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking, by me, Michael Ruhlman, is now an iPhone app that will help you calculate amounts of ingredients in all the fundamental culinary preparations. When you know a ratio, you don’t know a recipe, you know 1,000. And this application does all the calculating for you.
“Cooking, like so many other creative endeavors is defined by relationships. For instance, knowing exactly how much flour to put into a loaf of bread isn’t nearly as useful as understanding the relationship between the flour and the water, or fat, or salt. That relationship is defined by a ‘ratio’ and having a ratio in hand is like having a secret decoder ring that frees you from the tyranny of recipes. ….Michael Ruhlman, in handing us mortals a power better suited to the gods, has changed the balance of kitchen power forever.” —Good Eats host Alton Brown
What You Get:
--THE 32 CRITICAL RATIOS that form the backbone of the culinary arts, with instructions: doughs, batters, meat preparations, custards, sauces (pasta dough and pizza dough, sponge cake and pancakes, fritters and crepes, stocks and sauces, crème caramel and chocolate sauce.
--A CALCULATOR that figures out how much of each ingredient you need, no matter how many or how few people you want to serve.
--An OUNCES-TO-GRAMS CONVERTER (ratios work no matter what unit you choose to use!).
--DELICIOUS VARIATIONS FOR RECIPES on all the ratios, ideas for the creation of new dishes according to your tastes.
--An easy way to STORE YOUR OWN RECIPES and notes that you’ve created from the basic ratios.
--Quick fun ways to SHARE what your cooking with your fellow cooks, on Facebook and on Twitter.
--Ratios is also a great way to understand and TWEAK YOUR OWN RECIPES, to help you make your pancakes even fluffier, your pizza dough crisper, your crème brulee richer.
What's New in Version 1.0.4
Improved compatibility with iOS 4.0, iPad and iPod Touch 3.1.3
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Customer Reviews
Almost awesome cooking app!!
Love the concept and the pie chart presentation of ingredient proportions. Totally suits my style of cooking, which is to take a recipe and improvise from it. This allows for that so easily: to subsitute one fat for another fat, etc. Unfortunately, I'm used to measuring ingredients by standard American measuring cups, and seeing ".2 cups" of this to ".8 cups" of that isn't very useful. I know weighing ingredients, especially for baking, is better... but I'm not quite there yet. In any case, I'd say better to eliminate the "cups" unit option than to have decimal equivalents that don't translate quickly to standard fractional measuring cup sizes.
Needing some improvements. PLEASE!
This app has so much potential to be great. First off, tell me the number of eggs I need, not the measurement of egg. Second, I want to put in how many servings of something I want for an estimate of how much I should make. Third, please change the cups measurements so that it isn't in decimals. Change these and you are well on your way to a five star app. Until then, not worth the $4.99 because it's just too difficult to use.
Good companion for the book.
Yes, you can write these ratios on notecards, which is what I did prior to getting this ap. But there are a lot of things the IPhone does that can be done on a normal phone, a tab of paper and your laptop, right?
Don't expect miracles from this ap, but if you have read the book, it's nice to have the ratios and basic techniques in one neat spot with a place to jot down recipes you've tried. Without the book, i think this ap would be confusing and uninspiring.
As an ending thought, Everyone deserves a scale. My oxo one cost me 25 bucks and I use it daily. It makes baking so much quicker and cleaner-no more dip and level business, I get irritated baking with measurements now!
- $4.99
- Category: Lifestyle
- Updated: Sep 17, 2010
- Version: 1.0.4
- Size: 0.7 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: ruhlman enterprises inc
- © 2009 Ruhlman Enterprises, Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later
