Three Cool iPhone Apps for Cooks

Your new phone is useful, but it doesn’t just play games, make calls, send texts, and tell you what the weather is like in Cupertino. Some creative developers have built apps that make cooking easier, quicker, and more fun. Here are our favorites.

• HarvestMark Food Traceability – FREE

  This cool and easy-to-use app lets you check your produce to find out important information about its freshness, origins, and any recalls or warnings associated with it. Just scan or enter the HarvestMark barcode on your produce and you’ll get more info than you ever wanted to know. LINK

• Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List – FREE

  Close the cookbook. With Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List, you can browse more than 25,000 professionally tested recipes from top food magazines, popular cookbooks, top chefs, restaurants, and more in the grocery store or the kitchen, right from your iPhone. LINK

• Kitchen Calculator PRO

  Scale up a recipe for your next big dinner party. Or convert grams of sugar to cups. Kitchen Calculator PRO does all the ingredient math you need to keep your measurements accurate and your food tasting great.LINK

However you cook, a smartphone can help. Touch screens aren’t effected by a little flower or grease; can do calculations quickly; and are great companions in the kitchen. Let us know if you’ve found other cooking apps!