As much as I enjoy cooking, I don’t get a chance to do it as much as I’d like. I’m not sure what technology can do to free up my busy schedule, but it can potentially help out with culinary mechanics. Or, if it can if it’s Acacia Tree Software’s new app, SousChef.
Think of SousChef as a Delicious Library that’s extra delicious, because it’s all about food. Not only does it store a list of recipes searchable by name, category, and ingredient, but you can organize and rate them as well. Plus, being a spiffy computer program, it can easily help you double, triple, or quadruple recipes and store a list of ingredients you always have on hand, so it knows which recipes you can make. Best of all, there’s a fullscreen “cooking” mode, which displays the ingredients and instructions in high-contrast large print, making it easy to follow the instructions from across the room. It’ll even let you control scrolling via a remote or your Mac’s speech recognition capability.
But the real joy of food is sharing it, and SousChef certainly doesn’t fall down in that regard either. Besides pulling recipes from other SousChef users, you can easily mail, print, or blog about your recipes. And SousChef will even let you import recipes that you find on the web, intelligently integrating them into your library. Given all that it can do, the price of $30 seems pretty reasonable, no?
