Apple News Food Made Love Cooking Again (and Turned Me Into a Subscriber)

Apple News Food: Start my cooking journey

Apple News' new food section (iOS 18.4 and above) conquered me with its simplicity and elegant design and ease of use. It brings together recipes from many well-known food publishers and presents each step of cooking steps clearly.

Saying goodbye to the ad-filled recipe website, Apple News Food provides clear step-by-step instructions, ingredient lists, pictures, videos, etc., and more importantly, it cleverly uses interactive functions to assist in cooking, making the whole process smooth.

The sophisticated design of this food section made me activate the month-long free trial of Apple News without hesitation, which was unimaginable before.

I live alone and the financial situation this year is particularly difficult. During and after the pandemic, my income did not increase at all, and severe inflation in Europe (my place of residence) severely weakened my purchasing power. I had to make a change and started cooking as much as I could at home to save on expensive restaurants and late night takeaways.

Click the "Follow" or "Today" tab in the news app to access the food section. You must be an Apple News subscription user and run iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 or higher on your iPhone and iPad. Otherwise, you won't be able to see it.

The concise interface of Apple News Food attracted me. I hate online advertising like everyone else, and there are no ads in Apple News Food. Like news reports, Apple News Food collects content from some of the largest food publishers.

With over 70,000 (and growing) recipes in one place and a clean interface, this is a major reason for embracing Apple News Food for foodies and culinary enthusiasts!

Exquisite recipe presentation

It is an understatement to say that Apple News Food’s recipes are pleasing to the eye. It avoids the hassle of jumping between different websites, and the typography, navigation and information presentation of each recipe is consistent.

Each recipe contains key details such as clear photos at the top, a summary of dishes, a complete list of ingredients, and clear step-by-step instructions. When you’re hungry and just want to make a quick meal, the last thing you need to worry about is browsing those messy recipe sites, and Apple News Food solves that.

What I particularly appreciate is that recipes don’t come with a lengthy backstory like many recipe sites. To be honest, I don't need to read stories about you growing up in Texas and anecdotes about you related to food before seeing the actual recipe!

Built-in timer and interactive ingredients

In cooking mode, step-by-step instructions are displayed in large fonts, just like lyrics on Apple Music are synchronized. Why didn't anyone think of this before? I never like to randomly estimate the amount of a certain topping during cooking, which is why I am a big fan of Apple News Food – it eliminates guesses by letting me touch the topping references in the recipe so I can see immediately how many toppings are required for the current step.

In cooking, time is everything. If a step takes a specific time, your iPhone comes in handy: Just touch the time reference in the cooking instructions and Apple News Food will easily launch a timer on your iPhone.

These subtle and pleasant features make Apple News Food worth considering, at least in my opinion. The power of these ecosystems always reminds me of why I like Apple.

Search, filter and offline recipes

Apple News Food is so rich that it should be overwhelming, but its well-organized approach avoids this. Recipes are neatly grouped into categories such as breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, vegetarian, vegan, meals completed within 30 minutes.

If you don't want to browse the recipe catalog, use built-in search and powerful filters to find nostalgic dishes that bring you back to the good times of your childhood.

I especially like the filtering options support various parameters. For example, I can easily filter recipe catalogs by standard such as dish type and cooking time. Filters are particularly powerful because they can combine multiple filters to find what you exactly want. An example includes filtering the catalogue of dinner dishes completed in 30 minutes.

Like news reports, you can save your favorite recipes for later viewing and access them offline without an internet connection. My bookmark recipes are ready to be available on my iPad if iCloud sync is turned on for the news app.

Cooking stories and kitchen tips

Adjacent content is another reason to use Apple News Food. As a creative who loves cooking, I follow many food influencers and watch cooking videos for fun. In addition to recipes, Apple News Food also offers coverage on restaurants and features, ranging from healthy eating to kitchen essentials to cooking tips and more. While most of the content is limited to Apple News subscribers, Apple’s announcement claims that “Selected Stories and Recipes” is available to anyone without an Apple News subscription.

It's not just some stuffing; it's obvious that these stories are edited by Apple News rather than carefully curated by computer algorithms. Articles come from top food publishers including Allrecipes, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, Good Food and Serious Eats.

Once launched, Apple News Food offers more than you need and new recipes are added every day. The platform will recommend similar dishes to help discover. A beautiful interface that is easy to use (especially recipe pages and cooking instructions) is years ahead of those poorly designed recipe sites that are full of ads and track your online activity.

When browsing a recipe website, adding "cooked.wiki/" before the recipe URL can remove all ads and other distracting content, provided that the site owner does not require it to be excluded from Cooked. You can also use recipe planning apps like Crouton and Recipe Keeper to remove all the unimportant content from recipe articles.

Cooking at home is one of the best decisions any family or individual makes to save money, especially in the current economic environment. If you have a little interest in cooking but don't know where to start, I sincerely recommend checking out Apple News Food. It does so well that it should be separated into a standalone recipe app, just like NYT Cooking.

Finally, if you can't access the Food Section because Apple News is not available in your country, change the locale on your device to American English and restart.

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