I'm as sober as a judge, and furthermore I'm a magistrate.
Just here to say well done for the splendid Henry Rawlinson quote.
Dinner Spinner is a classic example of the slick and inventive apps that have made the iOS App Store what it is today. It’s also a good example of the way those same apps are now migrating to Android. The idea is blindingly simple and perfect for anyone who - like me - thinks that cooking involves a telephone and knowing the …
"The icing on the cake is the app's iOS heritage, which shines through at every turn - it’s simply a pleasure to look at and play with even if nothing ends up in’t pot."
In my experience, "iOS heritage" often means "we couldn't be bothered to work out how to create menus in Android apps, so we put hundreds of unnecessary buttons on screen instead".
You could just go to allrecipes.com in your browser and search for 'chocolate' in 'soups, stews and chillis' and lo, up comes the recipe for Big Game Chilli - why faff around with an app? Or if you just google for recipes for soup with chocolate you get some wonderful-sounding suggestions. Anyone for chocolate soup with caramelized bananas?
Mmmmh....chocolate.....
It's there, has been for a decade and a half
It works, has done for a decade and a half.
If you need to eyeball your phone in order to purchase ingredients at your local mega-mart, I respectfully suggest you should probably stay out of your kitchen ... it is full of sharp objects, hot objects, and freezing objects ... maybe even containing salmonella and other ugly bugs!
It needs these weird permissions.....
System tools
retrieve running applications
Allows application to retrieve information about currently and recently running tasks. May allow malicious applications to discover private information about other applications.
prevent device from sleeping
Allows an application to prevent the device from going to sleep.
Why ?
...but prevent device sleeping is handy to stop the screen going to low power mode when you've plonked the device down and you're working from the displayed instructions. Otherwise you'd have to keep jabbing the screen with a (possibly dirty) finger to keep the lock from coming on.
"prevent device from sleeping
Allows an application to prevent the device from going to sleep.
Why ?"
Purely on this point, I'd say it's because its pissing annoying when you are trying to read something and the screen keeps going black. You'll find that all the good e-reader apps do this as well.
Can't comment on the rest though.
I installed it and decided to click on Bread. Rather than show me recipes for bread, I had to select Grain as a second option. Finally selected Any for cooking time and got a wadge of recipes. OKish, but clumsy.
So, rather than select bread and get a list or next level of filters, I have to tell it that I want bread recipes made with grain and not beef or pork or legumes (FFS!), although steak sandwich with onions on ciabatta is the dogs and a good bacon sarnie is, well simply, orgasmic.
The Spinny interface doofer, whilst having its merits, doesn´t work for all occassions and makes the app a little infuriating after a short period. Why would you want to search for a beverage made with chicken or a dessert made with pork?
Odd UI and American-centric recipes. Force Close twice on Galaxy S in 5 mins. Uninstalled.
Shame, as I love to cook and like to try different things out.
@AC whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com - most excellent!
"in’t pot".. what's that supposed to be? surely you mean "in t'pot"?
As for pronuncation, it would be closer to "int pot" and not "in tpot", with a softer t in int than in pot, otherwise you'd get a harsh pause between the two words, rather than a fluid transition. This is a common failing of Southerners attempting a Northern accent, with terrible results.
A nice app. I've used a few recipes from allrecipes.com in the past and they're generally pretty good - though since they're mostly user-submitted the quality can be variable.
It works nicely on my Advent Vega too, with one caveat: it's obviously not designed for larger screens or tablets, as the background on the main menu is a small rectangle in the middle of the screen and the app is forced into portrait mode.
Beer because it's not designed for lager screens either.