5000 posts milestone and new toy to celebrate with

[beefmann]

finally after 8 years of  being a member i finally  hit  5000 posts, i know for  some it is not a  lot, none the  less it is  still a  milestone, for that i have a  new play toy and here is my  review of it..

key ingredient reader, is a  electronic cook book, it comes  preloaded with 250 recipes and you can  load  up to  2500 recipes with  pictures and other  information. or 5000 with  out pictures,, as per there  information


booting up,


the green folders are  recipe books that i have  set up and made  recipes in, across the  bottom starting at the  left is main  menu which is what you  see, as for the rest i will show you


this is  what is in one of the cook book folders,,, you  can  set yours up differently . this is my  American recipe book as you  can  see in the upper  left hand corner


the recipe and directions all on  one page making it  easy with out having to really  fuss, if it in a  long  recipe or instructions,, you can scroll the page down

on the about page, you  can add it to the planner which is used to make the meal  easier,,, and you  can  flip through the planner on the selected recipes,,, more later

a  nice feature it has built in 3 different timers to monitor 3 different items for cooking

another  very  nice feature is the  converter function that you  can convert to almost anything from a  dash to tsp to cup to gallon,,, to many to  list here though very  helpful


one of my favorite items is the  substitution menu,, if you  done have an ingredient and  want to  know what you  can  use in place of it,, here you  go,,  a quick  reference...


the option page is where you  like it to your  wireless wifi and your  account on key ingredient also on  key ingredient is where you  program your  recipes  there you  can make them pubic, friends or private

my easter cook book i  just choose 3 items and add them to my  planner and go from there

after you set up the planner you   press second button as indicated and it  will go onto the  next item for the  meal so  prep and cooking  is made  easier

second item of 3

and 3 of 3 all  through the planner which makes it  easier instead of searching through the  recipes for the  one you  want again,,,, after done with the  planner,,, you  just go through and  clear it,

one minor problem that i currently  see is the  battery  life is about  2 1/2 hours with wifi on,,,  not sure  of what it is  when it is off,,, am thinking maybe  an  hour  longer,  it does come with a charger so its not  really an issue 2 /12 hours is plenty long  enough to read the recipes and work on them .. and  all 3  have had it on well over an  hour and never  had it  go  blank or enter a  battery saving  mode  over all a  good  produce ti  have,   great for thoes  who are on the  run and do bbq type  events quite often



 

[ragweed]

Congrats on your milestone!  Nice "toy" too.

[devo]

Congrats

[Gafala]

Congrats, Nice. I have this on my Galaxy Note 3 I like it.

[Saber 4]

Congrats on the milestone and that's a pretty neat present you got there.

[Tenpoint5]

Congrats Beefman! That is a nifty little toy you have there!

[devo]

The best part about these new toys and recipe apps is the grocery list they make for you so you just need to take it with you and get what you need. I have several of those apps on my I-phone and love them. 

[Snoopy]

looks good, i need to start loading stuff on my ipad and such, been printing and throwing into a binder at home. but do highly reco the "how to cook everything" app by mark bittman, its a few bucks but tons of awesome stuff in it.

[Ka Honu]

Pretty cool and definitely "feature rich."

I see you can get the app on Android (free) and use your existing tablet, phone, etc. Most importantly, you can apparently add recipes from your desktop - I can't type worth beans on a tablet.

[iceman]

Congrats beefman!
Niffty toy too!  :)

[beefmann]

Pretty cool and definitely "feature rich."

I see you can get the app on Android (free) and use your existing tablet, phone, etc. Most importantly, you can apparently add recipes from your desktop - I can't type worth beans on a tablet.

that is the best part of it,,, all or most of the  input is on a desktop or lap top.

[beefmann]

the  best thing of this recipe book is it was free,,,, here is the story

a while back i  joined " keyingredient.com " as a basic member ... started adding  in recipes as i was thinking of buying one of these readers for  Christmas anyway,,, 10 days later up  pops an add that  states " for the  first 1000 U.S basic members that  become a  prime member ( $ 20.00 a  year ) gets the ingredient reader free" so im thinking how can i go wrong, a $  150.00 reader, $ 20  membership for $ 20 cant  go  wrong,,, so i sign up for prime and pay for it,,, they send me the promo code to get the  unit and follow the instructions and at that time they offer an extend 24 month warranty,,, hummm,,, why  not  so i pay for it as well,... so i now have $ 185 worth of goods services and warranty all for  $ 35,,,, I think it is  a  great  deal... and great  score 

[Dano]

That's awesome beefmann!  Congratulations!

[OldHickory]

Congratulations, and the new toy looks very useful.

[JZ]

Congrats!! Cool toy and you got it for my favorite price too. :)