Roasting Large Cuts of Meat with the Right iPhone App

November 21st, 2011

Ryan Guynn

With Thanksgiving quickly approaching, many home chefs are dealing with their biggest food obstacle of the year in the form of a big, intimidating bird which will take hours to prepare, hog their entire oven, and present health problems if undercooked. The difficulties of cooking turkey are very well known and are largely about timing. Too short a cooking time and the result can be hazardous, too much time in the oven and it can be unpalatable. These are problems even experienced cooks often battle with, because in combination with constantly checking the bird, there are all the side dishes to think about, and the dessert. Whatever can help to ease the worries of producing a enormous meal on time in a limited kitchen, all while attending to other duties, should be used. Utilizing an iPhone app is not cheating.

Cooking large cuts of meat

While the pressure is usually the greatest during Thanksgiving, roasting large cuts of beef, pork, or poultry present challenges year round. This is especially so if they do not have to do it regularly. The rules are distinct from stovetop cooking and the cook either has to count on knowledge and perception, or they must get help. Help comes in many forms. The old method was to use the charts provided in some cookbooks, but at Thanksgiving counter space can be limited, and flipping through a cookbook frantically trying to find the right thing is nobody\’s idea of a fun holiday. In the modern kitchen, help comes in the form of cooking applications for a smart phone. The Is it Ready App was designed to assist wanna-be cooks deal with the task of timing those difficult cuts that can be ruined by overcooking or undercooking. It is one more thing for which your iPhone is useful.

Mobile apps for ccooking

Mobile phones and tablet computers are among the best items to come along for serious home cooks since the invention of the convection oven. Access to the millions of recipes and cooking applications are on hand right there in the kitchen with no pages to anxiously search through to find the right information. Needless to say, there is a lot of searching to find the right thing, and not everything on the Internet should be trusted. That is where the excellent time and temperature advice on the Is it Ready Yet app comes in. The cook does not have to bet dinner on whether some random website out there is correct.

Features of Is it Ready Yet?

With one click the iPhone timer can be started with suggested cooking times for various types of poultry, turkey being among them, of course. Other cuts of meat include beef, ham, and pork roasts. The makers of the app promise to help with many other kinds of meat in the future, in addition to to some exciting social media features. Users may use metric as well as imperial measurements.

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