Fresco - Smart, Guided Cooking app for iPhone and iPad

4.2 ( 7072 ratings )

Lifestyle Food & Drink
Developer: Adaptics Limited

Free

Current version: 2.60.0, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 12 Nov 2014
App size: 230.47 Mb

Fresco is your personal sous chef, ready and willing to help you try new recipes or serve up your favorites. With a smart step-by-step format and recipes made for your appliances, cooking will be so easy you’ll want to do it every day.

Fresco is the only app that seamlessly brings recipes, appliances, and home cooks together to create a smart step-by-step cooking experience. Our recipes work with over 100 different appliance models from Instant Pot to Thermomix to Kenwood, simply tell us what smart appliances you have, and we’ll find the perfect recipes to work with them.

Start cooking in a flash.
Whether you’re a new cook or have been cooking for years, we’ll guide you through every recipe thanks to our guided recipe format. We’re always two steps ahead so that all you have to do is focus on that delicious dish.

Smart recipes for smart appliances.
From Instant Pot® to Thermomix®; connected ovens from GE Appliances, LG Electronics, and Bosch; to the Kenwood kCook Multi Smart and CookEasy+, there are over 100 different appliance models that can be controlled from the Fresco recipes app. Simply connect what you have in your kitchen, and we’ll find the perfect recipes to work with them. From timers to temperatures, we tell your appliance what it needs to do at the right moment so you don’t have to.

Make the internet your cookbook
We can take a recipe from your favorite website or blogger and give you smart step-by-step instructions. Pumpkin bread from Food 52? Pasta from Donal Skehan? We can do it all, and now, so can you. It is also completely ad-free!

Create what you crave
Whether you’re looking for a dairy-free dessert or a vegetarian chili, only see the recipes you’ll love. Filter food by dietary needs, preferences, or meal type (gluten-free, vegan, dairy-free, vegetarian, nut-free, low fat, low sugar, paleo) and get cooking. Once you’ve found the perfect recipe, use the app to resize quantities, make ingredients substitutions, and make the recipe work for you.

Now we’re cooking.

Even more features to sink your teeth into:
-Ingredient substitution: Don’t miss out on a recipe because of one ingredient. Substitute out a missing ingredient with whatever you have to hand.
-Customize your serving size: With recipe resizing, you can scale the recipe quantity up or down in a cinch, reducing food waste without altering results. Don’t worry, we always respect the maximum capacity of the appliance you’re using so that there’s no overspill.
-Personal collections: Save and organize your recipes into private folders, making it easier and faster to plan and cook great food at home.

WIRED Magazine has called Fresco “a pretty amazing thing.” Fresco has also been praised in Gigaom, TechCrunch, MacWorld, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Gizmodo, and many more.

If you knead us, we’re here. Email us on [email protected] with any questions. We would love to hear from you.

Pros and cons of Fresco - Smart, Guided Cooking app for iPhone and iPad

Fresco - Smart, Guided Cooking app good for

As a professional cook and Pastry Chef, the drop scale with app for my iPad and iPhone is hands down the best, most versatile scale I have ever used in my career! Totally indispensable, easy to use, compact and goes with me everywhere. Love, love, LOVE my drop scale (all apps included :))!

So easy to follow steps and make desired meal. Love love love this app!

Drop has changed the way I cook! Its easy to use, the selection of recipes is varied and interesting, and everything Ive made has turned out great! Its perfect for the experienced cook, like me, and for the novice, like my husband. Results are always consistent, thanks to the easy to follow directions, tips and photos.

Please add the ability to enter your own recipe!!!! Then I would give it 5 stars!

This is Great even for beginers, ex plantations are great and images to show what to do. I received as a gift and i love it!

Some bad moments

Would give zero stars if possible. Waste of time, nonsense doesnt even work.

This is a beautiful, well designed and wonderfully useful app for all kinds of baking and cooking. Designed especially to compliment the Drop connected kitchen scale (available at the developers web site and at the Apple Store) youll be whipping up exciting meals and desserts in no time! Features like a timer connected to your phone let you monitor your food while on other tasks, smart scaling and substitutions to make the most of the ingredients you have on hand, and one bowl recipe prep with hands-free progression (with the scale) will make your meals shine! )

I pre-ordered Drop months ago, finally got my scale. The scale is simple, and works, but has no display. You must use it with an iPad. No iPhone compatibility, though it is in the works. Someday. The recipe app is pretty, like Pinterest, but lacks any organizational abilities at all. Have some favorites? Remember their names, because youll need to search to find them again. Some you dont like and dont want to see? Cant block those out. Cant organize recipes into your own categories, cant export or print them either, no way to share. Its a good first attempt at an application, but needs a lot more useful features. At this point I am better off with a $10 digital scale and any $5 cookbook app. I hope the Drop team has a lot more in store for buyers, or mine will end up in the cabinet of unused kitchen gadgets.

I agree 100% with a previous reviewer who said it lacks organization. Going through the recipes I was overwhelmed and hated not being able to remove ones I knew I would never use or organize them by dish type. I pre-ordered this product and was excited to receive it, but it has been in the cabinet since I took it out of the box. Im not interested in a lot of the recipes and would prefer to have the ability to import recipes and use it with those, rather than just the ones that are on the app. I hope this is a feature in an upcoming release, otherwise it will, as the other reviewer said, become an unused kitchen gadget.

Gorgeous photos and mouthwatering recipes. Great for anyone learning to bake.

There should be a way to view recipe ingredients without going through the steps while making the recipe. As it is now, the ingredients are greyed out so you have to strain your eyes to see what it is in order to see if you have enough of the ingredient before you begin..like any other recipe! Need more recipes, and need a way to upload your own. Neat concept though.

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