Save Recipes As Contacts on Your Phone for Quick Access
Perhaps you have a carefully organized Notes app, a framed poster of your favorite recipe cards, or a steel trap mind that stores your cooking recipes down to the teaspoon. It should be nice!
For the rest of us, even the simplest cooking foray can mean a last-minute scrum to wipe our hands and grab a laptop, cookbook, or recipe card to make sure we’re not going to add catastrophic amounts of chili powder. into this pot of soup.
Over the weekend, food writer Adam Eras came up with a pretty brilliant solution: recipes or conversion factors that you use all the time, save them as phone contacts for quick access.
Sure, it can get cumbersome if you tackle it too hard, but being able – the average chunk of onion – to elbow your phone and tell Siri, “Read me the contact information for tomato sauce” can make life in the kitchen that much easier.