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YummySoup! 1.0
YummySoup! 1.0 is a slick new recipe management app with a silly icon, and that's just the way I like my icons. This app incorporates an online library of recipes, full screen recipe display (which comes in hand when one is cooking), smart groups, and support for multiple shopping lists. The shopping list function is cool, you add recipes to your shopping list and then you can print it out or email it to yourself to make shopping a breeze. Sadly, it lists the ingredients per recipe, instead of aggregating them into one über-list, so if you have two recipes that call for a pound of chicken it doesn't like 2 pounds of chicken but rather 1 pound twice.YummySoup! is Universal, has a 15 day trial, and costs $20 for a full license. Best of all, it isn't even in beta!
Samsung prepping RFID-enabled refrigerator
Sure, there's always that heated debate over whether or not RFID use in our everyday lives is beneficial or voyeuristic, but Samsung's forthcoming refrigerator most certainly falls in the former category. No, it doesn't sport a built-in LCD monitor, automatic thawing, pizza nook, or an invisibility cloak, but it does manage to keep a close on the amount of food remaining in your refrigerated containers. Moreover, this eagle-eyed fridge will purportedly be able to send a shopping list the owner's cellphone or directly to the supermarket when it detects your milk, juice, eggnog, or assortment of critical condiments are reaching dangerously low levels. As if this wasn't enough to lay down a pre-order, it will supposedly offer up recipes to users as well based on what's currently residing in your fridge. Of course, there's no (presumably lofty) pricetag attached to this pipedream just yet, but it is slated to hit retail floors "around 2008 or 2009," and maybe they'll enable it to physically visit the grocery store and shop for you in the meantime.[Via textually]
But can it cook?
One cooking game, it seems, was not enough -- Nintendo of Japan is bringing another kitchen assistant to the handheld, and this time it has a nifty accessory. Forget silicon protectors or oversized Ziploc bags, get a magnetic holder for your DS and stick it on the fridge out of splash-range. We're not sure if the accessory will be packaged in with the title, but it would make sense. DS Kondate Zenshu, apparently a sequel to the earlier Cooking DS (not to be confused with Cooking Mama), contains over 1000 recipes and will include WiFi functionality. Looks like we better start those Japanese lessons ... if only someone would do something similar for an English audience!
Kraft makes recipes available for iPod
In all fairness, we saw Emeril do it first. Our friends at AdJab have discovered that Kraft has made more than 100 recipes available for download to your iPod in Notes form. Recipes include BBQ, drinks, desserts, sides and more. The portability is nice, I just wish there were a way to print these directly from the iPod. The screen is tiny, and my cooking area isn't always a safe place for my iPod to be.The good news is, now I won't have to refer to the mayonnaise jar whenever I want to make that great potato salad.[Via AdJab]
