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- App is now compatible with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
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Product Description
Beautiful photos of each recipe
A Letter From Jamie
Hi Guys,
Thanks for all your messages asking for 20 Minute Meals on Android. It's finally here, and will help you to prepare and cook loads of delicious meals; each one in around 20 minutes.
There's 60 recipes in total; each one presented one step at a time, with photos along the way, so you really can't go wrong! There's also a cool shopping list feature which sorts your ingredients by aisle so you'll be really speedy in the supermarket too.
Breeze through the store using aisle view on the shopping list
As well as all that you'll find 21 videos of me shot exclusively-for-mobile with useful tips, tricks and kitchen skills from sharpening a knife to chopping an onion. Download it today and get cooking!
Big love,
Jamie Oliver xxx
Jamie's App
Who can help but be charmed by England's Jamie Oliver, The Naked Chef? Jamie is well known as chef, restaurateur, and an advocate for improving unhealthy diets, especially championing healthy school lunches for children.
Watch an introductory video from Jamie and get right to the recipes. Search for a recipe or peruse 10 categories such as Delicious soups, Tasty stir-fries, and Simple risottos. Each recipe includes a summary with a picture of the dish, an ingredient and equipment list, detailed instructions, and relevant videos on tasks like garlic preparation or onion chopping. Double-touch the screen in landscape mode to see pictures of each step.
Add ingredients to your list and then use the general shopping list to view by recipe or by aisle. Use the menu to quickly access any video or learn about what Jamie feels are kitchen essentials -- both ingredients and equipment. Jamie promises that this app will "arm you with the confidence" to have tasty meals in 20 minutes!
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
60 of 65 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
**This is mainly the original review that has been voted most helpful critical with the addition of the actual review and better rating and updated information.** The original is listed below, after the update.**
**Update** It seems that people have figured out a work around to get this app working correctly on most phones and testing it on my Thunderbolt apparently it works. Although my Transformer still "Force Closes" when tying to view videos and accessing some recipes. So, that aside, here's a proper quick review.
The proper rating for this app should be 5 stars, obviously if not for the technical issues it would be a 5 star as I think this has some real life value to it. Not only do you get seemingly great recipes but you also recieve lessons on what kind of equipment to use, how to use it, methods to improve your cooking, and more efficient ways of doing things.
But any app that requires a work around to work properly is a ratings fiasco waiting to happen. This is much better than a 3 star but for the time and energy that appears to have gone into this, they should have tested a little better.
But overall, I like the app, first impressions usually are everything, however, in this case, if you are one of the many that had/has this issue and rated this 1-star, try the workaround, once it's working, you can properly review it and maybe learn something. I know I did.
As far as the expense, well, for an app it seems expensive, especially for having 61 recipes or so(when the iCookbook is $5 for 2000 recipes), but the other things included in it, I'd say it's not horribly overpriced. A lot of production went into this as well, so I won't knock it too much. If you are looking not only for a few quick recipes but tips on how to improve your cooking experience all around you wont be disappointed.
That's my opinion, glad my previous review could help you guys and that others posted workarounds and such. Hopefully my update adds to the conversation.
**END UPDATE**
**Original review begins now**
I see a one star s----storm coming so I decided to write this temporary review as a warning, apparently someone, Amazon or the dev, screwed up the DRM/licensing module or something on this app so that most phones are Force Closing after a few seconds, some showing a licensing error others just force closing.
I've tried to test on 5 devices (Thunderbolt, Transformer, Galaxy S, Droid 2, Droid X) (We Heart Android!) and had the same results on all of them. Usually I don't write negative reviews because of stuff like this but this time a lot of people are going to flatten this otherwise decent looking app to the ground (most will never change their initial rating as promised). Which could really discourage this developer from developing for Android or submitting future apps for FAOTD. I don't want to see that, you don't want to see that.
I will properly write this review when it can be tested but for all you FAOD users, I figured Id warn you.
So download the app, if it doesn't work, they will fix it. But please report the problem.
If enough people report this issue rather than rate one star and leave it, Amazon may pull it and bring it back once it's fixed before Jamie Oliver starts getting a bunch of mad, crazy, Amazon Android Free App of The Day user hate mail and/or visits to his home or show. Talk about drama.
TL;DR: This app Force Closes on a lot of phones, but there is a workaround that fixes it, not for the Transformer, but most phones. It's a great app that while expensive covers much more than just recipes and for amateur cooks will likely improve your cooking. I would buy it and be happy with it, if anything because I can cook, but theres always room for improvement and I like these apps, even though I'm a guy.
**Update** It seems that people have figured out a work around to get this app working correctly on most phones and testing it on my Thunderbolt apparently it works. Although my Transformer still "Force Closes" when tying to view videos and accessing some recipes. So, that aside, here's a proper quick review.
The proper rating for this app should be 5 stars, obviously if not for the technical issues it would be a 5 star as I think this has some real life value to it. Not only do you get seemingly great recipes but you also recieve lessons on what kind of equipment to use, how to use it, methods to improve your cooking, and more efficient ways of doing things.
But any app that requires a work around to work properly is a ratings fiasco waiting to happen. This is much better than a 3 star but for the time and energy that appears to have gone into this, they should have tested a little better.
But overall, I like the app, first impressions usually are everything, however, in this case, if you are one of the many that had/has this issue and rated this 1-star, try the workaround, once it's working, you can properly review it and maybe learn something. I know I did.
As far as the expense, well, for an app it seems expensive, especially for having 61 recipes or so(when the iCookbook is $5 for 2000 recipes), but the other things included in it, I'd say it's not horribly overpriced. A lot of production went into this as well, so I won't knock it too much. If you are looking not only for a few quick recipes but tips on how to improve your cooking experience all around you wont be disappointed.
That's my opinion, glad my previous review could help you guys and that others posted workarounds and such. Hopefully my update adds to the conversation.
**END UPDATE**
**Original review begins now**
I see a one star s----storm coming so I decided to write this temporary review as a warning, apparently someone, Amazon or the dev, screwed up the DRM/licensing module or something on this app so that most phones are Force Closing after a few seconds, some showing a licensing error others just force closing.
I've tried to test on 5 devices (Thunderbolt, Transformer, Galaxy S, Droid 2, Droid X) (We Heart Android!) and had the same results on all of them. Usually I don't write negative reviews because of stuff like this but this time a lot of people are going to flatten this otherwise decent looking app to the ground (most will never change their initial rating as promised). Which could really discourage this developer from developing for Android or submitting future apps for FAOTD. I don't want to see that, you don't want to see that.
I will properly write this review when it can be tested but for all you FAOD users, I figured Id warn you.
So download the app, if it doesn't work, they will fix it. But please report the problem.
If enough people report this issue rather than rate one star and leave it, Amazon may pull it and bring it back once it's fixed before Jamie Oliver starts getting a bunch of mad, crazy, Amazon Android Free App of The Day user hate mail and/or visits to his home or show. Talk about drama.
TL;DR: This app Force Closes on a lot of phones, but there is a workaround that fixes it, not for the Transformer, but most phones. It's a great app that while expensive covers much more than just recipes and for amateur cooks will likely improve your cooking. I would buy it and be happy with it, if anything because I can cook, but theres always room for improvement and I like these apps, even though I'm a guy.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
I'd originally used this app on my smartphone, but I found the text and videos too small to be useful; so, I uninstalled it. Now, I'm using the app on my Kindle Fire, and I love it! Step-by-step text as well as video / picture instructions on how to prepare each dish including chopping / cooking methods for each ingredient. Thanks, Jamie!
14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
I would have kicked myself if I saw this app having been free and not snapped it up. What a wonderful way to approach cooking instruction. Your cookbook is your shopping list is your cooking show is in your pocket. This may actually qualify as something new, something original. I have never really followed mr Oliver, but I can already tell that some of these recipes will be my favorites.
So, the review... You get a cookbook, with lots of step by step recipes. You get a shopping list with easy add, that you can whip out at the store, then pop back in your pocket. You get lots of tasty pictures. And! You get videos on how to do the common steps, but with the techniques of a master to practice. All of this, and it's organized in such a way that you'd think there were lots of examples of similar products for it to pull from. But there aren't. This app will be a shining example of what value added, interactive, instructional, media will become
So, the review... You get a cookbook, with lots of step by step recipes. You get a shopping list with easy add, that you can whip out at the store, then pop back in your pocket. You get lots of tasty pictures. And! You get videos on how to do the common steps, but with the techniques of a master to practice. All of this, and it's organized in such a way that you'd think there were lots of examples of similar products for it to pull from. But there aren't. This app will be a shining example of what value added, interactive, instructional, media will become
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This is a very well-done app with great instructions on how to get started for new cooks and several dozens of straightforward recipes. Read more
Published 1 month ago by David Lee
Quality app
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Published 1 month ago by Jacob
Fantastic...with some issues.
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I was excited to test out this app, but it was doomed out of the gate. Upon opening the app for the first time it stated 80mb of additional content needed to be downloaded. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Scott
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