Parsnip: Learn to Cook

For someone who’s been cooking for years, it’s really been helpful to know the terminology for everything that I’ve been doing. For me, I use the recipes as a baseline and I normally change things up to my liking. But if you are someone new to cooking I recommend following the instructions until you get the hang of things. It definitely got me more excited about cooking recently because of the game aspect. The streak is nice but I do mainly use it for additional recipe ideas and proper term usage. I do enjoy that you can pick recipes based on vegan, dairy free, vegetarian, quick, etc.

my biggest issue with the app is the streak system: changing ur time zone at all entirely resets ur streak. the first time this happened I was upset but thought maybe I just did miss a day but it happened again a week later when I flew back home secondly while the lessons r nice and cohesive they certainly don’t cover everything. sometimes the questions and possible answers given r misleading. i also wish there was a way to see the explanation for the wrong answers without actually having to get it wrong. i find the explanations helpful but if I want to see every different explanation i have to get the question wrong even if I know the answer. also, for questions where multiple options r correct, i would love for there to be an actual explanation to go with it other than that this game is a rlly easy and nice way to pick up new cooking information that I do daily like duolingo

This app has quickly become my favorite thing on my phone. I am a freshman in college, living in a dorm with a personal kitchen. And I can’t cook. My roommates can manage their own meals, but I had a meal plan this last semester. Over winter break I found Parsnip and it is a game changer. I really don’t know the slightest thing about cooking. I love how this app takes you step by step through shopping for ingredients to how to handle utensils and tools. I feel more confident in the kitchen than ever before. I’m looking forward to seeing more recipes added, I hope I can contribute some of my family’s favorites! I love that this app does not have any features you have to pay for. I don’t have time to balance my heavy school work and a job, so this app being free is going to continue to serve me for many months and hopefully years to come. Thank you for this great app, I cannot recommend it enough.