[Feature Friday]: The Cooking View

This Feature Friday is focused on the Cooking View in Plan to Eat! Take your Plan to Eat recipes into the kitchen on your tablet, laptop, or phone using the Cooking View.

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Transcript

[00:00:00] 

I'm Riley and I'm Roni. And this is the plan to eat podcast, where we have conversations about meal planning, food, and wellness. To help you answer the question what's for dinner.

Roni: Hello everyone. And welcome to the Plan to Eat podcast. Today, we have a very special episode for you where we're going to teach you how to make our favorite recipe. 

Riley: favorite recipe.

ever. We're going to make toast. 

Roni: We're going to make toast. So Riley, tell me about your favorite way to make toast.

Riley: you know? I'm weird. Okay. I like my toast. Warm and light, light, lightly toasted, like on a color scale. I'm like just slightly darker than the color of the bread. 

Roni: Oh, so just like tan bread.

Riley: Tan, tan is a great way to put it. I like tan. I like to tan my toast, but lately. Luke likes his toast at Lukas.

My husband, for all of you listeners, Luke, my husband loves [00:01:00] toast to be like crispy and crunchy and like brown toast. I'm not into it. It's too tight. That's way too toasted for 

Roni: Uh, like black and brown or just like a deep brown. 

Riley: deep brown.

Roni: Okay. Because there's a difference because some people like their toast blackened, basically, you know, I'm not one of those people. I'm not, I'm not a tan toast person. I'm also not like a blackened toast person. I'm somewhere in the middle somewhere. You know, somewhere along the lines of like a normal brown color is how I like my toast.

I don't that's I know that's very generic, but I like a very generic style of toast. You know, I put it in the toaster. I have it set on the same setting every single time. And that's how long it goes into the toaster for. And then it's done and it's perfect every time. And if somebody ever, if my husband ever changes the little dial on the toaster, it's serious business.

Riley: So I watched my toast like a Hawk because there is no leaving the toast in the toaster because I like, I give up, [00:02:00] if you have the one that they pop in and out of, you know, I'll press the button five times. toasted it is. Cause again, I like it barely passed warm. Like then I'm being dead serious. Roni.

Roni: What's your favorite bread for toasting?

Riley: well I'm gluten-free um, so I'm going to go with the canyon Bakehouse white toast. I like that. I like that the most. 

Roni: Oh, I'm all about that because I'm not gluten-free, I'm all about that famous Dave's 

Riley: Oh, 

Roni: fame. I think that's what it's called famous. Dave's dosed, something like that. Some, some, some 

Riley: Oh, no, no, no. You're talking about Dave's killer bread. 

Roni: Dave's killer bread. 

Riley: Yeah. Famous Dave's barbecue. 

Roni: Oh, you're right. Okay. Well, this was all a joke. You guys had April fools.

We're not talking about toast today for a whole podcast. That would be silly. All right. So 

Riley: Although I have to say I was being serious about how I like my toast. 

Roni: fine. I mean, as being serious about my toast and my bread choices, even though I couldn't remember the name of it, but that was just a joke. We were actually [00:03:00] here for a feature Friday. And we're going to tell you about the cooking view.

Riley: but cooking be you is amazing. It allows you to easily cook your recipes while you're cooking them in the kitchen. It's a different view from just your recipe card. it allows you to scroll through the steps, and view the instructions. And the best part is that it doesn't make your screen go to sleep. If you're cooking from your phone. 

Roni: So you can use the cooking view either from the website or you can use it from the mobile app on a tablet or your phone. Um, if you don't like to have your computer in the kitchen, we obviously recommend the mobile app version and you can get to the cooking view by if you're just looking at the recipe card, there's a big button at the bottom that says cooking view, or you can tap on a recipe in your planner.

And in that menu that pulls up the cooking view is like the fourth or fifth option. And so you just tap on that to say, start cooking, and then you have it in that cooking view that like Riley said, well, keep your screen awake while you're cooking. And then you can just tap through the steps and view all your ingredients all [00:04:00] at the same time so that you don't miss a step and you don't miss any ingredients

Riley: if you're cooking a bunch of meals at one time, like let's say you're making homemade pasta, homemade spaghetti sauce and homemade meatballs. Those are all going to be planned on the same day on your planner. you can actually utilize the cooking view for these recipes. Um, so you can start by tapping on the recipe that you have planned in your planner that you want to start with.

So we'll start. Pasta recipe. Okay. And you can select to start cooking from the menu options. Then you'll use the next button in the upper right corner to navigate between the cooking view of each of those individual recipes. So you can, um, cook your pasta and then switch over and cook your marinara sauce and then switch over and cook your meatballs. 

Roni: Yeah. So that's just a quick way to be able to toggle between your different cooking views. If you're making multiple recipes at once, like Riley said, you could use it for a recipe that calls for multiple things in one recipe, or if you have a main meal and a side dish that you're cooking at the same time, that's the feature that you would use to view those.

Okay, well, we hope you enjoyed this really [00:05:00] quick feature Friday, once again, happy April fools. We hope you enjoyed our little joke at the beginning of the episode, and we will see you guys next week for a regular podcast episode. 

Riley: Happy Friday.