NYT Cooking: Quick Tasty Meals

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4.6
14.9K reviews
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Editors' choice
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Everyone
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About this app

New York Times Cooking has thousands of easy recipes you’ll love to make, from easy weeknight dinners to holiday showstoppers. Editor-curated collections make it easy to find the right recipe, and helpful videos make them fun and simple to cook. With our digital Recipe Box, you can easily save favourites, plan a shopping list and organise the dishes you want to try. Each recipe in our collection is tested to make sure it’s accurate and delicious, every time. We publish new cooking recipes and videos every day.

Subscribe to New York Times Cooking in the app, or if you’re already a subscriber, log in for unlimited access to our recipes and much more.

THE NYT COOKING APP INCLUDES:

DELICIOUS AND EASY RECIPES
- Healthy, hearty, vegetarian or anything else: We have 30-minute dinner recipes for seamless meal planning.
- From morning muffins to desserts for a crowd, we have tried-and-true baking recipes for every occasion.
- Our cooking recipes include ratings, reviews and helpful tips from thousands of other home cooks.

COOKS YOU KNOW AND LOVE
- We have easy recipes and cooking videos from cooks you trust, including Samin Nosrat, Nicola Lamb, Ina Garten and more.
- Plus, tips, tricks and demonstrations from our editors, including Melissa Clark, Korsha Wilson and Eric Kim.

HELPFUL COOKING VIDEOS
- Follow step-by-step demonstrations and guides.
- Scroll through hundreds of short-form cooking videos to discover new recipes.
- Sit back and enjoy episodes of our longform shows, like Cooking 101 and The Veggie.

MEAL PREP MADE EASY
- Search our database of over 20,000 recipes by diet, cuisine, meal type and more.
- Save and organise the recipes you want to make each week in your Recipe Box.
- Add the ingredients to our built-in shopping list, or skip the hassle and order grocery delivery via Instacart.

EASY VIEWING
- Watch high-resolution cooking videos and photos on a larger screen.
- Keep multiple windows open for simpler cooking.
- Drag and drop easy recipes into folders in your Recipe Box.

BY DOWNLOADING THE NEW YORK TIMES COOKING APP, you agree to:
• The New York Times Privacy Policy: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/privacy-policy
• The New York Times Cookie Policy: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/cookie-policy
• The New York Times California Privacy Notices: https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/california-notice
• The New York Times Terms of Service: https://www.nytimes.com/content/help/rights/terms/terms-of-service.html
Updated on
20 Oct 2025
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Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, Personal info and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews

4.6
14K reviews
Scott Bishop
19 September 2025
Lots of good recipes, but this is a paid subscription and yet there are giant advertisements everywhere. The app has few features, it visibly polls for data and reloads the screen, clicking an item and pressing back always returns you to the top of the list instead of where you were (super annoying). The app automatically sets your privacy to share your info, so you'll have to know about that setting and change it which means they still had "permission" for some amount of time. Shameful.
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The New York Times Company
7 October 2025
Hi there, and thank you for your feedback. Advertisements continue to be an important part of our revenue stream at the Times, and helps support our Cooking team. Please contact us at cookingcare@nytimes.com and we would be happy to provide any further assistance as may be needed.
Sagar Bhatt
25 June 2025
Recipes are great, use them all the time, but the app is pointless? The UI is worse than using a mobile brower. No sidebar for what to cook/recipes/ingredients. No "cook mode" to keep the screen from turning off. Autoplaying videos in the recipes even with autoplay turned off (which apparently is only for the home tab). No dark mode, clicking on the author's name takes you to search instead of listing the recipes they have, etc. Only positive to the app is the metric beta test feature for baking
6 people found this review helpful
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The New York Times Company
27 June 2025
Hi there. We are sorry to hear about your poor experience with our Cooking app. The screen should be staying lit when on the recipe page. We would appreciate an opportunity to understand more about your issue and see how we can help make our NYT Cooking app better for you and other cooks! If you would, please email us at cookingcare@nytimes.com.
ONY Architecture
23 June 2024
A good app, though here's a recommendation. When browsing your "Recipe Box", which could contain dozens of recipes, once you select one of your saved recipes to look at and then want to go back to the list of recipes, it brings you all the way back to the top of the list, instead of where you were before clicking said recipe. It's very frustrating because you have to scroll all the way down to where you left off. Please remedy this.
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