# New York Times Cooking

8 Hacker News commenters recommended New York Times Cooking and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for its large recipe and cocktail collection and active app team. Critics say recipes are hit or miss and dislike the AI features and price increase.

## Why people recommend it

- Excellent recipe and cocktail repository (2 comments): "Their recipe and cocktail repository is excellent." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46891490)) "NYT recipes are laughably pretentious but good" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283728))
- Active team adding useful features (2 comments): "I think this is a fantastic addition to the app and I'm thankful there's an eng team tracking and backing these features" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283335)) "It's a huge value add imo and exactly the right thing an app dev team should be working on." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283350))
- Useful everyday features for cooks (2 comments): "I cook almost every day and I would use this feature." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283272)) "would be a really useful feature for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283426))

## What people warn about

- AI features few users asked for (3 comments): "Hence employees work pet projects like this one, that few users are asking for." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283045)) "You need AI to multiply the quantities in a recipe for more or less servings?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283805)) "There is no need for calling gen AI APIs when the app is running." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283665))
- Recipes hit or miss; techniques weak (3 comments): "I think some of their cooking techniques are sub-par" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283151)) "New York Times cooking recipes are a hit or miss at best." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284317)) "NYT recipes are laughably pretentious but good" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50283728))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [OnlyRecipe 2.0](https://hackerapproved.com/p/onlyrecipe-2-0.md): 24 recommend
- [Serious Eats](https://hackerapproved.com/p/serious-eats.md): 8 recommend
- [Mealie](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mealie.md): 6 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://cooking.nytimes.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "New York Times Cooking", https://hackerapproved.com/p/new-york-times-cooking-app/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).