New York Times Cooking
Shares rank 2 of 4 recipe apps by recommenders
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.
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.
14 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 6
- approval share
- 57%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Excellent recipe and cocktail repository
“Their recipe and cocktail repository is excellent.”
Comment from 4 Feb 2026 in “How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post” “NYT recipes are laughably pretentious but good”
Comment from 29 Oct 2026 in “New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled” Active team adding useful features
“I think this is a fantastic addition to the app and I'm thankful there's an eng team tracking and backing these features”
Comment from 29 Oct 2026 in “New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled” “It's a huge value add imo and exactly the right thing an app dev team should be working on.”
Comment from 29 Oct 2026 in “New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled” Useful everyday features for cooks
“I cook almost every day and I would use this feature.”
Comment from 29 Oct 2026 in “New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled” “would be a really useful feature for me”
Comment from 29 Oct 2026 in “New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
AI features few users asked for
“Hence employees work pet projects like this one, that few users are asking for.”
Comment from 29 Oct 2026 in “New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled” “You need AI to multiply the quantities in a recipe for more or less servings?”
Comment from 29 Oct 2026 in “New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled” “There is no need for calling gen AI APIs when the app is running.”
Comment from 29 Oct 2026 in “New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled” Recipes hit or miss; techniques weak
“I think some of their cooking techniques are sub-par”
Comment from 29 Oct 2026 in “New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled” “New York Times cooking recipes are a hit or miss at best.”
Comment from 29 Oct 2026 in “New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled” “NYT recipes are laughably pretentious but good”
Comment from 29 Oct 2026 in “New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled”
Other recipe apps people recommend
The three most recommended other recipe apps, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OnlyRecipe 2.0 | 24 | 16 | 60% | 1 | 3.9 yrs3 owners | — |
| New York Times CookingThis page | 8 | 6 | 57% | 2 | — | — |
| Serious Eats | 8 | 1 | 89% | 5 | — | — |
| Mealie | 6 | 2 | 75% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
All 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Between the 40% price increase and this, I cancelled.”
“New York Times cooking recipes are a hit or miss at best.”
“You need AI to multiply the quantities in a recipe for more or less servings?”
“NYT recipes are laughably pretentious but good”
“There is no need for calling gen AI APIs when the app is running.”
“it looks like a start to them cutting their expensive test kitchen”
“would be a really useful feature for me”
“It's a huge value add imo and exactly the right thing an app dev team should be working on.”
“I think this is a fantastic addition to the app and I'm thankful there's an eng team tracking and backing these features”
“This however sounds like a perfectly fine use case, which is also optional to use.”
“I cook almost every day and I would use this feature.”
“I think some of their cooking techniques are sub-par”
“want to disable a feature in a product you pay for”
“Hence employees work pet projects like this one, that few users are asking for.”
“Their recipe and cocktail repository is excellent.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.