Top 5 iPhone Apps to Help with Your 4th of July Grilling

Today on this 4th day of July we in the US celebrate our Independence Day.  This is a great time to get outdoors and spend time with family and friends.  What better way to get everyone together than breaking out the grill and having a BBQ.

Get outside and away from your computer, but that doesn’t mean you have to totally disconnect from from technology, as long as you have your trusty iPhone.

Here I will list my top 5 iPhone apps for helping you with grilling on the BBQ.

Al Roker’s Big Bad Book of Barbecue: 100 Easy Recipes for Backyard Barbecue and Grilling by Al Roker

A backyard-loving guy, Al Roker’s passionate about firing up all three of his grills at once and cooking everything from Steaks As Big As Your Head and Kansas City-Style Ribs to Grilled Sea Bass. The hundred recipes in this book are casual and simple — just the way Al likes to cook for his family and friends. Al Roker’s Big Bad Book of Barbecue has something for everyone, including recipes for quick-and-easy starters, marinades, main-dish salads, sides, classic American desserts, cooling drinks, vegetarian dishes, and low-fat fare.

Features
- Natural book-like reading experience with full pagination, like the original printed editions.
- Each title includes cover art, front matter, running heads and page numbers.
- Table of Contents incorporates one click navigation.
- Vertical and horizontal page orientation.
- Adjust font size with a pinch, text reflows automatically.
- Brightness adjustment with paper-like backgrounds.
- Swipe to turn the page.
- Search the text within a book.
- Create margin notes with user notation.
- Integrates with iTunes bookstore, so your next Iceberg book is just one click away.

Price:  $15.99

Grill Timer

Grilling is all about consistency and a big part of that is the timing of the various foods. I wanted an easy to use presetable/resetable countdown timer for four foods. Add the ability to customize the graphics with selections from the iPhone photo gallery and your own foods and times and you have Grill Timer. One button reset and a self silencing audible chime round out the features. You’d pay more for a single plastic kitchen timer and this is so much more fun!

Price:  $.99

 


 


 

Recipe Tracker – Cooking With Your Cookbooks

Recipe Tracker is a handy application to organize the recipes you enjoy from your personal cookbook library.

FEATURES
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Recipe Tracking
—- Recipe name
—- Course
—- Main Ingredient
—- Publication/Website
—- Issue (volume, etc.)
—- Page #
—- URL (coming soon!)
—- Location (the place in your home that you keep the cookbook, such as cabinet, bookshelf in study, bakers rack, etc)
—- Rating
—- Calories *
—- Carbohydrates *
—- Fat *
—- Fiber *
—- Protein *
—- Sugar *
—- Sodium *
—- My Value * (use this to enter a numeric value not included in supplied nutritional values, such as Weight Watchers Points, saturated fats, etc.)
—- Comments

Recipe Search
—- All Recipes
—- By Course
—- By Main Ingredient
—- By Publication

Price:  $1.99

BBQ Recipes

Surprise your family and friends and enhance your summer with BBQ Recipes. This application contains 15 recipes for barbequing lamb, fish and other meats.

Download and prepare your BBQ for delicious meals!

Recipes Included:

- Barbequed Vegetables
- Barbequed Honey Turkey
- Citrus Ginger Tuna Steaks
- Barbequed Orange Chicken
- Barbequed Spicy Shrimp
- Grilled Lamb Kabobs
- Stuffed Grilled Pork Chops
- Whole Stuffed Grilled Salmon
- Chicken
- Lamb Koftas in Tomato Sauce
- Buffalo Steaks with Grilled Mushroom and Garlic Gravy BBQ Recipe
- Minced Lamb Grill
- Mediterranean Lamb Kabobs
- Skewed Leg of Lamb BBQ Recipe
- Peppered Steaks with BBQ Sauce

Price: $.99

MeatTemp

MeatTemp is a reference utility to help cook meat, poultry and fish perfectly, every time!

By using your instant-read thermometer alongside MeatTemp you can interpret internal cooking temperatures of meat and poultry to find the ideal degree of doneness for your oven, spit or BBQ roast.

Meat too thin or delicate for a thermometer? Try the touch test or the cut and peek method instead.

Features
• Determine cooking temperature zones and ideal doneness using an interactive dial together with your instant-read thermometer.
• Perform the Touch Test to find the right moment to remove that steak from the BBQ.
• Cut and Peek into your cooking food to get visual clues as to its degree of doneness.

Price:  $1.99