Skillet empowers users to learn to cook at their own pace with bite-sized step-by-step videos. I love cooking but I was frustrated with the ways available to learn new recipes and techniques, like expensive and time-consuming cooking classes, other apps or website, usually overloaded with text, and Youtube videos or cooking shows forcing me to lag behind or pause too many times. So no matter if you are a beginner or a master chef at home, Skillet will adapt to you, and not the other way around and will explain as many times as you need. Thanks for visiting and please let me know your feedback or I'd be happy to answer any question you might have!
@vickyoshee This is great! The other day I found a subreddit called https://www.reddit.com/r/GifReci... and thought it would be awesome to have an app that works like that - maybe even help me record recipes of my own. Check the subreddit out - they would love Skillet.
@markorussiver nice! Thanks for this. Once you get to try it (on your iPad if you have one, or with any device using our responsive web app), please let me know what you think!
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Clicking "Register" on the login page doesn't work for me (takes me to same page)
@shimmb Hi Simon, you have to click again in the "Start cooking now!" title.
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@vickyoshee@shimmb It's not immediately clear what the point of signing up is. Perhaps you should add more to your on-boarding process to make that more clear. Plus I generally don't link my Facebook account to things like this. Anyhow, if it's not working, then why is the link there?
@shimmb Thanks for the feedback Simon, we'll look into it and fix the link. We're also working on having a "guests" button so you don't have to register just to try it, and an email sign up for those who prefer not to log in with Facebook.
Do you have any data on the number of folks that would feel comfortable taking a $500+ device into a kitchen? I'm always suuuuper curious about these kind of apps, because I normally don't even like to take my phone out for a quick notification/peek when I'm cooking. My hands are dirty, my surfaces are dirty, etc.
I've seen a few apps add hands-free controls, but even then you still need a clean/safe place to set the device. Any plans to tackle that?
@clarklab Hi Clark, great question. The idea with letting you cook with steps is, among others, to decrease the amount of time you have to touch your device (to pause repeatedly for example as you would with YouTube). However, we would like to include a voice command in the future. Do you think that would tackle the issue? There are also many tablets or phones holders to help you with that, etsy is a great place to find them. We would actually like to help connect those who make it with those who need them.
@vickyoshee wouldn't pausing a YouTube video take the same amount of interaction as proceeding to the next step in Skillet? You've still gotta push a button to go to the next step (unless voice commands hit).
@clarklab Youtube videos require you to pause or rewind too many times, because it doesn't stop unless you touch the screen. Our recipes are sequences of micro steps that hardly last more than 60 seconds, so you just touch to continue to the next step or replay if you need to repeat the step. At least it gives you time to clean your finger before without having to lag behind to pause or swipe until the exact minute/second you need to go back. I'd suggest you to give it a try first and let me know what your experience was like. Thank you!
@vickyoshee awesome I'll give it a try. I've used other video recipe apps before and wasn't really a fan, which is why I was asking. My usual use case is to watch the video (or TV segment, haha) in one pass, then try cooking it. When it's a really hairy recipe, I might open up the text-only steps on a device, but I've yet to find a video-in-the-kitchen flow I can handle. Looking forward to it!
Among our future plans, we'd like to make the whole cooking experience better and more pleasant and to remove all the obstacles that are now preventing people to cook more at home, like giving users the chance to buy their groceries right from the app. And we'd like to invite chefs from all over the world to share their culinary wisdom and teach their best recipes to thousands of people from every where!
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@vickyoshee I would love this, my biggest obstacle is buying the ingredients, have you considered creating lists inside instacart? https://www.instacart.com/store/... you could just create a list for each recipe and eacg super market in the major geographies, and link to it from Skillet
@andresbarreto Thanks for the feedback Andres! We're working on it!
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Skillet is super easy to use because it breaks up the cooking process into distinct steps. I love the visual aid you get with a cooking video rather than a written recipe (I was always a big follower of Mark Bittman's videos on the NY Times site, for example). Skillet's videos are still short and sweet, but I love that the "pause" feature is built in -- I never feel rushed and I can go back and review a step if I have trouble. It also helps me choose realistic recipes to make! Nothing is worse than choosing a recipe that looks easy, only to find out halfway through that it takes hours.
I think this is a really powerful idea that has a ton of room for growth. The more people can get involved (sharing recipes, creating their own videos, voting for recipes and leaving reviews), the more popular I think it will become.
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