BitflingerRecipesClassic dishes and cocktails as ratios, with stand-ins worked out from your own pantry.
Most dishes are a ratio plus a choice of ingredients. A vinaigrette is three parts oil to one of acid; a curry is protein, liquid and aromatics in roughly four, three and one. Bitflinger Recipes shows some 1,600 dishes that way, from roast chicken and lasagna to pho, mole and pavlova, grouped into the families they belong to. The whole Bitflinger Cocktails library sits in the tab beside them: some 560 drinks, worked out the same way.
One purchase of $9.99, for iPhone, iPad and Android. There is no subscription, no account, no ads and no tracking, and everything you enter stays on your device. Just want the drinks? Bitflinger Cocktails is the free version, with every cocktail.
How it works
Tell it what is in your pantry and it shows what you can make. When a dish calls for something you don't have, it builds the closest version from what you do: it picks stand-ins of the same kind, then adjusts the amounts until the salt, sugar, acid, fat, savouriness and heat come back to the original's, and it scores how close the result is.
Two tabs: Food and Drinks
Food is the dishes and Drinks is every cocktail from Bitflinger Cocktails. Each tab keeps its own list of what you have: a pantry for the food, a bar for the drinks. Open it from the button at the top of the tab and tap what you have, or start from the usual staples in its menu.
See what you can make
Every dish has a tick when your pantry covers it as written. Turn on Can make to see just those, or With swaps to add the ones you can make with a stand-in or two, scored for how close they come.
Group the library by ratio, protein, key ingredient, macros, prep time or total time, or search it by name, ingredient or taste.
Make it from your pantry
Missing something? Choose Make it from my pantry on the dish's page. The app swaps in the closest ingredients you have and adjusts the amounts to bring the balance back. The directions follow the swap, so the steps name what you are actually using.
Cook for your table
Choose vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, Mediterranean or Low-FODMAP, and mark the allergens to avoid. The library shows what fits as written or with a stand-in. Each dish shows its protein, carbohydrate, fat and calories per serving, and scales to the number you are cooking for.
Make it yours
Tap the heart on a dish or a drink, or hold its card, to add it to Favorites at the top of its tab. The settings button beside the search changes servings, units, the swap threshold, the accent colour and dark mode.
Cocktails or Recipes
Bitflinger Cocktails is the free version of Bitflinger Recipes: every drink, completely free. Bitflinger Recipes adds the food, some 1,600 dishes beside the same drinks, for a one-off $9.99.
| Feature | Cocktails$0free, for good | Recipes$9.99once, no subscription |
|---|---|---|
| Some 560 classic cocktails as ratios | Yes | Yes |
| Make it from my bar, with a match score | Yes | Yes |
| Favorites, units and backup | Yes | Yes |
| Some 1,600 dishes, from roast chicken to pavlova | Not included | Yes |
| Make it from my pantry | Not included | Yes |
| Diets, allergens and macros per serving | Not included | Yes |
| Scale a dish to your table | Not included | Yes |
Bitflinger Recipes is its own app on the App Store and Google Play: pay once and it is yours, with no subscription and no in-app purchases. Your bar comes with you: export a backup from Bitflinger Cocktails and import it into Bitflinger Recipes. $9.99 is the US price; the store shows yours before you buy.
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Support
Email help@bitflinger.net with a question, a bug or a recipe you think is wrong. Saying which dish and what is in your pantry helps.
Moving to a new phone
Your pantry, bar, favorites and settings live on the device. In the app, open Settings and choose Export backup to save them as a small file, then Import backup on the new phone. A backup from Bitflinger Cocktails brings its bar across too.
Refunds
The App Store and Google Play handle purchases and refunds. Ask the store you bought from: Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com, Google from your Play order history.
Privacy
The app collects nothing. The details are in the Bitflinger Recipes privacy policy.
Dietary and allergen information is a guide, marked from typical ingredients. Brands differ: always read the label, and ask when eating out. Please drink responsibly: the cocktails are for adults of legal drinking age.