Cooking In Cruise Control: Become The Master Chef With Cooking Planit App

Forget what you may have heard in the past, this actually is the best thing since sliced bread. Made for those craving convenience and a helping hand in the kitchen, Cooking Planit, an online cooking companion, is a new cooking app available on August 21 for your smart phone (iPhone/$2.99) or tablet (iPad/$4.99) and can even be accessed online. The lifestyle and organizing tool helps families and foodies effortlessly prepare meals in an efficient way, helping you sift through all of the overwhelming recipes listings available online.

Gone are the days of strenuous meal planning, written ingredient lists, calculating cooking times to assure everything will be simultaneously table-ready and perusing websites for specific recipes. Cooking Planit takes the headache out of homemade masterpieces by providing you, the household chef, with the following:
- Hundreds of chef-written and tested recipes
- Step-by-step instructions to guide you through the entire cooking process - from planning to grocery shopping to execution.
- Chef-recommended meals that can be modified to your household tastes complete with complimentary entrees and sides to create the perfect combination of flavors.
- Flexibility to search and build your own meals and save the dishes to your "cookbook" for easy access.
Cooking Planit aims to make you the master chef of your kitchen, giving you exact timing guidelines that adjust to your pace making sure all of a meal's components are cooked to perfection. The main function of the application, also known as "cook mode," organizes the recipe steps and guides chefs through the cooking process so that all recipes are completed simultaneously. Based on the user's pace, the estimated ready time will automatically adjust itself so the chef in the kitchen can better plan when dinner will be on the table. To make the process even easier, the "cook mode" function can be used from your smart phone, tablet or computer and can be advanced using voice recognition so that you as the user never have to touch the screen with "chicken fingers" or "dough hands."

But the buck doesn't stop with you- Cooking Planit's social integration allows you to share what you are making with your friends and family via your own social media accounts on facebook, twitter and more. Leaving no recipe unturned, the "smart search" feature uncovers even the most scarcely used ingredient within recipes and meals to provide a true search as opposed to other apps that just locate ingredients found in the recipe's title.

Stressful grocery store expeditions are now as simple as the click of a button with Cooking Planit. The application provides a fully functional grocery list that automatically organizes itself by the sections found in a typical grocery store layout. Eliminating any confusion, the user's list will also automatically aggregate items found in recipes, so there is only one ingredient in the list with the combined amount for all recipes.

Whether you're a professional chef, working mother or single young professional, Cooking Planit brings a fool-proof approach to cooking great meals on a budget; users can adjust personal preferences and/or dietary restrictions to weed out any unwanted options and bring the best recipes forward. From mapping out a menu, to grocery shopping to juggling several dishes in the kitchen, you are sure to impress your dining companions with your newfound culinary finesse.

Cooking Planit was founded in 2011 by partners Jonathan Vlock and Tripp Wiggins. They met at a dinner party, where they bonded over their shared frustration of boring, monotonous meals. Brainstorming sessions followed and Cooking Planit was launched to create a way to get out o