I'm Cooked was awarded the number one award among the Web 2.0 food website nominees. This site is a web community for video recipe sharing. If you don't want to post a video of yourself cooking you can watch other people cook many different recipes.
I like to cook and I am constantly looking to cook different things. Cookbooks often just list how to do everything and you usually do not get to see a picture of the finished product. With this site you can make sure you are preparing the recipe correctly. I know I have often made things that tasted good but didn't quite look like the picture. Seeing the steps allows me to make sure that I am doing everything correctly so it will turn out the way it is supposed too. The quality of some of the videos where not as good of quality, which made it hard to see what the person was doing. I wish that the site also listed a written version of the recipe along with the video so if you missed something you had a list to follow along with the video.
The site did have a few useful features. One obvious feature is being able to upload your cooking videos on to the site for others to view or even to connect with by making them your friend. You are also able to rate and comment on the videos. The site also has a search feature so you can limit your search result to the recipe you are looking for. If you are not quite sure what you want to cook, the site divides videos into channels to help better organize the cooking videos. You can also join a group or even create a group with people with similar cooking interest.
I can see this this application being used in Home Economics classes. I know when I took Home Economics in high school we did a section on cooking. This would be a great way to incorporate technology into the classroom by showing the students how to prepare something before they have to prepare the recipe themselves. You could even have the students do a project where they have to make a video of them cooking and post it on the site and present it to the class that way.
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Good site! You could also search for recipes in YouTube. I never liked making a meal by fallowing a recipe but watching how someone else actually doing it is a lot easier. I usually watch the whole thing to get an idea and then I just stop the video to follow the instructions and continue with it when I am done. I also do this with home projects or other things that I don’t know how to do but I want to do it myself… that’s it, YouTube is the best source of “Do it yourself” videos in the world! Ridelto
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