NEW December 12, 2012
The Book of Schmaltz: A Love Song to a Forgotten Fat
Schmaltz for the iPad
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Bread Baking Basics for iTouch, iPhone, & iPad
Bread Baking Basics for Kindle Fire
Ratio app for iTouch & iPhone
Ratio app for Droid
May 24, 2011: Bread Baking Basics App is released for iPhone & iTouch!
February 1, 2011: Bread Baking Basics App is released!
Our new Bread Baking Basics has arrived in the iTunes store: http://bit.ly/breadbaking ($1.99). It’a full-throttle application for iPad with personalized recipes for all kinds of bread—white, sourdough, whole wheat, whole wheat sourdough, rye, rye sourdough, multi-grain and multigrain sourdough, ciabattas, baguettes, boules, loafs, and pizza dough. Just tell it how you mix your dough (with a mixer or by hand), how you want to measure ingredients (ounces, grams, or cups) and all recipes will be generated in that format. To bake bread, choose the type of bread you want, the shape, the baking surface and how much you want, and it will generate a personalized recipe for you and your kitchen with step-by-step instructions and photos.
The recipe generator page calculates amounts of ingredients based on how much bread you want to bake. If you want measurements in grams, just click preferences and select “Metric.” If you only have 10 ounces of whole wheat flour, you can change the quantity in the example above from 12 to 10 and the other ingredients will adjust automatically.
Each recipe has a step-by-step illustrated guide to that particular bread and shape, what it looks like when it’s risen, how to shape the dough for a boule, for a loaf, for a baguette. The email feature allows you to send or share specific recipes with friends as well as to print a specific recipe.
And the handy reference section spells out all the basics you need to bake great bread at home, with notes on technique, ingredients, grains, and various tools.
Thank you: Will Turnage, who developed and built this app, my wife Donna Turner Ruhlman who shot the excellent process shots and, and Manuel Dilone, who created the visual design
We want more people to bake bread, because life is better when we do. We’re therefore offering this app for what we hope is an eminently reasonable $1.99. Let us know how you like it and if you run into any bugs or problems or have any TECH SUPPORT needs, let us know at apps@ruhlman.com.
Happy Baking!
Ratio: The Smart Phone App
The best-selling cookbook, Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking, by me, Michael Ruhlman, is now an iPhone app that will help you calculate amounts of ingredients in all the fundamental culinary preparations. When you know a ratio, you don’t know a recipe, you know 1,000. And this application does all the calculating for you.
What You Get:
–THE 32 CRITICAL RATIOS that form the backbone of the culinary arts, with instructions: doughs, batters, meat preparations, custards, sauces (pasta dough and pizza dough, sponge cake and pancakes, fritters and crepes, stocks and sauces, crème caramel and chocolate sauce.
–A CALCULATOR that figures out how much of each ingredient you need, no matter how many or how few people you want to serve.
–An OUNCES-TO-GRAMS CONVERTER (ratios work no matter what unit you choose to use!).
–DELICIOUS VARIATIONS FOR RECIPES on all the ratios, ideas for the creation of new dishes according to your tastes.
–An easy way to STORE YOUR OWN RECIPES and notes that you’ve created from the basic ratios.
–Quick fun ways to SHARE what you’re cooking with your fellow cooks, on Facebook and on Twitter.
–Ratios is also a great way to understand and TWEAK YOUR OWN RECIPES, to help you make your pancakes even fluffier, your pizza dough crisper, your crème brulee richer.
TECH SUPPORT — If you’re having problems with your application, send us an email at apps@ruhlman.com and we’ll get back to you. (And for those who don’t use an iPhone or iTouch, well get to work soon on other formats if the iPhone app proves successful enough!)
I would LOVE this app for android phones (and would pay!)
As others have mentioned; a gluten-free Ratio for breads would make me do backflips of joy!
I don’t know about the phone aps, but I do know that Ratio works for GF breads and any other baking. It’s all about using ratios and you MUST measure by weight to get a good result. You might check out the blog “Gluten Free Girl and the Chef,” (http://glutenfreegirl.com/) who has a group of GF bakers contributing to The Ratio Rally, using Michael Ruhlman’s book. The entire concept is ingenious! Start backflipping!
Too bad the Bread app isn’t for the iphone. I would definately buy it if it was.
Can’t escape from sourdough recipe! How do I get bak to list of bread choices? Thx
I can NOT wait to load this app up and check it out..the one thing I struggle with in the kitchen is bread making…this would be a lifesaver! Can’t wait!
I seem to be having issues at THIS site with my email being returned to me and with the Ratio app for ipod touch when I hit INFO, it tells me I am not connected to the internet, which I always am, and then freezes. Any help available?
I have the same issue. App doesn’t recognize my Internet connection. All my other apps work so I know it’s this app.
I find it odd (and perhaps confusing to some) that in the bread-making app, water is not measured in fluid ounces, but rather by its weight in ounces. I’ll be sure to use “cups” in the future to avoid any mindless accidents.
Robert, probably because one fluid ounce of water weighs one ounce (hence, the old adage, “A pint’s a pound the world around”).
Actually, a fluid ounce of water weighs 1.043 ounces. A small difference, perhaps, but it does affect the hydration level when dealing with baker’s percentages. Always scale your ingredients – which brings me to the next question: why is sugar and salt in the app listed by the teaspoon, rather than metric?
can you tell me why this is so, that a fluid ounce weighs more than an ounce by volume?
Appreciate this post. Let me try it out.
Thanks , I’ve just been looking for info approximately this subject for a long time and yours is the greatest I have found out so far. But, what about the conclusion? Are you certain concerning the source?
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Can you really trust the ‘gluten free’ label on a product? From what I understand these things are not that heavily regulated, especially with foods produce outside of the country. I’ve picked up quite a few products only to later find traces of gluten.
Extremely helpful information particularly the last part I care for such info much. I was looking for this particular info for a very long time. Thank you and best of luck.
Ruhlman!!! Need the bread app for Android please!!!!!!! Love the Ratio for Android app by the way – genius.
Just purchased the bread baking app and can’t for the life of me figure out the measurements. What is 2.4 cups of flour, 1.6 cups ryeflour? How do I measure four tenths? maybe my simple measuring cups are not going to work.
It’s meant to be used with weights, that’s how ratios work. We probably shouldn’t have but volume measurements in there at all.
If you have a scale, touch preferences and change measurement to grams or ounces, (grams are easier).
If you don’t have a scale, I recommend you buy one (my preference is a My Weigh 8000, makes all of baking much easier and more consistent).
Loving the bread app. Only one minor glitch I’ve found. Using it in conjuncion from what I learned from reading Ratio has opened up my horizons and the oven is rarely cold. Use of a dutch oven was an eye opener and has proven to be fail safe.