BP9 Cooklet (Web 2.0) Tool

This week I decided to dig deeper into the pile of Web2.0 apps and find something obscure. After digging through the pile for awhile, I found a site which might be useful for culinary arts teachers. This is the site that has the answer of "what's for dinner?" and is called Cooklet.com

Cooklet.com describe the site was follows:

Cooklet is a platform that enhances the experience of cooking and helps you organise recipes. Through our international community we aspire to develop dialouge and sharing of cuisine among users from all over the world.

Currently the platform is in beta version. We are constantly working on improving all the solutions, do contact us if you have any feedback and suggestions. 

I have found that most recipie sites on the Internet have the same problems.  The first problem is that you don't know if anyone has tried the recipe and second there is no rating system. Cooklet solves these problems by allowing users to share this information using their social network cooking platform as shown below.

For each recipe I can clearly see if anyone "cooked it" and how they "ranked it."  Additionally, members can blog about their experiences and share any changes or ideas they had regarding the dish.


Cooklet also adds a social media feature set to your Cooklet profile.  You can think of Cooklet as FaceBook for recipes and cooking enthusiasts.  Just like other social media sites you can have friends and send messages to them.  Cooklet maintains its own internal email system, similar to other social media sites.  Cooklet supports social cookbooks where you can maintain an online cookbook of recipes you found on the site and add personal notes which you can share with the community. Cooklet also supports forums and blogs for cooking related topics.  Below is a screen-shot of the Cooklet profile manager interface which details the available social networking features.

However the Cooklet experience doesn't stop with computer based social media. Users can use their extras to take Cooklet with you on your mobile device so when you are the grocery store you can look up your ingredient lists.  I believe Cooklet can also be run as a standalone application, but I did not test it. The screen shot below shows the Cooklet platform extras.

Enjoy Cooklet! I know I will.