As Feast enters its second year, the Guardian says some exciting new features will further enhance the way people cook and plan meals. One of the most requested features, personalised collections, will soon allow users to organise their favourite recipes within the ‘My Feast’ tab by theme, cuisine and occasion. Another new feature will help with shopping lists, making life easier by gathering ingredients from multiple recipes into one single digital list for either in-store or online shopping.
To celebrate one year of the Feast app, the Guardian has compiled some of the best stats that reveal how users have been cooking their way through its recipe collection.
Over the last year alone, the Guardian says Feast app users have rustled up recipes with almost 200,000 eggs, 43,000 aubergines (eggplants), and 12 tonnes of flour, as they set about exploring the 6,000 plus carefully curated recipes now available in the app from 150 chefs (with those stats growing every day).
Built on decades of the Guardian’s food journalism, the publisher says there's a fresh collection of seasonal and trending dishes to discover each day, tailored to suit all moods and occasions. It features both brand new recipes, as well as favourites from the Guardian’s 30,000 archive.
Loved worldwide, the top cooked recipe per country includes:
- UK and Australia: Tomato and aubergine one-pot baked pasta
- Germany: Perfect pasta primavera
- Greece: Perfect chicken pie
- Mexico: Peanut butter ramen
- Netherlands: Lebanese moussaka with five-garlic-clove sauce
- Singapore: Sausage ragu lasagne
- South Africa: Adas bil hamoud (sour lentil soup)
- Taiwan: Banana upside down bread
- USA: Spiced roast carrots with feta, dates, bulgur and beans
Top recipes being cooked in the UK this summer
- All-time favourite chopped salad with honey dressing
- No-cook salad with tomatoes, chickpeas and rose harissa
- Courgette pappardelle with feta and lemon
- Dahi murg – yoghurt chicken curry
- Baked salmon with miso and lime
Global cuisines
- Top searched ingredients searched worldwide include chicken, cauliflower, aubergine, salmon and courgette
- And the most popular cuisines that users enjoy cooking are Italian, Indian, British, Middle-Eastern and Spanish.
A kitchen companion
- With around 100 new recipes added each month, it’s no surprise that 76% of Feast users turn to the app for cooking inspiration and to explore new cuisines
- For busy weeknights, 38% rely on Feast to help plan simple, quick and healthy weeknight meals including one-pot dishes and tray bakes.
A subscriber only product, the Guardian says Feast is a key part of its strategy to increase its digital and global presence. Rated highly in the Apple and Android app stores, Feast’s first year has been a hit, earning praise for the broad range of recipes available, acting as a source of inspiration and its ease of use.
Tim Lusher, head of food, Guardian News & Media, says: “I have loved learning how people have been using Feast over the last year. Everyday we are adding new dishes to the app to suit every taste. Whether it’s discovering new global cuisines, planning easy weeknight dishes or revisiting Guardian recipe favourites, our aim has always been to inspire confidence and creativity at home and we’re just getting started.”
Liz Wynn, chief supporter officer, Guardian Media Group, says: “A truly global product, Feast is a celebration of everything our readers love about the Guardian’s food journalism - creativity, diversity and a real passion for cooking. I’m pleased to see that in just one year, the app has become a trusted companion in kitchens around the world. It's a powerful reminder of the impact great content can have, and we’re excited to keep evolving the experience for our global community of home cooks.”
The Feast app extends from the Guardian’s weekly 24-page Feast magazine which can be found in the Guardian print edition every Saturday.
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