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hey everyone I'm Hollywood and welcome to tap that app the show where we rundown the hottest applications for your mobile doohickey or whatever this week it is all about Thanksgiving here in the United States and for a lot of you I know that means you're starting to panic maybe you've never made the big turkey dinner before maybe grandma's coming and she's gonna judge your gravy you need help our sister site chow com has created the thanksgiving dinner coach app it's free for the iphone and ipod touch actually i downloaded it onto my ipad and i made it big because i like to use this for cooking so hopefully an ipad version is next also speaking of cooking thanks to chow for letting me shoot this in their Test Kitchen I'm never leaving anyway dinner coach app lets you choose from nine recipes here pretty basic thanksgiving fare nothing that's going to scare off your picky eater friends you can delete whatever recipes you don't think you'll use except for the turkey actually so vegetarians you might want to look elsewhere anyway once you choose the recipes you want to use let's see green beans turkey gravy yes it creates an entire shopping list for you now what I really like about this shopping list is that it also includes the gear you're going to need like the pitcher the whisk the frying pan the roast or that kind of thing but anything you already have you just tap it and then it disappears from your list off you go okay then and this is where it's really helpful it creates an entire cooking schedule for you by day so what you need to do on Monday defrost your turkey what you need to do wednesday and what order you need to cook things so you can have everything ready all at the same time this is a super useful organizational tool now this is a pretty basic app it's probably best for people who haven't cooked Thanksgiving dinner before or who are just interested in keeping things simple and organized for example I wish that you could import other recipes from the child database there's a lot of good stuff there but in this case you're pretty much stuck with these ones here if you wanted to customize you might want to try something like I feast thanksgiving or you could combine this with the turkey recipes app in the itunes app store that's got 38 different turkey recipes also i would love it if there was a way to email someone the shopping list so that you could send someone else to the store or maybe even print it out all in all though if you're nervous about Thanksgiving dinner or you just want a good way to stay organized this app is dead simple to use and it's free so you know if you can take the stress out of cooking that means that you can just serve a good meal sit back and go to your happy place while Aunt Alice criticizes your housekeeping again for tap that app at cnet com I'm Molly would