Both professionals and amateurs use it more often in the fireplace. This year's kitchen gadget is not the espresso machine or wokpannan - it is mobile.

You can use it to make shopping lists, find recipes, as a timer or to translate the U.S. to European dimensions.

When you're finished, you can use it to photograph käket. The mobile phone has taken a major leap into the kitchen, reports the New York Times. Even with professional chefs - known for its technology contempt - have them now at hand when they work.

Chris Cosentino, chef of Incanto restaurant in San Francisco, tells the magazine how he uses the program Iconvert in his Iphone to calculate how much salt and other spices he needs to meat dishes. 

For amateurs with a modern surfing phone, there is now a variety of sites to download recipes and shopping lists from.
Largest U.S., Allrecipes.com and Bigoven.com (which has produced a special mobile application for the Iphone). Here at home in Sweden, there are dozens of recipes sites, including Tasteline, ICAs recipe bank, H ittarecept.se and Arla.se.

Tasteline have a mobile service. Arla.se has developed a program for the Iphone. There is now also Systembolaget wines an application in Apple's mobile phone.

So far the mobile prescription services had a limited repertoire. If you use arla.se in your Iphone, you can only search for recipes. But at the end of last year, multinational Kraft Foods yet another step in the culinary interactivity: when the Group launched Ifood assistant, taking the help of Iphone GPS.

Once you have chosen a recipe Ifood talking about you where you can find the nearest grocery store (with products from Kraft, of course). In the shop program guides you to the right shelf, and can even play a video showing how to cook right.

Now we wait only for a small mobile application that organizes the perfect table location ...