Publisher's Description
From Advenio Software:
You organize your digital photos, you make playlists of your mp3s. Now bring your recipe organization into the 21st century with MacGourmet. Think of MacGourmet as "iTunes for Recipes". MacGourmet helps you create and edit recipes, wine notes and cooking notes, easily browse your entire collection, and build your own custom lists for categories like appetizers or desserts. MacGourmet also offers the following features:
- Publishing of your collections to .Mac and WebDAV accounts
- Publishing of recipes to MovableType, TypePad and Blojsom weblogs
- Many options for printing your recipes, including printing on index cards
- Easy import of recipes found on the web using clipping, drag and drop and cut and paste
- A sample recipe pack for first time users of 80 recipes
- Shopping list export to HandyShopper and SplashShopper on your PDA
- An extra large Chef's view for preparing your recipes in the kitchen
- Import of MasterCook, MasterCook Mac and Meal-Master recipes
- Flexible recipe scaling
- Metric conversion
- Many ways to search, including the recipe box search field, find, cupboard find and potluck find
- Smart lists that keep themselves updated automatically
- Chef's Reference of commonly used cooking information
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"Vast improvement over previous versions."
Version: MacGourmet 3.0.3
Pros
Must have discovered usability testing. Converting text clips greatly simplified. I cook for multiple food allergies and it's important to preserve substitutions, and to downsize large recipes.
Cons
So far, so good.
Summary
Useful tool greatly improved in version 3. Now to see if it can work with my iPhone.
Greatly improved over version 2.0. Much easier to browse web and import recipes now. I need to alter ingredients and portions for food intolerances in a two-person household, and this makes it easy to save my modified recipes. Directions now break into numbered steps according to paragraph breaks, which simplifies preparation. Makes me want to cook again, which is no mean achievement when one must avoid gluten, citrus, cow dairy, tomatoes, peppers, pineapple, mint, and chocolate. I look forward to exploring links to iPhone, so I can pull up a recipe if I spot some great seasonal ingredient in the market.
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"Great recipe manager!"
Version: MacGourmet 3.0.2
Pros
Easy to use-- set-up like itunes. Great capabillities that help you organize recipes, whether originals or imported.
Cons
It's a bit tedious entering in information manually, but the layout is ideal in the end.
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"a fantastic update"
Version: MacGourmet 3.0.2
Pros
to repeat it is a fantastic update, runs well, & wow, improves the overall appearance of recipes, and chef's view.
Cons
you can no longer easily clip & copy recipes from websites that are not supported by MacGourmet. Tthere are really very few websites that are supported in comparison to the vast numbers available. The "Featured button"is only a tease for the future..
Summary
I've use MacGourmet for several years, appreciated the "free to try" format.. sold me within days! I'll stick with the program!
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"The good, the bad, and the ugly."
Version: MacGourmet 3.0.2
Pros
I like version 2 better than version 3. I love recipe import & clipping function in Safari, Categories and recipe groups are a great way to organize my recipes. Notes is my most used function - I use it to track recipe evolution/changes.
Cons
Version 3 is a terrible upgrade. Clipping isn't working for me. I don't like the way the folders work now.User support is not what it used to be. Chef view in version 3 takes over the entire screen and you cannot minimize it to see anything else.
Summary
I have been using MacGourmet for years now and have recommended it to every cook I know using Mac. I have praised it as a godsend to everyone I know and have enjoyed the ability it has given me to organize and track my recipes and how I have changed them over time. UNTIL NOW. The new version has many issues in my opinion and customer service is not what it used to be. I am currently looking into other options, and will give up on MacGourmet if they don't address the problems in version 3. I only upgraded from version 2 because my recipe imports from web pages started having html code appear in the ingredient and directions list and were a real pain to remove from the recipes. I do not recommend MacGourmet Version 3.
While I'm still disappointed in the customer service, frantically trying to figure out why the program wasn't working and clicking randomly all over the screen, I finally found out why the clipping importer wasn't working -- the clipping text area was hidden to the left side of the import assistant window and mousing-over the area did not indicate there was anything there. I just happened to click all over the place at the left of the window and my cursor changed to a bar with an arrow and allowed me to drag to the right so that the clipping text was revealed. I also noticed there is a new view - item view - that opens a recipe in its own window. This will allow me to have several recipes open at once, which resolved my complaint about chef view.
Updated on Nov 6, 2010
However, I am still experiencing bugs where sometimes I'll open a clipping to import it to the recipe fields and though I see the text area in the window, it will be empty. Restarting the program fixes the issue temporarily. -
"great program use it all the time"
Version: MacGourmet 2.4.7
Pros
organizes my recipes, easy to access
Cons
hard to get recipes off the web
Summary
my favorite recipe program for mac
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"I enjoy MacGourmet everyday!"
Version: MacGourmet 2.4.4
Pros
Easy to use, intuitive and transportable (I have the Iphone version!). Now if I could sync my computer and the phone, that would be great!
Cons
Up to now, it does work fine.
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"Very easy to use. Lots of great features."
Version: MacGourmet 2.4.3
Pros
Best support I've ever experienced.
Cons
Would like to see direct import from more web pages.
Summary
Highly recommend MacGourmet!
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"Easy-to-use, comprehensive risk a program for the Mac."
Version: MacGourmet 2.4.2
Pros
See summary.
Cons
No cons in my experience.
Summary
Easy-to-use. Comprehensive features. Imports web recipes. Frequent updates. Great program. Love it. Use it all the time.
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"The best of all, but...."
Version: MacGourmet 2.4.1
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I agree with the other users that the developer is shockingly responsive and helpful. I have tried all the recipe software there is and MG's the best. I wish it did a few things like:
*closing the revision window when I press return. I use the program so often that little things like that add up.
*creating shopping lists with more info next to the ingredient, like keywords or categories that it is associated with.
The one thing is that it has tiny little glitches that keep me from trusting it completely. I'll create a shopping list for a multi-day, multi-meal event and all the math will be perfect except for ONE or TWO items. I can't afford to send my shopping lists away incorrect, so I go over them after they are generated.... I always go back and be sure it's not a data entry issue, too.
For example 3T plus 4T plus 3 cups of vinegar does not equal 563 gallons...
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"Best recipe app I know of but with some major flaws."
Version: MacGourmet 2.4.0
Pros
iTunes like interface including recipe "playlists" make organizing and finding recipe options a breeze.
Layout is reasonably attractive.Cons
Entering ingredients and prep times is unbelievably painful.
Customization of various recipe descriptors is inconsistent, not intuitive, and too often not available.Summary
Macgourmet uses iTunes as a jumping off point, and being able to easily sort and access "playlists" of recipes is invaluable for scanning the various options of your collection. Smart lists allow you to organize recipes into endlessly different personalized categories, like perfect presets on an advanced search.
The layout is also reasonably attractive and, due to its similarity to iTunes, largely familiar.
When the Macgourmet creators don't have iTunes as a template, however, the application can go way off the rails. The biggest problem is in the method of entry for ingredients and prep times. If you don't use a clipping (like say you entered tons of info for a recipe but forgot to include the ingredients and need to go back to edit your entry), the programmers may have discovered the most tortured, painful way to force users to enter ingredients and prep times ever. A simple copy/paste isn't an option. Every measurement must be entered individually. Every ingredient must be entered individually. And prep times must be entered using an awkward combination of form fields and pulldowns. It's a friggin' MESS.
Macgourmet is also extremely inconsistent about what you customize and what you can't. For example, courses can be edited (in a non-intuitive way), but not cuisines. You also get an editable section of tags called "categories", but only one, so you're forced to dump a slew up unrelated descriptors in a long, long, long scrolling list. Incredibly clunky.
It's a promising program in many ways, but filling it up with recipes can be a tedious and frustrating experience.
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