- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP
- Date added: March 22, 2006
- Total Downloads: 14,795
- Downloads last week: 189
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 12 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This nicely designed program stores recipes and allows you to share them via e-mail. RecipeMaster's well-organized interface displays recipe categories on the left with entries displayed on the right. You'll first have to open Cookbook Manager to choose one of the two preloaded cookbooks to see recipes. You'll find five folders: Categories, Ingredients, Country, Recipes, and Favorites. A simple but effective search tool is offered. Recipes can be imported and exported in several formats and, with configuration, can be sent via e-mail. You can add or modify categories, ingredients, and units of measurement, but the program lacks features such as a meal planner or shopping-list manager commonly found in similar applications. At first, it seems as if the promised Favourite Wines, MealMaker, and Conversion features weren't included in the program, because you have to maximize the window to see those icons. Still, RecipeMaster has most of the basics down and it's offered free of charge.Publisher's description
From jimbooth :A complete recipe cataloging database system. Features wine selections and database converter--converts pretty much anything to anything. Imports from popular formats MealMaster, CompuChef, MasterCook. Import direct from the clipboard. Email recipes direct from the program. Utilizes CookBooks so you can share your recipes with other users--for example create a cake cookbook. Features MealMaker--you type in the ingredients, it tells you what you can make.
User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.9 stars out of 12 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: RecipeMaster 2.1
Pros: Free. Multiple databases to keep cookbooks separate. Simple interface for BASIC recipes using common ingredients. Nice summary screen.
Cons: Recipe builder is very clumsey. A great UI for the less technical, but very boxed in it's functionality. For example, once you add an ingredient with a unit of measure, all ingredients must then have units of measure (e.g. you can't just say Salt & Pepper without selecting a UOM - you must exit and re-enter the edit mode to blank the UOM field). If your ingredient isn't in the list, you have to save and exit your recipe, create it separately and return to recipe editing. No ability to add ingredients not in the list. No nutritional information.
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Version: RecipeMaster 2.1
Pros: It's free and I didn't have any other.
Cons: Just want a simple catalog software to load and catalog my own recipes - don't need all the extra stuff.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: RecipeMaster 2.1
"Imports large mealmaster files with ease. Easy to use."
Pros: Ability to import and export from several different formats. Can paste from the WWW and add images.
Cons: Limit of 65K recipes per cookbook.
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Version: RecipeMaster 2.1
"It's free but usable is another question."
Pros: The user interface is really quite nice, with drop down menus for entries.
Cons: The drop down menus are very nice but limit the usefulness because any ingredient not on the drop down list can't be entered.
Summary: I suppose it would be OK for some people but for myself, not worth the download.
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Version: RecipeMaster 2.1
Pros: The meal maker feature is awesome - it can search recipes based on your ingredient.
Cons: Nothing so far
Summary: Great software free software (although donation is appreciated)
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