Mastercook 15 Recipe PC

Ive used Big Oven for years. Im sure Ive spent thousands of hours entering recipes. A couple days ago it crashed after a Windows Update. I was so upset, because my recipes were all in Big Oven. I was so devastated. i spend a couple hours on the internet trying to find something else to go to. When I read that Mastercook has been around for 20 years, I purchased it right away. If Im going to invest so much time into it, I want it to be around.

Great program and easy to use.

Looks good

I had the original software from probably the 1990s. It was a very handy program, though not particularly slick. I have been through a couple of computers and this time I cant find my cd. The tech who transferred the info saved my recipes however. I was going to buy the new software, but after reading the reviews, I wont, Its not worth it to me to get into a monthly subscription so I will just organize the recipes in some fashion so they are easily accessible.

Easy to input recipes software loaded without a hitch

There are very few computer cookbooks available, of all of them, this is the most useful. Not perfect, but better than the others out there.

My love affair with MasterCook is over! I began using this product when it first came out, back in the days of floppy discs, and found it to be the best cookbook database around. I have faithfully upgraded this, in all its different guises and over 20 odd years have added a substantial number of personal recipes. So, why the falling out? Simply put, the new incarnation of Mastercook is too buggy to be reliable. I am running windows 10 with MC 15 and find I am having to re-load the program constantly. Ask it to do the simple things and it is perfectly good, it has some great extra features but... ask it to do multiple things for example transfer more than a dozen recipes over to a new cookbook and it crashes. Opening the program to simply access a recipe is a gamble as to if it decides to work today or not. I have better things to do with my time than to endlessly tinker with a buggy program.

Had used a much older version of MasterCook for years until my laptop totally crashed. Of course, my recipes werent backed up on any removable device.

I originally went to MasterCook after Living Cookbook went dark would not install on Windows 10. The reason I went ot MasterCook was that they could import all of my recipes (for a fee), but since I did not want to type in the 500+ recipes again, it was a bargain. At first the program was great, but then stuff started to bug me.

carol caruso