Mastercook 15 Recipe PC

Havent gotten into the entire program yet but there is so much. For a recipe collector as I am, this is going to be wonderful to catalog my own as well as recipes I have scavenged from around the country.

This software is a must have for those of you who want to organize your recipes and know the nutritional information too! I am in the process of importing all of my recipes and genuinely enjoy how easy this product is to use.

What I didnt like was it would not load on my laptop. Had to have a tech load on thumb drive for it to work.

The current version of this program is Mastercook 2020. One of the very first things it does is ask you to upgrade. Also if you want to use the online features you have to pay into a subscription service.

I had a lot of old recipes in my old PC created by and older version. The company doesnt support upgrading these files unless I upgrade my license with a $75 fee. Not worth it. Wish I hadnt wasted my money.

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.

I tried a free recipe software that was so intuitive, I thought all products would be the same. I was wrong. The Master 15 Recipe PC software makes no sense. No way to easily catigorize recipes. Saving recides does not save to a predeterimine catagory. Waste of time and money.

I have a difficult time with the program. No good direction for it. Wanted to like it because I had another program but it hooked up to the internet and it was more and more difficult to use. I am 73 and really not all that tech savvy.

I purchased this item to record and print my recipes. After a great deal of work, I was finally able to get the program to display the recipes as I wanted them displayed. All I wanted was a list of the ingredients over a list of the steps to create the recipe. I also wanted this information in sufficiently large type that I could easily read it. This is not much to ask for, but it took about four hours to create this format. Then, when I went to print the recipe it would not follow the format that I had created. Instead, the program had its own format that was not at all like what I had formatted for the recipes in which it printed the recipe. If I wanted to have my recipes printed in the format I had designed I would need to spend more time formatting the printing template. At that point, I decided I would simply design my own recipe program using Word and Excel. It is much easier and cheaper that MasterCook. Do not waste your money on this product.

I used an earlier version for years, not sure I like the upgraded version as well, still like the nutritional part when i add my own recipies.