Mastercook 11.0

3.7 | 176 ratings

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Last update: 05-22-2024

About this item

Short on Time? Enjoy 400 savory baking recipes with step-by-step instructions in under 20 minutes!
Cooking for 5 or 50? Easy to use recipe scaling feature will instantly adjust recipes depending on the occasion and attendance.
No Restrictions! Customized recipe sorting for low carbohydrate, low sodium, low fat, gluten free, Kosher, lactose free dishes, and picky eaters.
Print and Go! Ready to head to the grocery store? Click print and you have your shopping list for a single recipe or your entire menu.
Battle the Bulge! Nutritional analysis tools track fats, carbs, calories, cholesterol, and more. Even see how healthy substitutions can benefit you!

Top reviews from the United States

KatyB

If you collect recipes, this is a must have

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2012

I recognize that I am a recipe nerd. I started collecting recipes from the internet when I was just out of college - 10 years ago now. At the time, I was just copying and pasting the recipes into Word documents, which I organized in folders on my computer. After a couple years, I had almost a thousand recipes - I couldn't stop. And, my organizational system had its limitations, but at least I had a system. Then a friend bought me a prior version of Mastercook, and my life changed. After I spend the time upfront to put my recipes into the program, I realized just how accessible they could be to me. Dozens of times, I have had a perishable ingredient in my refrigerator with no plans to use it (I hate wasting food), and Mastercook gave me the options available for it. The shopping lists functions, the menu planning functions, the nutritional information functions, all of those are amazing and eminently useful. But the real benefit is the searching - I simply love it. Now, even though I am collecting my recipes in hard-copy books these days, I still make sure to put the recipes in Mastercook with the ingredients so those recipes will show up in my searches. It makes me very, very happy.

spud17

I've been waiting for a version of Mastercook to work magic with my old MC files...and Mastercook 11.0 does it.

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2012

I have been using Mastercook for a loooong time to manage my recipe files: I have been using MC4 and all my files were stored in it. In general, I loved it and it did everything I needed from a recipe manager, but my old version was getting really buggy. I have been waiting for an update that was reported to work well with Vista and would easily accept files from older versions and this is it. I just installed the program and indicated where my old cookbooks were stored and it loaded them right in. So far, it has worked with the old files seamlessly.
I also love the functionalities of this version which, admittedly, may not be new to Mastercook, but are new to me. Among these are the ability to make a menu and cost out the entire thing. I do some catering and this has been a super tool to estimate per person costs of jobs. Of course, you still have to enter ingredient costs manually, but once that's done, it's there when you need it.
The reason I only gave it four stars are some quirks of navigation between individual recipes and the cookbook "indices" and the vagueness of the description of some of the standard ingredients. However, you can always just make your own ingredient description, so this does not detract too much. I also used to be able to upload plain text files with special formatting right into the program, making it easy to cut a recipe from a web page, paste it into a Word doc and then save it in the proper plain text format. Now it appears that you have to cut and paste the ingredients and directions one at a time from the web page, making it more time-consuming.
Overall, I am thrilled with this version of Mastercook and would recommend it to anyone looking for a way to store your piles of precious paper recipes.

Heidi C

Older version much better

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2012

I bought this to upgrade my older version of MasterCook Deluxe (released in 1995). I use it mainly to input my own recipes and create shopping lists. The old version was really good for this; the new version is terrible. This is NOT an upgrade, just different... and not in a good way. Formatting options and autofill are more limited. It has lots of bugs and crashes often, usually just before I hit the "print" button on a completed shopping list. Sometimes recipes that I have entered into my personal cookbook disappear for no reason and have to be re-entered. If my old MasterCook software would work on Windows 7 I would still use it; but for now, I'm looking for a suitable replacement.

Update: After one too many crashes, I finally gave up on Mastercook. I tried a number of other programs, and the closest thing I've found to the features I liked here (easy recipe input, customizable shopping lists) is Cook'n. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. And you can't beat the customer support. So until Mastercook fixes its many problems, don't waste your money. There are other, more reliable options.

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