Organize Your Recipes on Your Computer
Recipe-oriented software just may make cookbooks passé.
Justin BernhautWhy give cookbooks a lot of space in your house when you have so much more room on your hard drive? That’s the reasoning behind
downloadable software such as Cook’n ($80, dvo.com) and BigOven ($30, bigoven.com).
Like free websites with online cookbooks, both come with plenty of recipes and let you paste in your own from other sites. (Caveat: The generic recipes that come with these programs lack the provenance and confidence factor of your favorite cookbooks and magazines.)
In addition to sorting recipes, these programs do other tricks: adjusting for different numbers of servings; offering nutritional information; creating menu plans; and, in the case of Cook’n, generating shopping lists organized by aisle.
Steve Murch, president of Lakefront Software, which developed BigOven, suggests that with programs like these, cookbooks could become a thing of the past. We’ll see about that.
Like free websites with online cookbooks, both come with plenty of recipes and let you paste in your own from other sites. (Caveat: The generic recipes that come with these programs lack the provenance and confidence factor of your favorite cookbooks and magazines.)
In addition to sorting recipes, these programs do other tricks: adjusting for different numbers of servings; offering nutritional information; creating menu plans; and, in the case of Cook’n, generating shopping lists organized by aisle.
Steve Murch, president of Lakefront Software, which developed BigOven, suggests that with programs like these, cookbooks could become a thing of the past. We’ll see about that.
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