Editorial Product Review:Item Description:MasterCook Deluxe 9.0 is the easy way to expand your meal time experience. It's tough to come up with new ideas for dinner, but with this list of recipes you're never short on ideas. Most of these dishes can be prepared in less than 20 minutes! Working in the kitchen just got a whole lot easier. Real culinary experts give advice in step-by-step instructional videos
Amazon.com Item Description:Whether you're a cooking pro or a novice, MasterCook Deluxe 9.0 will make the time you spend in kitchen more enjoyable and efficient, and the results will definitely be more delicious. At the heart of MasterCook Deluxe 9.0 is over 8,000 recipes, including appetizers, entrees, desserts, grill recipes, and even kid-friendly foods. The program will help you find the perfect recipe for the occasion, plan and shop for ingredients, and learn new techniques in the process.
Find recipes and filter by dietary needs, cuisine type, ratings, and more.
Finding recipes is simple as you can search based on ingredients, food types, cook time, and more. And if you're short on time, there are over 400 recipes that can be prepared in under 20 minutes. You can browse through categories to get ideas for future dishes. If you have dietary restrictions, recipes can be filtered for low carbohydrate, low sodium, low fat, gluten free, Kosher, and lactose free dishes, and searches can even be customized based on your needs. The recipe scaling feature will instantly adjust recipes depending on the occasion, whether you are cooking for five or 50. Once you are ready to head to the grocery store, you can print out shopping lists for single recipes or for entire menus to take with you. And if you have a PDA, it's easy to download lists to your handheld.
Print out shopping lists or download to your handheld.
MasterCook Deluxe 9.0 allows you to import recipes from the Web to add to the database. You can use the program to manage your entire recipe collection by entering your own favorite recipes from family, friends, magazines, or other cookbooks, to have everything in one central database. Once recipes are in the program, you can add notes and photos, marking favorites or including pictures of your attempts for future reference.
MasterCook Deluxe 9.0 has your health in mind too, with several tools to ensure you're eating healthy. Nutritional analysis tools track fats, carbs, calories, cholesterol, and more. The program will show you healthier alternatives to popular ingredients, so you can see how substitutions will alter nutritional values.
Included are several helpful instructional titles to help you learn to cook like a pro. With step-by-step instructional video from culinary experts, you can eliminate guesswork by watching complicated processes before you try them. On Cooking teaches you cooking and prep techniques. Food for Fifty will help you plan for the daunting task of entertaining large groups. And On Baking offers over 400 recipes that come with instructions and tips for mastering complicated baking techniques.
Watch step-by-step instructional videos to master complicated techniques.
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Buyer Reviews
Average Buyer Rating:
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MasterCook delux
This is the first software cookbook I have purchased since the Micro cookbooks of the '90's. Not dissapointed but also not overly impressed. Much easier to use with lots of short cuts. Not impressed with the imbedded cookbook and their recipes but I did not buy it for that. I bought it to record and store my collected recipes and it seems fine for doing that.
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Great Tool
Aside from the vast library of recipes, shopping and nutrition tools that this product offers, this software is great for people who have family recipes, who like to invent their own dishes or re-invent them. You can produce a cookbook with all of those beloved recipes and it can include the nutritional value as well (Watch out, you will find out just how loaded with fat and calories mom's home cooking really was). I also like that you can recalculate the portion size of the recipes and it will recalculate your shopping list.
The only reason that I give it a 4 and not a 5 is because it's not a beautifully designed interface. You are getting a lot of utility and flexibility here in exchange though.
If you are kind of a techie, you should consider this software a 5. It's very flexible in terms of it's architecture and database set up.
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MasterCook 9
MasterCook 9 was purchased to replace Mastercook 6 (Betty Crocker Edition) which refused to install using Windows Vista. I found that the newer version works great with Vista and I was able to import all of my personal recipes, as well as the Betty Crocker ones. This has always been wonderful software, in my opinion, and I look forward to adding even more of my personal recipes to it. It is has a small learning curve and once you have mastered that (about three recipes worth of entries will do it) you have something that will greatly aid you in keeping your paper recipes to a minimum.
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program is buggy
I have version 9.0.00.20. It is basicaly unusable. Customer service by Valusoft is about the worst I have run into. Recommend avoiding the program until they get it fixed.
