What do you consider the best recipe software for Windows?

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We learned a lesson on the importance of triple back ups. We had Data
General mini mainframes and storage on Winchester removable hard drives.
I forget the spin rate but the room was well cooled. One time the drive
crashed. OK, no problem We figured the drive went bad. We put in the
backup. It crashed as reliably as the first. It was then that we
realized it wasn't failing hard drives, it was the hard drive read/write
arm mechanism failure. Nearly put us out of business.

Andy
"They say that baking up is hard to do..." Neal Sudoku ;)
 
On 20 Mar 2011 15:55:57 GMT, notbob wrote:


I still don't understand what "proprietary formatting code" you're
talking about that would be carried over after a text copy and paste
into MS Word. Then, MS Word should export it as HTML or plain text
easily without any change in formatting of the actual text.

(I've been programming for 30+ years)

Perhaps I'll understand what all the complaints are about once my MC
software has arrived. I should get it tomorrow.

I'll play with it and report back on the results.
 
my question is do the older versions work on xp and vista and win 7? Lee
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On Mar 14, 5:47 pm, Landon wrote:

I've been using Master Cook for eons....since version 3 maybe...but I
never upgraded. I was thinking about getting the new version. You
think it would import all my stuff from the old version???
 
On 2011-03-21, sf wrote:

Several ppl, including myself, have substantiated this fact more than
once. Landon is either a cretin or a simple troll. I choose
the later. Disregard and move on.

nb
 
Years ago, I used MealMaster, but it's seriously out of date in
today's world and on windows.

I'm trying to find the latest, greatest software that will allow
importing of existing recipes on the net and easy to use with great
search features.

Thanks!
 
On 3/14/2011 5:53 PM, Landon wrote:

Unless someone actually sees the software in operation, I sincerely
doubt that they will "see what you mean"

I'm reading about the word processor people and their folders and sub
folders and just shaking my head.

BTW, for emailing or posting recipes, there's an email feature and the
"copy" feature converts the recipe to text. How do y'all think I can
post them here?

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Way-the-heck-south Texas
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On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:21:48 -0400, Landon wrote:


Of course, you did say "many years ago", so depending on how many
years ago, perhaps MS Word didn't do what you wanted.

I still use MS Word 2000, so I'll try it out with MC-11 and get back
with you on the results.

I'll take some screenshots and post them.
 
On 20-Mar-2011, sf wrote:



OK; I just don't get it; if all you are going to do is cut and paste it into
a text file and save it in a directory, I don't see why you care if there is
a bit more than you need/want. The recipe is perfectly usable as shown.
Then again, I may be misrembering; I thought you didn't use recipe software,
just cut and paste into text files stored in a collection of folders.

To each his or her own. I won't make you use MC if you won't make me use
text files. 8-) But, I'll continue to post recipes as MC exports and you
can choose not to save them or not. I learned long ago, no matter what you
do on RFC (usenet in general, actually) there will be people who don't like
they way you do it; you can't please everyone - the best you can hope for is
to not piss-off everyone. ;-)
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will be a while as the kitchen has to be finished first, on the up side is
big and easy to read for the dh, on the down side, no speech for me... on
the upside, we mostly use recipes as guides, and only have a very few we
adhere to closley, Lee
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Landon wrote:

extraneous


I inherited Mom's 2 volume Gourmet hardbound cookbooks, published in the
late 1950s.

There was no formatting whatsoever. They didn't list ingredients
followed by instruction steps. It basically read more like a story!

Also, instructional steps weren't ordered by precedence. You had to come
to terms with what to first and what to do last to make it most time
efficient.

I got "The Art of French Cooking" by Julia Child and friends for 25
cents at a yard sale. The biggest problem is the index of recipes which
was mostly in French and moi, not speaking French found it impossible to
find lots of recipes. WTF's a mother to do?!? ;)

My computer recipes are merely text files. Well organized chaos, like
I'm used to! I've pdf'd them to the iPhone. I've also got a dozen
cookbooks of recipes on the iPhone that I've never used except for
hunger boredom. The best is the allrecipes cookbook. They allow
hamburgers for dessert! :)))

Andy
 
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:54:04 -0700, sf wrote:


It wasn't that long ago that your way was the only way to do it. On
DOS, that was the way to do it. A sub of a sub of....I still have a
couple of my old machines. I just keep them now because I had so much
fun on them then, I can't stand the thought of throwing them away.

In fact, I've planned to put one of the older Windows machines in the
Kitchen and having a monitor hanging in the corner. I have lots of
kitchen space and counter, so it won't be in the way as much as it
would be helpful to have right there where I'm prepping something.

Fun toy and I love gadgets.
 
On 2011-03-20, l, not -l wrote:


The "situation" was, I was using Linux and the "provider" didn't want
to be bothered with accomodating me and threw a fit when I tried to
discuss a solution. I'll be damned if I'm gonna fight over being
allowed to help.

nb
 
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:14:24 -0500, "Storrmmee"
wrote:


I'd be putting new ones on there, but it still seems like a better
idea than paper. I have a ream or two's worth of printed recipes
sitting in the kitchen. It's getting to be so much that I either have
to organize them or throw them out.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:19:05 -0500, "Storrmmee"
wrote:


Stormee, not to be negative, but so far in my experience, nothing
works with Win 7. It either doesn't work outright or important
features are disabled. And if you go with Win 7, don't count on being
able to read all your old files. You will probably have to look for
some software fixes and still not be able to open everything. This is
my experience. I'm no techie and I will readily admit that I am
recovering from illness that left me with brain fog. I'm finally
beginning to work through some of the fog but Win 7 continues to taunt
me.
Janet
 
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:21:59 -0400, Landon wrote:


So which recipe software company are you shilling for?

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On 21 Mar 2011 18:11:30 GMT, notbob wrote:


He's fine. I like him - just as I like you, Mr. Cantankerous. ;)

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On 3/14/2011 5:59 PM, The Cook wrote:


I have a oookbook called "Recipes to Test" that I created in my
mastercook especially for new ones that I'm not certain of.

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
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