Why I buy this one ?
- Easy meal planning with 7,000+ recipes and expert nutritional analysis
- Quickly search by ingredient, food type, cook time, and more
- Conveniently download to PDA, email, or print shopping lists
- Culinary experts give advice in step-by-step instructional videos
- Prepare hundreds of recipes in less than 20 minutes

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What our customer's say!

"Wow", There is more to MasterCook than just recipes. I started using MC to create weekly mealplans. I was amazed when I found out that I could set up a listing of everything in my pantry or fridge in a list and the program would subtract everthing that I already had from my shopping list. It also does nutritional analysis. All I can say is WOW!

"Impressive Application", Having been forced by health issues to watch the nutritional value of the food I eat, I am already finding that this product makes that job a whole lot easier. There is a lifetime supply of new recipes to try included with the program, but the biggest advantage to me is the breakdown of sodium, fat, cholesterol, sugar and other nutrients included with each recipe and the program's ability to extrapolate this information from recipes I enter myself.

In a household of two, there isn't much need to make a recipe that serves 50, but with MasterCook's ability to scale a recipe, a smaller version of the recipe can be prepared with ease, allowing the recipes to be used in suitable proportions. This product is worth far more than I paid for it!

"Not great software", I have had both the 7.0 and 8.0 versions of this software, and was duly unimpressed with both. It is loaded with LOUSY recipes, the search function is awkward, the software runs slowly, backups are unreliable and, the thing that irritated me most, the nutritional analysis of recipes was always WAY off. Either it didn't recognize half the ingredients in the recipe or it was just plain old unable to calculate the values. I thought that perhaps the 8.0 version would have worked out the bugs from 7.0, but I was wrong. I just purchased Cook'n software and so far it appears to be far superior.

"mastercook deluxe 8.0", This is a horrible program,it is not user friendly. For a recipe program pictures are very helpful. Whoever thought picture weren't necessary for a recipe was an idiot. I wish I had known this before purchasing this product. Waste of time and money

"It isn't just software, it is a hobby!", I've been using Mastercook software for about six years. This is the 4th version I've purchased. I'm totally pleased with 8.0, and have had no problems upgrading the previous versions and integrating the old cookbook collections into the newer program. What I like best about this program is that I can enter the ingredient "scallops" and pull up dozens of recipes and select one based on what is in my pantry. (I've never had much luck planning meals in advance). I do not find the software buggy or difficult to use at all. I've also used it to load recipes onto my Dell Axim PDA (handy when at the grocery store). I've had no difficulty printing recipes onto paper or index cards. After you try a recipe, you can annotate it with comments. Better yet, I even take digital photos of some dishes (like the Christmas duck I made) and add them to the recipes. To the extent there are recipes in the collection that are not appealing, simply delete them! I like having a growing family cookbook which I can print for my kids someday!

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"bad software", I purchased this software after doing much research and it worked fine for the first couple of times I opened it. On the 3rd time using the software, the program would not save lists (and deleted all the information I've put in) and started to get error pop-up windows. I've uninstalled the software and reinstalled it and had the same problem. I've contacted the manufacturing company and their opinion is that the computer has a problem. This seems to be the usual answer, when they don't know what the problem is. This software is aweful and will cause a lot of frustration.

"Please give us back old Sierra product", I can't imagine a groups of software writers putting out a product like this. It is slow, buggy, difficult to organize recipes. I spent a lot of time collecting recipes but they are so hard to find in this edition, the whole program is worthless. To those that give this a good product review, you didn't know the old Mastercook 3.0.

"It looks like I am going to delete it and reinstall MC3.0", I finally decided to buy the new edition because of XP and the nutritional information for fats. I love MC 3.0. I hate this one. It would get a 1 star except I like the web feature and the fact I can see the fats otherwise it is a loser in editions.

I have to use two to three steps more for everything and look thru things that I really shouldn't have to do simple chores that I could do in one click with Sierra's version. It also seems buggy. I entered my categories and suddenly when I opened the last time, the template is gone which means I have to redo the entire thing. It is bulky without very good organization. I will say that it is pretty but that is about it. It is coming out a loser and I am starting to look for my 3.0 which is old but fast and more reliable than this.

I use to swear by MC. Course I use to swear by Netscape too. It doesn't mean I can't change my choices. I just wish it was as good as Amazon's service in getting it to me.

Ok I edited this because I had my old MC3 disk shatter. That is another review of a different product. There was no way I wanted MC8 back. I bought MC5. NOT bad at all. It is not as bright an interface. MC8 is much brighter in color causing eye problems The Interface stays very much the same but the Sierra product functions much smoother and with less clicks than the Valuesoft 8.0. MC8 had more problems with crashes and as I said lost all the categories. It also caused major problems importing them. MC5 does the job MC8 claims it does and does fats and imports from the web. The MC5 version does not cause the keyboard/mouse conflict that I had with MC8 and cured by uninstalling. Can I get a -2 for MC8 in stars now?

"Good as a cookbook, not as a recipe organizer", I purchased the MasterCook 8 software in part because of the great reviews it received and its PDA

support, but it isn't quite as good for me as it seems to be for most others. The overall design is

very nice, and it looks better than any other cookbook program that I've tried, and the recipes

look delicious. Unfortunately, it's not the program to use if you have a lot of recipes to import.

I've tried importing Meal-Master recipes, plain text recipes and even recipes exported then

reimported by MasterCook 8, but even though the recipes get imported all of the categories

disappear! Not only that, but there doesn't seem to be a standard set of categories for new

cookbooks -- you have to make your own category template. Another big issue for me is eliminating

duplicate recipes; MasterCook 8 checks for duplicates when you first import recipes, but there's no

way to simply check for duplicates in a current cookbook.

All in all, if you don't have many recipes of your own and you aren't inclined to download

thousands of new ones from the Internet the way I did then this is a good program. If, however, you

have a large collection of recipes or want to build one, this is not the best program with which to

organize them. I switched to AccuChef, which isn't as polished in some ways, but its much better at

organizing my recipes.

"The best recipe management software out there!", I have used Master Cook for many years now, and I am very impressed with it's capabilities. I mainly use it for managing and nutritionally analyzing my own recipes, but the recipes that come with the program are also useful, and easy to customize to your own needs. There are many yahoo (and other) groups dedicated to sharing Master Cook recipes in a format that is very easy to download, and the recipe import feature makes it easy to copy and paste recipes in text format (or from websites - including pictures!) in just a few seconds. It can take a while to type in a lot of recipes from books, or initially typing in your collection if you choose to do it all at once, but I think it is worth the effort. I have tried a variety of other recipe software programs (Cook'n, ChefTec - EXPENSIVE, Meal Master, Instant Home Cooking, CookWare, among a few!) and I have found Master Cook to be by far the best value with the most customization abilities, ease of use, and user-friendliness.

Master Cook also has the capability to keep track of your pantry, create shopping lists, plan your menus, search for recipes based on very specific criteria (ingredients to avoid or include, single nutritional items, your personal rating or category, time to make, cost - if you use the shopping section, etc., and combinations of any of these things).

One thing that I don't like about Master Cook are that it *doesn't* include SUGAR or TRANS FATS in the nutritional information (or a custom nutrition capability - that would be handy for calculating weight watchers points!) I contacted ValuSoft about the possibility of adding these and was told that they do *not* expect to add these in the near future. I was disappointed by this because I think that sugar and trans fat are pretty basic items to nutrition - I hope they reconsider!

Overall, I highly recommend this product if you are interested in maintaining and sharing recipes and/or having control over your nutrition. I have enjoyed the ability to modify recipes so that they are healthier for me and my family, and have given this software (and my recipes/cookbooks from it!) to several family members as gifts.