Mastercook 15 Recipe PC

Was too difficult to manage

I trialled and subsequently purchased MasterCook after the bait and switch tactics of Cookn (which I had used for years). I had a few hundred recipes in Cookn and although I was not looking forward to re-importing them all into another program, I was NOT prepared to pay hundreds of dollars every year to keep using Cookn

I received Mastercook 15 today and love it. It was so easy to install and use. I highly recommend this product to anyone who has tons of recipes sitting in file folders, index cards, scratch paper and more.

Im not as enthusiastic about this program as so many others here. It looks very rudimentary compared to similar programs. It works, but the way it is set up it looks like something from the early 90s, which is pretty much the stone age for software. I had a problem where the program became corrupted somehow. It was working fine one day and wouldnt boot the next and I hadnt done anything in the meantime. Luckily I had only started to use it, but I would be very annoyed if I had a lot of recipes loaded already. Tech support did answer me and told me to delete it and reload which I had already done. When I asked if they knew why this happened because I didnt want to lose recipes again they blamed me for not waiting until talking to them first. Huh? I did exactly the same thing they told me to do and lost the recipes. I thought their response was a bit snippy, but at least they did answer me in a timely manner. I would not buy this program again though.

There are very few computer cookbooks available, of all of them, this is the most useful. Not perfect, but better than the others out there.

I LIKE THAT I CAN SHARE MY RECIPES WITH OTHERS. WHEN I MAKE DESERTS OR COOKIES THAT I GIVE TO FRIENDS I ALSO GIVE THEM A COPY OF THE RECIPE.

I bought this specifically because I can input all my family recipes on my PC, utilizing full keyboard & mouse, and then access them down in the kitchen using my iPad. True, that additional access requires an annual subscription, but well worth it.

Bought the cook book and would not load sent back I have windows 10 not happy at all

I originally went to MasterCook after Living Cookbook went dark would not install on Windows 10. The reason I went ot MasterCook was that they could import all of my recipes (for a fee), but since I did not want to type in the 500+ recipes again, it was a bargain. At first the program was great, but then stuff started to bug me.

The programs user interface hasnt been updated since 2000 and on modern monitors the text is teeny tiny and cramped (see screencap). Theres no way to increase the text size for the main program except to use Windows 10s built-in scaling, which makes all your other programs HUGE. The companys customer service isnt helpful at all, insisting that it isnt a MasterCook problem and that I should just use Windowss built-in scaling to make their interface readable. Im not even using a particularly high resolution monitor (1920x1080), but according to their customer service rep the program is optimized for 1024x768, which hasnt been the most common resolution since 2006. (You can adjust the text size for recipes youre viewing and/or printing, so I have no idea why its so hard for them to do the same for the main interface!)