What is Mastercook???????

[sneezles]

It's software for recipes. You can purchase it with Betty Crocker or Cooking Light. Check out the home page at http://www.sierrahome.com You can also buy it at Sam's or software stores.

[phantomcg]

You can also check out eBay for Mastercook. I just got a brand new, unopened Mastercook Deluxe for $12.00 (including shipping)! You have to be careful with shopping on an auction site, but you can get some bargins if you look.

Cheryl

[Karen from VA]

If you buy, be sure to get Version 5 or 6. I think I just read that Cooking Light recipes were included in Verson 5, but not in Version 6. Version 4 is good, and there still may be some being sold on sale tables, but the program was totally rewritten in 5, so you don't want to buy "obsolescence."
Karen

[S]

How does the nutritional analysis on Mastercook work? Does it give analysis for your own recipes? Can you type in a recipe and have it calculate the nutritional analysis for the whole recipe or servings? I would really like to analyze some of my recipes and would really be interested in Mastercook if it did that.
Thanks.

[Margie]

It would really be nice if we could get the CL recipes from the web site in MasterCook format. That way we could import them into the software, instead of storing them separately on line or retyping them.

[Grace]

Margie, that is possible. Go to www.cookn.com (http://www.cookn.com) and get their "cookpacs" - they cost $6.98 a month, but it is a download of every recipe from that month's issue in MasterCook format that you can import to MasterCook. No more typing!

[Ohioan]

S, Mastercook gives a thorough nutritional breakdown per serving of every recipe you type in, as long as the ingredients you use are in the databank that Mastercook comes with. (If one of them isn't, it's really easy to add an ingredient or just associate it with an existing one; for example, if "stuffed green olives" isn't there, you can link the ingredient to "green olives" either for that recipe or permanently.)

Mastercook also allows you to scale recipes, so that if you type in a recipe that was written for 8 servings, you can rescale it for 4 or 2 or 1. That's one of the features I love best, since I normally cook for one or two and most recipes are written for four or more.

Cheers, Phoebe

[Pat]

Margie, you can import any recipe (for example recipe search here at Cooking Light, this bulletin board, other food sites such as Epicurious) into MasterCook. It is an easy procedure.

[lanie]

Pardon me - but WHAT is Mastercook????? I keep seeing it pop but haven't a clue what everybody is talking about??????

[lanie]

Now I am totally confused - I went to the sierra/whatever site - downloaded Mastercook Holiday Update or something like that and can't find it and - I am sooooo challenged - what do you mean to pay for it and which am I looking for 4, 5 or 6?????? Sorry to buy you all - but absolutely in the dark and does anybody know what I just downloaded from the sierra site????? Lanie

[Grace]

lanie,

Mastercook is a software program you have to buy. Like when you go to Comp USA or Best Buy and they have the section with computer software in the boxes. That's where you'd find it. You buy it and download it into your computer (I guess you can buy it at the Sierra website too). 4,5 and 6 are the version numbers. Every so often they update the software with new features and add new recipes. Version 6 is the most recent version I think. What you downloaded is probably a free update of holiday recipes for those who already have the software. If you don't have the software to begin with, it won't work. So the bottom line is you're going to have to go and get the MasterCook program from somewhere, and load it into your computer. Hope that helps!

[S]

Phoebe,
Thank you so much. That was what I wanted to hear. Now Mastercook will have to go on my Christmas wish list.