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MasterCook Deluxe 9.0 | 
| From: Valusoft
Category: Software
List Price: $9.99
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Seller: buynowlv
Rating:  146 reviews
Sales Rank: 191
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Deluxe
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8.2 x 2.2
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 10470
Model: 10470
UPC: 755142104702
EAN: 0755142104702
ASIN: B000B7TBNE
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Meal-planning software with 8,000+ recipes and 100s of international recipes | | • | Thorough search capabilities; expert nutritional analysis | | • | Professional tips, cooking for a crowd, and essential cooking techniques | | • | Enjoy 400 savory baking recipes with step-by-step instructions | | • | Print shopping lists for single recipes or entire menus, or download to PDA |
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Product Description
Your Complete Recipe and Nutrition ManagerProduct InformationYour invaluable kitchen resource for every meal - from simple tosensational! MasterCook Deluxe 9.0 lets you spend less time planning mealsand more time enjoying them! In today's busy world it's a challenge to find time to create new anddelicious meals for you and your family. Now with MasterCook Deluxe 9.0 life inthe kitchen just got a whole lot easier. With more than 8000 family-tested recipesMasterCook 9.0 is a powerfulkitchen tool. Plan meals learn professional techniques personalizeand print cookbooks and more. With the MasterCook easy-to-use interface youcan become the chef you want to be. Just because you're short ontime your meals don't have to be short on taste! Plan yourmenus instantly with thousands of recipes learn time-saving tips and help keep your family healthy.Product Features 8000+ Delicious Recipes 180 Kid Approved Recipes 600+ Desserts 177 Grill Recipes 400+ Recipes Under 20 Minutes Everyday Convenience Download Recipes and Shopping Lists to Your PDA Helpful Meal and Menu Planner Recipes for Special Dietary Needs Easy Internet Import Tool Consolidate and Manage Your Favorite Recipes from the Web Personal Nutritionist - Get Expert Nutritional Analysis on Every Recipe Product HighlightsSpend Less Time Planning Meals & More TimeEnjoying Them!Get your fill of 8000+ delicious recipes.Select from mouth-watering appetizers delicious entrees and tantalizingdesserts. Even experience the flavors of the world with hundreds ofinternational recipes.Menu planning has never been easier!Plan your menu one meal or one week in advance.Find the perfect recipe!Search for recipes instantly based on ingredient food type cook time and more.Quick & Easy!Prepare hundreds of recipes in less than 20 minutes!Never forget an ingredient again!Print out shop
Amazon.com Product 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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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 146
 Solid, but not without faults. July 9, 2010
MagnoliaSouth
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this for the low price ($7 at the time of this writing) and for the fact that it has the ability to allow me to add recipes to menus and then make a shopping list from that. The shopping list is really my primary reason for purchasing it.
Overall, I'm satisfied. It does what I need it to do with little fuss, despite the lists below. I'm always overly nit-picky, so take what I say with a grain of salt. It's more to let potential buyers know the full story. If I really felt angry about it, I wouldn't rate it with so many stars. I
What I Like
* Categories can be used in place of tags. LOVE THEM!
* Easy menu creation.
* Easy shopping list creation.
* Copying/pasting ingredients (via Import Assistant) is easy, so long as you understand that text MUST be highlighted to work. That's not in the instructions and I can't imagine why either.
* If you enter Price information on your groceries, it will give you a price estimate.
Annoyances
* You cannot customize abbreviations. I prefer my own, thanks.
* I don't like the way you cannot add a "2 T + 1 t" ingredient amount. On the other hand, my workaround is to use "7 t" then under "preparation" I put "(2 T + 1 t). Still, it should allow for that.
* Along the same lines you cannot add 2-3 T. You can choose either "2 T" or "3 T" only. As a workaround for that, and to avoid my shopping list making me short handed, I pick the most amount, just in case. I'd rather have too much than not enough.
* Import Assistant does not recognize "1 (15 oz) can Diced Tomatoes" and reformats it to "1 can Diced Tomatoes (15 oz)". I have to manually change this each and every time, but thankfully I don't use that many cans anymore.
* I am not happy with the "Embed Recipe" option. As an example, I do not use cream of X soup but instead I make my own. I can embed a recipe as an "ingredient" where it will say, "1 cream of X soup recipe". Sounds good so far because it will even add all of the cream soup ingredients to the shopping list (very helpful feature). The problem is that if I print the recipe, it ONLY says "1 cream of X soup recipe" instead of printing the whole cream soup recipe as well as the recipe it is an ingredient of. I would prefer that it attach the entire text of the embedded recipe.
* The Yields should calculate what I need, for me. After all, computers are designed to do the work for us. Let me give an example. If a recipe calls for "1 c. banana, mashed" and my Yields say "1 med banana = 1/3 c. mashed" then my shopping list should automatically list "3 med bananas". I shouldn't have to do this manually, but I unfortunately do. (See Tips below).
* It is no longer supported, though for me I could care less. This would be an annoyance for some, so here it is. For me, so long as it works, I'm good. If it doesn't, I only lost $7 and it was worth the gamble.
Downright Frustrating
* While there is one "category template", you must have it set up perfectly the way you want it - the first time you ever create a cookbook - because if you add a cookbook later, they are not applied to all of your cookbooks. All cookbooks must have the new category added manually. This is a serious waste of my time and I cannot fathom why it was done this way to begin with. I think this is probably the number one thing that annoys me most. (See Tips below).
* I cannot import my own Yields and my own Price list. I have my own already entered in a spreadsheet on Google Docs and had they provided me a way to import them, I could use them. However I have so many entries that there is NO way I'm going to go through and enter each manually, one-by-one, because this would take months. No kidding. Also, if Yields would actually work on my shopping list, then it would be worth my time... perhaps. Since it doesn't, why bother?
* I personally hate Adobe's Acrobat (it's the worst piece of coded software next to Internet Explorer) and it tells you that it won't work if you don't download it, which is absolute nonsense. Users should be able to choose what pdf reader they want to use. I use Foxit Reader and don't appreciate being told I have to download something that I absolutely hate. Besides, it works fine without it altogether.
* The same goes for Quicktime. I use VLC and like that one better, thanks. However in this case, the videos are definitely inaccessible unless I use VLC to navigate to the directory and view them manually, provided I can even figure out the file name.
Tips on Use
* Yields: Because it does not auto-calculate yields, when I enter a recipe like the banana example, I write it, "3 med bananas, mashed (1 c.)". Now my shopping list will tell me precisely how many I'll need and if I'm not sure if I made a mistake, I have the measurement there for my reference. Note though that "(1 c.) will not print on the shopping list. That's strictly a using-it-during-cooking-the-recipe reference item.
* Categories: Don't make a lot of cookbooks (I learned the hard way), instead make a lot of categories to include cuisines and flavors. I no longer use the cuisine entry as it is too limiting in my opinion. This makes searching much, MUCH faster. Sample categories are: Camping, Garlicky, Spicy (or Hot), Quick, Easy, Finger Foods, Month (for fruits/vegetables in season - I have each month as a category so I can get them cheaper; an example for Asparagus is April and May), 5 Ingredient, Heirloom (old family recipes), Precious, Dry Mixes, Seasonings and so forth. Instead of Holidays be specific, Christmas, Thanksgiving, July 4th, whatever. You can create and select as many as you want.
* Back up everything frequently AND before importing. I've read the reviews of some naive folks here and feel the need to say that if you lose your information, you only have yourself to blame. The #1 computer cardinal rule is to always, always, ALWAYS back up precious files. If you lose it, then don't blame the software. All software and all computers will crash eventually, cease to work or become outdated and no longer usable. Learn it, live by it. MyDrobox is a free option to keep a backup off your computer so you'll never lose it. If you have trouble, backup, do a scan disk and defrag, uninstall, reinstall. If files become corrupted, then that's that. Keep a text backup (you'll have to export manually) of all precious files as well. I make a category (as noted above) for those special recipes.
* I have nothing at all to do with this, but try Googling "Mastercook Pam's Tips" and download the "cookbook" which is loaded with her tips. It's not as outdated as it says it is and is moderately helpful.
Again, it is good for its price. It's not the "king" as a very old review (over 5 years) claims, but it's a decent piece of software and worth the money.
MasterCook will work with Windows 7 64bit June 4, 2010
Craig Weems (Houston, TX USA)
I have just installed MC 8.0 in an HP Windows 7 64bit machine and expect that 32 bit OS can also be installed. Since MC 9.0 is not a big jump from MC 8.0 it is reasonable that it will work the same. The software will not load without help. The problem is that the setup application (the installer) is not compatible with the Win7/64 OS. Thankfully there is a tool that will get you over that hump as the remainder of the software files install without incident.
I originally got it to work with Vista and when I upgraded to Win7/32 it kept working. A new laptop with Win7/64 forced me to find a new solution.
Here is how I did it:
1. Put your disk in your CD/DVD drive and just ignore any dialog boxes that try to help (press the "x").
2. Go to the search window on the start pane (the Windows logo in the round blue button, lower left) and type "compat", I know that is not a complete word those letters alone will bring up an icon with "Run programs made for previous versions of Windows". Click on that link and another pane will appear titled "Program Compatibility" click "Next".
3. It will search for a while and come up with a list of programs but you only want to click on the top item "Not Listed". A new pane will appear with a browsing window and click on the "Browse" button.
4. Browse to your CD/DVD drive, it should say Mastercook as the drive title, scroll down to the application named "Setup" and select.
5. There should be some churning for a while but the MasterCook installer panel should come up. From that point it is a normal install.
6. There are some intermediate screens but you don't do anything but click bast them.
7. Once installed it acts normal with no special trick to launch.
7. I did not get the Import Assistant to work but then I didn't work on it too hard. Will revise review once I get it to work.
 mastercook program May 16, 2010
L. Sauter (Bradenton, fl)
This is a good program but I prefer the older version that is easier to search for recipes or to search recipes by ingredients.
 Technical support May 3, 2010
Rene (Nevada)
Technical support for this product is non-existent. They refer you to the web site of many other complaints or suggestions, but never address your particular problem. I have used other versions of MasterCook for years without a problem. Someone needs to address specific problems, not just generic suggestions. I would not buy this product again!
Enjoyable program for neophyte cook April 30, 2010
J. Lewis
Development of the product appears to be languishing but it's still a great product for keeping track of recipes and accumulating recipes off the web. It's a steal for the price! The webgrabber does not work well in Windows 7 but RecipeFox, an add-on for the FireFox browser offers greater functionality and works fine to capture recipes off the web into MasterCook. The shopping list feature could be more intelligent but is a very handy feature to lessen the anxieity of "do I have all the ingredients I need?". The abilities to search on, categorize and rate recipes is very handy.
To me, tackling a printed cookbook is about as daunting as reading the Bible cover-to-cover. MasterCook is like a Google search engine, making the vast complexity of cooking accessible to searching and bookmarking in as many ways and dimensions as you'd like. offering a personalized cooking experience and diary.
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