AllRecipes

Easy and fun recipes for all occasions - This simple and navigable site contains hundreds of thousands of searchable recipes submitted by home cooks (totally doable, even for the kitchen-challenged). You can even search for recipes using specific ingredients if you have random leftover ingredients that you would like to use up.

Very cool is the option of scaling the original recipe yield for the number of servings. They even have a nutritional breakdown for each recipe, a section on similar recipes, downloadable cookbooks (their summer picnic cookbook is pretty good), and an entire section on budget-friendly recipes. I'm a fan of their shopping list feature, where you can save recipes in your recipe box and the site creates a shopping list organized by category (e.g. Produce, meat, dairy, etc.). How convenient.

The best part about this site is that the recipes are reviewed and rated by users, and a sizable proportion of them have creative modification suggestions (to make the end result tastier, healthier, or even better, both!).

I didn't even like lemon bars until I tried these (check out the modification suggested by the second reviewer - it's best with freshly squeezed lemon juice): http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Bake-Sale-Lemon-Bars/Detail.aspx

What started as a great site to get recipes and share recipes has gone to pot. Unfortunately, it's a long simmering pot. The good has been cooked out of the site. The ability to modify and save recipes disappeared long ago. The dinner spinner feature never really worked. The final straw was moving all my favorites into various collections with no input from myself. And on top of that, they removed the ability to search my favorite recipes. I've got thousands saved. Trying to figure out where they put it was like trying to find where the grocer thinks that one item you're looking for should be in his store. What makes sense to him, doesn't to you. When I contacted them about that, they said that the current iteration of the site doesn't support search and they MIGHT bring it back, but it wasn't in the immediate plans. A total disregard for their base. If Meredith were a politician, they'd be voted out. Time to move on. I printed all my favorites to PDF files. I can now search for them easily on my PC. Having Adobe DC Pro, I can also edit them. Such a shame that such a great site was left on too long to the point of a serious reduction.

When will your technical issue be resolved? I have not been able to access my recipes since Nov. 2022.

That was the best feature along with ability to great collections. Not only were both removed but all of my notes. Am looking for another recipe system.

Allrecipes has really messed up. Anyone ever try to sort recipes? Since '[categories' were added, I have been fighting with the system to find stuff. These folks cannot even alphabetize the categories not less the recipes within. Each time I try to search with the same criteria I come up with items not in the original sort, out of order (not alphabetic when specified by title), or not relevant to specific search item. Example: Chicken Soup yields Chicken Stroganoff. Go figure. I hate this site now.

Sent email to customer support - get the same nonsense back about javascript and cookies. I wonder who on earth is doing the programming? Something as simple as sorting is beyond the staff. Cannot sort the collection names created when you save a recipe - they are displayed exactly in the order created - last created, first on list. Cannot sort within a category. And my biggest pet peeve is not being able to find recipes saved prior to when they added collections. Printing with changes is a problem.

They need to drop trying to be a social network site and return to what worked. The pretty pictures just clutter my screen. A thumbnail in a list would be perfect. This site is SLOW. It is poorly designed using outdated technology.

I repeat: I HATE THIS SITE NOW!