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SousChef is a dynamic recipe resource for home cooks and aspiring chefs alike. Most cooking software stops at organizing recipes. SousChef helps you cook, start to finish. Find a recipe, cook it, modify it and share it with friends & family -- all in one application.
Unlike other cooking software, SousChef accesses an online cloud database made up of all other users' recipes allowing users to quickly find new and delicious recipes. No more trips to the store to get that one missing ingredient either -- SousChef ranks recipe results based on what's in your pantry, or offers
Unlike other cooking software, SousChef accesses an online cloud database made up of all other users' recipes allowing users to quickly find new and delicious recipes. No more trips to the store to get that one missing ingredient either -- SousChef ranks recipe results based on what's in your pantry, or offers
What's New
Version 1.5.2:
- Fixed a bug where purchases could not be made in the in-app store.
- Fixed a crash at launch on Leopard.
Requirements
- Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later
- 1024x768 resolution screen or larger
- Mac OS X 10.6 or greater for Dropbox integration
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| Downloads:11,394 |
| Version Downloads:1,046 |
| Type:Home & Personal : Cooking |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:23 Sep 2011 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $30.00 |
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SousChef is a dynamic recipe resource for home cooks and aspiring chefs alike. Most cooking software stops at organizing recipes. SousChef helps you cook, start to finish. Find a recipe, cook it, modify it and share it with friends & family -- all in one application.
Unlike other cooking software, SousChef accesses an online cloud database made up of all other users' recipes allowing users to quickly find new and delicious recipes. No more trips to the store to get that one missing ingredient either -- SousChef ranks recipe results based on what's in your pantry, or offers suggestions for substitutes.
Whether you're throwing dinner together at the last minute, or want to experiment with a favorite family recipe, SousChef handles the details so you can simply cook!
Also, SousChef offers a grocery list function, so you can create shopping lists from your favorite recipes!
Unlike other cooking software, SousChef accesses an online cloud database made up of all other users' recipes allowing users to quickly find new and delicious recipes. No more trips to the store to get that one missing ingredient either -- SousChef ranks recipe results based on what's in your pantry, or offers suggestions for substitutes.
Whether you're throwing dinner together at the last minute, or want to experiment with a favorite family recipe, SousChef handles the details so you can simply cook!
Also, SousChef offers a grocery list function, so you can create shopping lists from your favorite recipes!
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Mhoutman reviewed on 03 Sep 2011
Contacted the developer on a problem related to not syncing recipe photo's between devices. He seems in a deep sleep as I got no response after 4 days so I ditched the trial version.
Really sorry, nut I strongly believe that good developer support increases the overall joy of using Mac OS and iOS app.
btw the latest version is 1.5.1
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The program is full of bugs which have never been addressed by the developers, almost no new features have been added in the last 2 years, and it now crashes over 50% of the time when used in Lion.. It is very disappointing, as it originally showed a lot of promise and could have been developed into a first class application if given some or any support! :o(
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karadahl reviewed on 16 Dec 2010
Vallwardt reviewed on 27 Nov 2010
Scottg_ reviewed on 11 Feb 2010
At first, I found that the recipe import (mostly from plain text or html files) was slow and unintuitive, after importing a few recipes I found it much easier.
For me, the big selling points are that SousChef is an attractive way to organize my recipes, attach notes and photos to remind myself about the recipe, and the big screen view for when I am actually cooking.
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N. Silva reviewed on 22 Apr 2009
While it has a clever recipe import feature, it makes a lot of mistakes when identifying ingredients. "Kosher" is not an ingredient, darnit (it's "Kosher salt"). When a recipe calls for garlic cloves, I don't want to see "cloves" added to my shopping list. No matter how many times I corrected it, it never learned. I got tired of correcting every ingredient and so was never able to use the shopping list feature.
I have around 150 recipes in Yojimbo, but the process of importing them and correcting the ingredients took so long that I gave up.
The program also caused me to lose data in another program, TextMate, because of its Services shortcut key (Shift-Cmd-R). I accidentally pressed that key combination while TextMate had a file dialog open. SousChef appeared unexpectedly and TextMate locked up.
If I was starting a new recipe library from scratch, I would probably give SousChef another try. I liked the large-print display that I could easily read when my computer was sitting on the other side of the kitchen. The recipe search function was intriguing. It was fun to see what recipes other people have in their libraries (of course you can turn off sharing if you want to). I could not get the speech recognition to work, but I think that is a problem with my Mac, not with SousChef. It's a great idea if it works as advertised.
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I use metric (International ) unit system, something that SousChef can't handle.
As so, this app will be pretty worthless for me and pretty much for all here in continental Europe.
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We've added metric support and improved the import parser a lot in this release. We've also fixed some crashes in the recipe editor and improved the stability of several other parts of the app.
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taylorbanks reviewed on 20 Dec 2008
Search does not do partial text searches, so for example:
if I have two recipes, one of which calls for "buffalo stew meat" and another of which calls for "buffalo or bison," searching for "buffalo" yields no results.
Thus, you must know the /exact/ name of any ingredient you want to search for, and since there is no component to normalize ingredient names, I can't effecively search through my own (or online) recipes. In an email, the developer did indicate that he would look into this for a future version, but in the meantime, sadly, I'll have to resort to another tool.
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Thanks for the feedback and just to reiterate, this is something we're working on.
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When you're working on entering a recipe with over 10 ingredients and steps, it's very easy not to notice when one goes missing. For this alone I have to rate this application a 3/5. Another issue I found when creating a grocery list, I typed up the whole thing and clicked Print. The pinwheel spun for about 30 minutes before I force quit the application. When I re-launched, none of the items in my grocery list had been saved and ended up re-typing up the whole list in Text Edit.
The online portion works pretty well, and it's a great way to find new recipes and share some of your favourites, just as long as you manage to enter them in correctly.
To be honest, because this database is largely (if not all) community driven, with the amount of problems I've experienced entering in my own recipes, I can only imagine that other people may have run in to the same thing and maybe didn't notice, and therefore there could be recipes published in the online database with ingredients and steps missing.