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MacGourmet is a recipe management application that allows users to create, edit, and scale new recipes or import recipes from their favorite websites, then share them via email, Facebook, and Twitter. For more core functions, try MacGourmet Deluxe.
Features:
Features:
- Chef’s view for distraction free cooking
- Add images to your recipes and to the steps, as well as to your Beer, Wine, and Cheese notes
- Use the Ingredient search or let MacGourmet suggest a recipe for you
- Free cloud account for storing and syncing on Mariner Cloud
What's New
Version 4.0.6:
- Fixed a few specific causes of a crash when syncing data to and from the sync server
- Fixed a problem that prevented lists from being renamed under OS X 10.7
- Fixed a problem that would cause the app to sometimes display only the menubar, and that would also cause the sidebar to display with "TBD"
- Fixed the MasterCook (MX2 or MXP) importer - note that images are not imported
- Updated Featured Content
- Added new sidebar icons
- Changed sidebar font to avoid clipping of character descenders
- Updated Retina display icons
- Removed saveur.com from the list of supported sites - changes on the saveur.com server prevented the app from being to import directly (note that you can still import saveur.com recipes via clippings)
Version 4.0.6:
- Fixed a few specific causes of a crash when syncing data to and from the sync server
- Fixed a problem that prevented lists from being renamed under OS X 10.7
- Fixed a problem that would cause the app to sometimes display only the menubar, and that would also cause the sidebar to display with "TBD"
- Fixed the MasterCook (MX2 or MXP) importer - note that more...
Requirements
Intel, OS X 10.7 or later
Intel, OS X 10.7 or later
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| Downloads:35,920 |
| Version Downloads:199 |
| Type:Home Personal : Cooking |
| License:Demo |
| Date:18 Feb 2014 |
| Platform:Intel 64 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price: $24.95 |
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MacGourmet is a recipe management application that allows users to create, edit, and scale new recipes or import recipes from their favorite websites, then share them via email, Facebook, and Twitter. For more core functions, try MacGourmet Deluxe.
Features:
Features:
- Chef’s view for distraction free cooking
- Add images to your recipes and to the steps, as well as to your Beer, Wine, and Cheese notes
- Use the Ingredient search or let MacGourmet suggest a recipe for you
- Free cloud account for storing and syncing on Mariner Cloud
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alvindarkness reviewed on 19 Nov 2013
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Willowdemayo reviewed on 09 Jul 2012
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So, you can buy a bundle (Deluxe) with everything: Mealplan, Cookbook and Nutrition, or, if you just want a simpler product, buy MacGourmet from macgourmet.com and add a plug-in, or not, it’s up to you.
http://macgourmet.com/faq/deluxe
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Freedman reviewed on 07 Apr 2011
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Emotpix reviewed on 29 Dec 2009
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Corkroom reviewed on 28 Nov 2009
Some issues are quite frustrating. The shopping list is often incapable of adding ingredients of different units correctly. For example, if one recipe calls for 200 g of flour, and another for an ounce, the shopping list totals these to 201 g. Perhaps a user-defined unit equivalence list would be useful, or at least a list of what MacGourmet's pre-defined conversions are.
The chef view is useless. Many recipe instructions refer to the ingredients for quantities, but the chef view forces you to scroll up to the top. Not good when you have a handful of raw chicken. The chef view really needs a split view to allow simultaneous viewing of ingredients and instructions.
The shopping lists could be formatted more intelligently, with page breaks at logical spots, such as between shops. Alternatively, user-defined page breaks would be helpful. Also, depending on the name of ingredients listed in different recipes, the shopping list can produce separate listings for flour, plain flour, and flour (plain), etc. Some other programs I have used also allow user-defined ingredients. While this is more fiddly, this option prevents this confusion.
UI issues are abundant. For example, the default "OK" button is often highlighted, but pressing "return" on the keyboard does not click it, as expected under OS X. Also, command-~ normally switches windows, but this does not work in MacGourmet. This prevents comparison of recipes.
Finally, I'm not really sure, but I couldn't find a way to create smart recipe lists based on preparation/cooking times. Given that this is an editable field in recipes, it would be useful to search by this! Again, since the developers do not reply to emails, I'm not sure if there is a solution.
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I'm one person, who still does all the development and email support. The volume of email doesn't always allow me to reply to every individual feature request, but every request gets logged and evaluated for future updates.
I also have to wade through the ridiculous amount of daily spam that an email address that has been around for over 5 years gets every day. If you never got a reply to your specific issues, trying to send it again and using the "Send Feedback" command in the Help menu to send the it will usually help it get through the noise.
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This morning I downloaded and started playing with Pantry, a free app to track what's in your kitchen, create shopping lists, sync to the cloud and there's an iPhone app you can buy for 2.00 to download lists to your phone. I'm not going to keep it, but I can see some potential there, it's just missing some deal breaking features and it feels like a work in progress.
I've also found a website: supercook.com where you create an account, add in the stuff in your pantry and it will find recipes based on those ingredients. Excellently cool, but you can bog it down by adding too much stuff like too many kinds of cheese, too many spices and condiments. You have to remove items to winnow down the results. It works best with just a basic set of items. And you can get some bizarre results: based on my ingredients, I searched for a first course and dog bones appeared as #1 in the results followed by butterscotch filling. Now anyone with any common sense knows butterscotch filling is a main course and dog bones go with the after-dinner liquors. I mean, really!
Anyone see where I'm going?
I have a dream.
The absolute all-time, full-on, crazy cool cooking app in the entire known universe!
Step 1: Food: Add in the stuff you have (ooh, with a barcode scanner that uses your iSight camera and connects to an all-knowing database in the sky, I have a dream.) Expiration dates a must. (If I believe in it, the baking powder will work on the sheer force of my will! Wait, those raisins are HOW old?) I'll add dates myself, I'm not a total slacker.
Step 2: Recipes: Add your own or grab off the web. (Done. It's called MacGourmet. Dreams can come true.)
Step 3: Use Step 1 with Step 2 to find recipes you do have that use the ingredients you already have or (wait, it gets better)
Step 4: Search for recipes you don't have with the ingredients you do. (Galactically cool.)
Step 5: Shopping lists. Two kinds: What I need to restock from Step 1 because I'm running out and/or What I need to make recipes from Step 3 or Step 4. (That's it, I can die happy.)
Who's with me?
Anyway, thanks to:
Apple for the laptop and
MacGourmet Deluxe 1.2 or
MacGourmet 2.4 with
Nutrition 1.3.0
Cookbook 1.1.0
Meal Plan 1.1.0
or whatever goofy nomenclature the developers use for letting me dream.
And no, I'm not sharing Bubbie's Brisket recipe.
MB814 rated on 27 Dec 2013
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Mark Burgess rated on 21 Dec 2013
AmandaELowe rated on 18 Nov 2013
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Willowdemayo rated on 09 Jul 2012
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Haliomaster rated on 31 Jan 2012
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JohnKHeath rated on 29 Oct 2011
Charles Smith rated on 11 Dec 2010