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mastercook deluxe 8.0

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a horrible program,it is not user friendly. For a recipe program pictures are very helpful. Whoever thought picture weren't necessary for a recipe was an idiot. I wish I had known this before purchasing this product. Waste of time and money

It looks like I am going to delete it and reinstall MC3.0

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: June 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I finally decided to buy the new edition because of XP and the nutritional information for fats. I love MC 3.0. I hate this one. It would get a 1 star except I like the web feature and the fact I can see the fats otherwise it is a loser in editions.

I have to use two to three steps more for everything and look thru things that I really shouldn't have to do simple chores that I could do in one click with Sierra's version. It also seems buggy. I entered my categories and suddenly when I opened the last time, the template is gone which means I have to redo the entire thing. It is bulky without very good organization. I will say that it is pretty but that is about it. It is coming out a loser and I am starting to look for my 3.0 which is old but fast and more reliable than this.

I use to swear by MC. Course I use to swear by Netscape too. It doesn't mean I can't change my choices. I just wish it was as good as Amazon's service in getting it to me.

Ok I edited this because I had my old MC3 disk shatter. That is another review of a different product. There was no way I wanted MC8 back. I bought MC5. NOT bad at all. It is not as bright an interface. MC8 is much brighter in color causing eye problems The Interface stays very much the same but the Sierra product functions much smoother and with less clicks than the Valuesoft 8.0. MC8 had more problems with crashes and as I said lost all the categories. It also caused major problems importing them. MC5 does the job MC8 claims it does and does fats and imports from the web. The MC5 version does not cause the keyboard/mouse conflict that I had with MC8 and cured by uninstalling. Can I get a -2 for MC8 in stars now?

Please give us back old Sierra product

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 16
Date: June 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I can't imagine a groups of software writers putting out a product like this. It is slow, buggy, difficult to organize recipes. I spent a lot of time collecting recipes but they are so hard to find in this edition, the whole program is worthless. To those that give this a good product review, you didn't know the old Mastercook 3.0.

bad software

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: July 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this software after doing much research and it worked fine for the first couple of times I opened it. On the 3rd time using the software, the program would not save lists (and deleted all the information I've put in) and started to get error pop-up windows. I've uninstalled the software and reinstalled it and had the same problem. I've contacted the manufacturing company and their opinion is that the computer has a problem. This seems to be the usual answer, when they don't know what the problem is. This software is aweful and will cause a lot of frustration.

Not great software

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have had both the 7.0 and 8.0 versions of this software, and was duly unimpressed with both. It is loaded with LOUSY recipes, the search function is awkward, the software runs slowly, backups are unreliable and, the thing that irritated me most, the nutritional analysis of recipes was always WAY off. Either it didn't recognize half the ingredients in the recipe or it was just plain old unable to calculate the values. I thought that perhaps the 8.0 version would have worked out the bugs from 7.0, but I was wrong. I just purchased Cook'n software and so far it appears to be far superior.

Good as a cookbook, not as a recipe organizer

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 32 / 33
Date: June 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I purchased the MasterCook 8 software in part because of the great reviews it received and its PDA

support, but it isn't quite as good for me as it seems to be for most others. The overall design is

very nice, and it looks better than any other cookbook program that I've tried, and the recipes

look delicious. Unfortunately, it's not the program to use if you have a lot of recipes to import.

I've tried importing Meal-Master recipes, plain text recipes and even recipes exported then

reimported by MasterCook 8, but even though the recipes get imported all of the categories

disappear! Not only that, but there doesn't seem to be a standard set of categories for new

cookbooks -- you have to make your own category template. Another big issue for me is eliminating

duplicate recipes; MasterCook 8 checks for duplicates when you first import recipes, but there's no

way to simply check for duplicates in a current cookbook.

All in all, if you don't have many recipes of your own and you aren't inclined to download

thousands of new ones from the Internet the way I did then this is a good program. If, however, you

have a large collection of recipes or want to build one, this is not the best program with which to

organize them. I switched to AccuChef, which isn't as polished in some ways, but its much better at

organizing my recipes.

To Much Work!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: August 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Granted this is about the only software on the market that semi gives you what you need, but it takes alot of time to learn. I actually had to print out all the help notes, and i'm an experienced user. The shopping list is really worthless. You need to write the recipes exactly in the same wording, so it understands what items to add to your shopping list. When I first got it I spent hours loading and re-loading the software because it would freeze up and just quit. What's with that? I did like the "pantry" feature, but when you want to buy two different sizes of the same item, trying to figure out the ounces takes major time. I think Valusoft needs to listen to their customers before releasing their product. But the recipes are a hugh benefit.That's the only reason I didn't return it....

Very few pictures!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 47
Date: January 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It has a lot of recipes, just very few pictures of them!

Great Program/ Not complete Package

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: August 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The program is wonderful but it took me much longer than I though it would to learn. It would have been helpful if I had known this CD was not a package and would not include any sort of instruction booklet. I would have spent the extra money to get the CD and guide book all at once if I knew I wasn't going to get even a 1 page basic guide.

Good enough

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: October 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have been using MasterCook since version 4. I love the ability to get recipes from the internet. And I like the added field for the URL source. Other than that not much has changed from version 6. The search function is still clunky. And I still don't like the recipe display window where you have to scroll down to see ingredients and instructions, not very useful when am cooking and reading from the screen. It should look more like the print preview screen.

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