Do You Search for Cooking Recipes Online?

Hong Kong
July 16, 2008 8:53am CST
When you want to try a new recipe, do you search for the recipes online? Or do you have a habit of searching different recipes online because you love cooking? Or you are a person who collect cookbook instead? Do You Change Your Website Template Often?
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@Vladilyich1 (1454)
• Canada
16 Jul 08
I've collected recipes for over 10 years and now have over 200,000 of them in a database. I use it almost exclusively.
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• Hong Kong
17 Jul 08
Wow amazing collection!
• Canada
17 Jul 08
I've got them in about 8 databases in an OLD DOS program called Meal Master (another reason I won't switch to Vista - can't run DOS programs).
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• Canada
17 Jul 08
I meant to mention, because it is DOS based, the reason I have so many databases broken down by region is that the largest who number (integer) you can access in 16-bits is 65535 (2^16-1).
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@anawar (2404)
• United States
16 Jul 08
I'm wondering what you mean by changing your website template? I'm not too savvy when it comes to computers, maybe you can teach me something. I search online for recipes and use www.kraft.com www.allrecipes.com and www.epicurious.com I hate to cook, but I know I have to eat. I need vegetarian recipes, making my life more challenging, trying to find recipes that don't require fifty minutes of prep time! I print off the recipes and keep them in a plastic folder. What's this about a website template? Thanks for helping, if you have the time.
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• Hong Kong
17 Jul 08
See? That was a mistake (the website template). It's for my next discussion but I accidentally copied it here. I suddenly hate that mylot doesn't have the edit button.
@anawar (2404)
• United States
18 Jul 08
Oops. I set up a discussion one day and attached a picture to it by mistake. I didn't know what else to do, so, I back spaced out, without hitting submit. I set up a new discussion without the picture attached and hit submit. Both discussions popped up one with the pic and one without. I still haven't figured that one out.,
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• United States
15 Aug 08
I have looked online for recipes. I like the Taste of Home magazine. I also like the Kraft magazine. I consider myself a simple cook.
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• Hong Kong
16 Aug 08
Most of us don't really like complications when it comes to cooking. But sometimes I find looking at complicated stuff are really inspiring!
@youless (112131)
• Guangzhou, China
17 Jul 08
Sure. Cooking is one of my interests and besides buying the cooking books, I also search the recipes via the net because it's the most convenient way. I like to cook different recipes all over the world. I like to cook something new. When I see a recipe with the dish photo, it will make me hungry. And a foreign recipe will make me excited because I like to try it. I love China
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• Hong Kong
19 Jul 08
Great that you like cooking! I like cooking recipes with photos too!
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
17 Jul 08
Sometimes, but usually I just make stuff up as I go along. Of course, years back I was slavishly devoted to recipes. Now if I make an experiment that turns out really good I put it in my database. Ooooh, thanks for reminding me. I have a new one to record just from today. I had some broth left over from hubby's delicious oxtails, and I put it in the chicken rice along with a couple hot peppers. Now really, I just wanted to use up the stock and did not think that would taste good at all, but it was beyond delicious.
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• Hong Kong
19 Jul 08
Great, actually I like the creativity involved. Recipes are just blueprints.
@vidhyagowri (1973)
• United States
17 Jul 08
I do search recipes online and I ask my grandma or my Mother in Law if i have any doubts in any of those recipes. I have a recipes blog now. I am trying to collect all the vegetarian south Indian recipes in my blog.
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• Hong Kong
19 Jul 08
Nice and interesting! Oh maybe we could exchange links in our cooking sites.
@peavey (16936)
• United States
16 Jul 08
I look for recipes online only when I have something specific I want to make. Most of my recipe searches are for oddball things like rice milk or sourdough starter, though.
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• Hong Kong
17 Jul 08
Yea I guess the choices are too wide over the net that you have to be really specific of what you want to find.
• Canada
16 Jul 08
I don't cook, but my husband does. He has a ccombination of old fashipned ookbooks and recipes that he has collected on line. I there is something we want to prepare but or which we don't hae a reipe, we just hae o type the ame of the dish into a search engine, and we will ind someting every time. He also has a data base with tousands of recipes in it that he's created from his on-line finds over the years.
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@gr8life (6251)
• Malaysia
22 Jul 08
Hello wondericequeen, I love to cook and once awhile, I will look for new recipe but most of the time, I will ask from friends or my family. I seldom buy cook book and maybe once or twice I searched for recipes online.
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@PearlGrace (3171)
• United States
16 Jul 08
Hello wondericequeen. I do occasionally search the web for recipes. Especially when I know I've had a certain food before and want to know how it was prepared. Also, I do love cooking so it's nice just to browse the various cooking and recipe sites. I also collect cookbooks so it can be interesting to look at the various websites for new cookbooks. I don't have my own website at this time.
• Hong Kong
17 Jul 08
Yea, I think that's quite interesting to search and own cookbooks at the same time.
@o2bnocn (2992)
• United States
16 Jul 08
Yes I do search recipes online usually only when I want to try something new though. Most of the time when I want to try to bake or cook something sweet and I want something new to eat. I haven't really searched for any recipe in a really long time though. I do have a couple cookbooks but I barely ever look at them. What I do is when I find a really good recipe I will write it down, I would print it out but I don't have a printer right now. So I will write it down in a notebook and just keep writing the recipes down and keep that has one of my cookbooks. That way whenever I want to make that dish again I will have it already in a cookbook so I don't have to go search for it online again.
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• Hong Kong
17 Jul 08
That's interesting. I like your way of making your own cookbook.
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
22 Jul 08
I search several recipes to see how something new (to me) is made then combine them to make my own healthier lower fat lower sugar version.
• Philippines
16 Jul 08
Yes..I search for recipes on the net & I have tested them already. Esp. now that I'm into baking, I have done brownies & banana cake so far, all copied from the net. It all taste good as I have given my relatives some slice so they can comment on it, whether good or bad, it's ok for me so I can improve it next time... I'm glad it all taste good.
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• United States
16 Jul 08
I do both--I LOVE looking recipes up online, the options are limitless. At the same time, I do enjoy browsing my cookbooks or magazines dedicated to cooking/food/recipes and marking recipe ideas to try. So many good things! ~~
• Hong Kong
17 Jul 08
Right, you get to get recipes for the most interesting dishes online! But at the same time, I love browsing cookbooks.
@cjgrooms (4456)
• United States
16 Jul 08
I do look for recipes online but i also have dozens of cookbooks.I enjoy cooking and like to see whats new out there.
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@risris24 (712)
• United States
16 Jul 08
Whenever I want to try something new or see one I like on the cooking channel then I look it up on www.foodnetwork.com and try the recipe out.