Sierra MasterCook

Pros: Well organized & lots of great recipes!
Cons: takes a little practice.

Sierra MasterCook 5.0 is a wonderful piece of software that every cook should consider purchasing! You can find new recipes in it, save and store your own favorites, and gather nutritional information on all of those recipes you were brought up on.
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Pros: organization, menu planning, shopping lists
Cons: time consuming to learn

I bought Master Cook after beginning Once A Month Cooking. I was finding all kinds of recipes and at first was printing everything. It got time consuming and costly with the print cartriges. I needed to be able to organize the recipes, plan menus, and...

Pros: Easy to use, comes with hundreds of recipes
Cons: Haven't found any yet

I'd put off purchasing recipe management software for quite a while, since all my recipes are stored in various MS Excel and Word files and I didn't think I needed a separate program. However, when I recently saw the new MasterCook 5.0 Food & Wine...

Pros: Searchable, versatile, easy to use once you've mastered the basics
Cons: Memory hog, not easy to learn

I put off buying Mastercook for a long time. After all, I already had hundreds of cookbooks, and a bulging recipe card box. That was before I got involved in some cooking mailing lists, and my file of recipes on my computer started bursting at the...

Pros: easy to use, stores all your recipes in categories so they are easy to find
Cons: none so far

I have always loved to collect recipes, but never knew what to do with them. I belong to several recipe exchange lists via email, and get lots of great recipes. I would usually just print them out and then put them in a 3 ring binder. Well, last month I...

Pros: the support and extras are excellent
Cons: no crockpot cookbook

Master Cook 5.0 Deluxe is great. I had other cookbook programs but this is by far the best. There are over 12000 recipes included. There are many cookbooks included within the program, quick fixes, casual dining, bakery goods, bartender drinks,...

Pros: well organized with many valuable and time saving features.
Cons: Can be a bit difficult to learn.

Having made many on-line friends that shared my same interest, I started collecting recipes that were economical and nutritious. My problem was keeping them organized and at hand. I had been using software that was a dos program and would not work in...

Pros: It has some new features that are good
Cons: The old one worked just fine.....

I've been using Master Cook for several years. I've recommended it to friends, and been extremely happy with the way it managed my recipes, and the ease of entering them into the database. Then, I got Master Cook 5.0. Eagerly I installed it on my...

Pros: Organized, includes over 1000 recipes, room to type in your own recipes, figure out nutritional info., print recipes, share over the internet, etc.
Cons: Smaller than desired windows on screen, graphics could be better...

As some of you know, I am a newlywed. I was brought up in a home where my mother cooked everything under the sun. In fact, we almost rarely ever went out to eat. I can remember countless times when my mother would assure me that her home is not a...

Pros: Many recipes, user friendly, great to get you organized
Cons: Search is slow unless you limit to only a few cookbooks

I had decided to by a cooking program to manage recipes, shopping lists & meal planning. As a mom who works full time, it's a must. I'm not by nature an organized person; I have to work at it. So I bought Cook 'n 99 at Sam's Club for a great...

Pros: great recipes
Cons: takes time to get use to

I started to hate cooking! Cooking the same stuff all the time, trying to make food with a good nutritional value. I came across Master Cook 5.0 and knew after I first installed it that I had a great find.

Very easy installation, lots of...

Pros: Terrific wealth of recipes, and an amazing way of organizing them.
Cons: The search feature is slow if searching through all recipes. The manual could have been better-written.

Not knowing how to cook, the food world was very daunting to me. I'm very glad that I found MasterCook 5.0! I've progressed from burning and over-cooking things, to managing meals that my mother is impressed with!

Mastercook combines recipes...

Pros: User Friendly, Allows you to be creative
Cons: Importing needs a freeware program when recipes aren't in Mastercook format

When I decided about a year ago to learn to cook and stop eating out all the time, I discovered a cooking site on AOL. All the writers raved about this software and its ease of use so when I saw it on sale at Cosco for $9.99 I grabbed it up and figured...

Pros: Lots of fun features
Cons: Read the instrutions before entering recipes

I bought MasterCook 5.0 when I started cooking for a month at a time and needed an easy way to combine recipes into huge shopping lists. This program fit my needs very well. I am amazed by all the things it can do. Now I even find myself running to my...

Pros: Great for gourmets or beginners
Cons: none that I can see

I am a cookbook junky! Anything with recipes catches my attention and MasterCook caught me big time. So many recipes (some I KNOW I'll never use) to try out. The ease of use was one of the selling factors of this software. I can even email recipes to...