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MasterCook Deluxe 9.0
MasterCook Deluxe 9.0
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List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $15.13
You Save: $4.86 (24%)
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars(based on 95 reviews)
Sales Rank: 56
Category: Software

Publisher: Valusoft
Studio: Valusoft
Brand: ValuSoft
Label: Valusoft
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 8 x 2

MPN: 755142104702
Model: 10470
UPC: 755142104702
EAN: 0755142104702
ASIN: B000B7TBNE

Release Date: August 30, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 3-4 business days

Features:
  • Meal-planning software with 8,000+ recipes and 100s of international recipes
  • Thorough search capabilities; expert nutritional analysis
  • Professional tips, cooking for a crowd, and essential cooking techniques
  • Enjoy 400 savory baking recipes with step-by-step instructions
  • Print shopping lists for single recipes or entire menus, or download to PDA

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
MasterCook Deluxe 9.0 is the easy way to expand your meal time experience. It's tough to come up with new ideas for dinner, but with this list of recipes you're never short on ideas. Most of these dishes can be prepared in less than 20 minutes! Working in the kitchen just got a whole lot easier. Real culinary experts give advice in step-by-step instructional videos

Amazon.com Product Description
Whether you're a cooking pro or a novice, MasterCook Deluxe 9.0 will make the time you spend in kitchen more enjoyable and efficient, and the results will definitely be more delicious. At the heart of MasterCook Deluxe 9.0 is over 8,000 recipes, including appetizers, entrees, desserts, grill recipes, and even kid-friendly foods. The program will help you find the perfect recipe for the occasion, plan and shop for ingredients, and learn new techniques in the process.


Find recipes and filter by dietary needs, cuisine type, ratings, and more.

Finding recipes is simple as you can search based on ingredients, food types, cook time, and more. And if you're short on time, there are over 400 recipes that can be prepared in under 20 minutes. You can browse through categories to get ideas for future dishes. If you have dietary restrictions, recipes can be filtered for low carbohydrate, low sodium, low fat, gluten free, Kosher, and lactose free dishes, and searches can even be customized based on your needs. The recipe scaling feature will instantly adjust recipes depending on the occasion, whether you are cooking for five or 50. Once you are ready to head to the grocery store, you can print out shopping lists for single recipes or for entire menus to take with you. And if you have a PDA, it's easy to download lists to your handheld.


Print out shopping lists or download to your handheld.

MasterCook Deluxe 9.0 allows you to import recipes from the Web to add to the database. You can use the program to manage your entire recipe collection by entering your own favorite recipes from family, friends, magazines, or other cookbooks, to have everything in one central database. Once recipes are in the program, you can add notes and photos, marking favorites or including pictures of your attempts for future reference.

MasterCook Deluxe 9.0 has your health in mind too, with several tools to ensure you're eating healthy. Nutritional analysis tools track fats, carbs, calories, cholesterol, and more. The program will show you healthier alternatives to popular ingredients, so you can see how substitutions will alter nutritional values.

Included are several helpful instructional titles to help you learn to cook like a pro. With step-by-step instructional video from culinary experts, you can eliminate guesswork by watching complicated processes before you try them. On Cooking teaches you cooking and prep techniques. Food for Fifty will help you plan for the daunting task of entertaining large groups. And On Baking offers over 400 recipes that come with instructions and tips for mastering complicated baking techniques.


Watch step-by-step instructional videos to master complicated techniques.




Customer Reviews:   Read 90 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars MasterCook delux   August 13, 2008
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is the first software cookbook I have purchased since the Micro cookbooks of the '90's. Not dissapointed but also not overly impressed. Much easier to use with lots of short cuts. Not impressed with the imbedded cookbook and their recipes but I did not buy it for that. I bought it to record and store my collected recipes and it seems fine for doing that.


4 out of 5 stars Great Tool   July 25, 2008
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Aside from the vast library of recipes, shopping and nutrition tools that this product offers, this software is great for people who have family recipes, who like to invent their own dishes or re-invent them. You can produce a cookbook with all of those beloved recipes and it can include the nutritional value as well (Watch out, you will find out just how loaded with fat and calories mom's home cooking really was). I also like that you can recalculate the portion size of the recipes and it will recalculate your shopping list.

The only reason that I give it a 4 and not a 5 is because it's not a beautifully designed interface. You are getting a lot of utility and flexibility here in exchange though.

If you are kind of a techie, you should consider this software a 5. It's very flexible in terms of it's architecture and database set up.



5 out of 5 stars MasterCook 9   July 23, 2008
  2 out of 2 found this review helpful

MasterCook 9 was purchased to replace Mastercook 6 (Betty Crocker Edition) which refused to install using Windows Vista. I found that the newer version works great with Vista and I was able to import all of my personal recipes, as well as the Betty Crocker ones. This has always been wonderful software, in my opinion, and I look forward to adding even more of my personal recipes to it. It is has a small learning curve and once you have mastered that (about three recipes worth of entries will do it) you have something that will greatly aid you in keeping your paper recipes to a minimum.


1 out of 5 stars program is buggy   July 15, 2008
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I have version 9.0.00.20. It is basicaly unusable. Customer service by Valusoft is about the worst I have run into. Recommend avoiding the program until they get it fixed.


2 out of 5 stars just ok   July 12, 2008
I bought this to get some unique ideas. It's doesn't have much I would use.
I have more luck just browsing the internet. I would say I was disappointed.


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