Introducing BigOven Cooking Groups
Create your own cooking clubs online!
Have you ever wanted to group a bunch of like-minded cooking buddies together, group in some recipes, and chat about them with people who have similiar interests?
Are you crazy about Indian Food? Are you trying to cook more organically? Are you a Weight Watcher? Are you on the South Beach Diet? Are you looking for ways to plan Thanksgiving? Looking for input on party food and drinks? Are you looking to improve your food photography skills?
Introducing BigOven Cooking Groups. They're free, and they're meant to help you focus in on the topics you'd like, with like-minded folks. Think of groups the same way you'd think of a cooking club. A BigOven Cooking Group consists of members (anyone can join an unlimited number of groups) and recipes (videos will soon be able to be added to a given group).
You can create a Cooking Group on any topic you'd like, or join existing ones.
At present, all groups are public (we've got private groups in the feature development queue). Anyone can join as many groups as they'd like, and any member of a group can contribute to the discussion topics and to the group's recipe pool. You can find out which groups a given member is part of right on their chef page.
See www.bigoven.com and click on "Groups" in the top-level menu to get started.
To kick things off for our beta test period, I've created a group for Thanksgiving and a group for Grilling. But please add more! Many, many more!
We'd love your feedback on this new feature. We've got many ideas to make it better over time -- such as subscribing to group topics via email -- and would love to hear your suggestions.
[At present, Cooking Groups are available only via the top-level website www.bigoven.com, but we'll be adding appropriate links for those using the recipe software as well.]
Got a group idea? Get started here!