BigOven

I'm just setting up my recipe database and want to make sure that I set it up to match the way I expect to use it.

Am I correct in that the only way to find, for example, all of the appetizers listed in any recipe box is via Advanced Search? Or if I want to use one specific ingedient and want to see the matches in all recipe boxes I'd have to use advanced search?

Can I set the default search to be advanced instead of quick?

I guess that I'm trying to understand the advantage of using recipe boxes instead of keywords.  I'm lening toward utilizing a flat database with keywords but want to make sure before I get too invested in the setup of the database.

Generally speaking, are the recipes on BigOven well tagged (keywords) with ingredients cooking methodology, etc?

Thanks,

Ski

Hi Ski,

It's a matter of personal preference -- some users prefer to divide up recipes into multiple recipe boxes.  Personally, I don't have so many thousands of recipes, and I vastly prefer using tagging and having them all in a single recipe box.  If you don't expect to have more than about 5,000 recipes that you're storing, it's a totally workable approach.

The default search is always Quick Search.  You do have to click that one extra button to bring up Advanced Search.