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Review: "Creating Virtual Recipe Boxes Can be a Snap"

stevemur — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:22:35 GMT

Deborah Yao of the Associated Press just did a nice review on recipe programs and chose BigOven as her favorite.

“It's about time I organized my recipes and BigOven makes it inexpensive, easy and engaging.”

“I must confess that I got hooked on the "import" button. I find a recipe and click on "import" and — bam! — it magically saves to my recipe box.”

Thanks Deborah!

Full article is here: “Review: Creating virtual recipe box can be a snap”

Vote for BigOven - Finalist for "Seattle 2.0" Award

stevemur — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:19:51 GMT

Like BigOven?

We'd love your vote. BigOven's just been nominated by the folks at Seattle 2.0 for "Best Bootstrapped Startup".

If you think we're worthy, click on the image below to cast your vote online.

Voting closes April 28, 2009:

Seattle 2.0

Thanks for your support!

BigOven in Saveur 100 for 2009

stevemur — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:35:06 GMT

BigOven was mentioned as one of Saveur Magazine's "100 Favorite Food Things" for the New Year, in their just-released 2009 edition of the Saveur 100.

At #65 on the list, BigOven was as a favorite recipe app.

65 Brave New World
We love our broken-backed cookbooks and our recipe boxes stuffed with index cards, but the truth is that these days many home cooks are taking inspiration from the Internet as often as they are from paper and ink. And that poses an interesting problem: short of printing out and filing away every online recipe that piques your interest or creating a bookmark drop-down menu on your browser that's a mile long, how do you conveniently store, organize, and share your electronic recipes? Enter our favorite Web development in recent memory: ONLINE RECIPE-MANAGEMENT TOOLS. Software packages such as MacGourmet (macgourmet.com) and BigOven (bigoven.com) save and catalogue recipes in formats that allow users to sort and search by theme ("family meal", say) or ingredient ("fennel bulbs"); to e-mail recipes with ease; to print recipes onto index cards or preformatted recipe book pages; and, in some cases, to upload recipes to an iPod or a PDA. Some of them let you rescale recipes to make bigger or smaller quantities, convert measurements to or from metric, and compile shopping lists of ingredients you'll need. We've also gotten hooked on Delicious (delicious.com); no, it's not a food blog or a recipe tool. It's a "social bookmarking" site that lets you collect online bookmarks (in our case, for recipe pages) from all over cyberspace, share them with others, and see what recipes like-minded users have discovered out there in the boundless banquet that is the World Wide Web.

Thanks, Saveur!

BigOven Wins 2008 Recipe Software Roundup, TopTenReviews.com

stevemur — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:52:04 GMT

We're pleased to see tonight that the reviews site "Top10Reviews" just gave us the 2008 Gold Award (First Place) in their roundup comparison of 9 other software packages.

BigOven scored 5/5 in every measured category. For more information and the full comparison, see:

http://cookbook-recipe-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

The review of BigOven Deluxe notes:

"TopTen REVIEWS’ Gold Award” winner, BigOven Deluxe Inspired Cooking is the only cookbook and recipe organizing program reviewed to integrate software with a dynamic online site BigOven.com. Recipe boxes, menu planning, nutritional analysis, and grocery lists combine with 55,000 participating cooks and 160,000 recipes. The interface is seamless."

June 2007 -- Tucows' Dr. File Finder Awards BigOven "Favorite"

stevemur — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:16:30 GMT

The following review of BigOven was posted on tucows.com by Dr. File Finder(tm) in June of 2007:

A Dr. File Finder Favorite -- BigOven Recipe Software (June 2007)
http://www.tucows.com/solutions_detail.html?article_id=1472

BigOven Recipe Software, by Lakefront Software, Inc. is wonderful software for doing everything with recipes.

It's an impressive piece of software, and if you're into cooking like I am,you're going to want to check it out for yourself. The program makes it easy to enter your personal recipes. This is great for your own use, but it's also helpful for sharing your recipes with family and friends. The program is very easy-to-use and I think it's perfect for both new and experienced users.

One of my favorite features is the grocery list. Don't you hate it when you go to cook something and you're missing a couple key ingredients? Well, not with BigOven Recipe Software. All you do is drag and drop a recipe onto the grocery list and the program makes you a grocery list! Ahhh, but it gets even better. The program just doesn't give you any old list, it even sorts it for you by aisle of your store.

All of this, to me, would be worth the cost, but there's still more. The program makes it a snap to deal with quantity issues. Have a recipe that serves four, but today you have to serve 24? The program figures it out for you. You can mark recipes that you want to try, create meal plans, and get new recipes from the huge online database. Want to share your Grandma's banana bread recipe? You can doit online and do it easily.

I've looked at other recipe programs, but to me BigOven is the best.

For that reason, it's not only a Pick, but also a Dr. File Finder Favorite, and those are few and far between. So, if you like to cook, this is a program you owe it to yourself to try, and buy! My highest recommendation.