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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”

iPhone Owners Get Free Access to 160,000+ Recipes with New Recipe Search Service from BigOven.com

stevemur — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:59:15 GMT

IPHONE OWNERS GET FREE ACCESS TO 160,000+ RECIPES WITH NEW RECIPE SEARCH SERVICE FROM BIGOVEN.COM

SEATTLE, WA SEP 29 2008: BigOven.com, a rapidly-growing social network about food with 150,000+ members from around the world, announced the immediate availability of free recipe search for iPhone users. People can post their favorite recipes and photos to the site for free, and access them from anywhere.

“Now, if you’re at the grocery store, and don’t know what ingredients you need to make Chicken Cacciatore, simply visit www.bigoven.com from your iPhone, and bookmark it", said Steve Murch, CEO and Head Chef of BigOven.com. “You can enter general search terms like ‘easy breakfast eggs’ or ingredients from your fridge, and get some great suggestions”. BigOven for iPhone has specially tailored the interface to be clear and uncluttered for smaller cellphone displays.

Publish your Favorites, Carry Them With You It’s free to join BigOven.com, and members can easily build “Try Soon” and “Favorite” lists from a PC or Mac, then access them from their iPhone, Blackberry or web-enabled cellphone at the address www.bigoven.com/m

About BigOven.com

Seattle-based BigOven.com is a rapidly-growing social network about food, with over 160,000+ recipes and about 150,000 members from around the world. Cooks can post recipes, photos, how-to cooking videos, and tips for free and search recipes in a variety of ways, including “what’s fresh”, “leftover wizard”, flavor tags and more.

First released in 2004, BigOven.com now serves over 1.3 million unique visitors every month, up more than four-fold over last year. The founder, Steve Murch, has over three decades of experience in the personal computing industry, including executive-level experience at both Microsoft Corporation and Expedia, Inc.

*iPhone is a registered trademark of Apple Inc.

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."

Are you the next Rachael Ray? Star in Your Own Online Cooking Show!

stevemur — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:26:50 GMT

Are you the next Rachael Ray? Star in Your Own Online Cooking Show!

BigOven.com Adds User-To-User Cooking Videos to Rapidly Growing Food Social NetworkSeattle, Washington,

October 30 2007: BigOven.com, a rapidly growing social network about food with over 160,000 recipes and 60,000 registered members, announces the immediate availability of BigOven Video. “BigOven is all about sharing great cooking, and this is a terrific way for family members to document and pass along their time-honored recipes and tips this holiday” said Steve Murch, founder and head chef of BigOven.com.

Videos can be uploaded for free to BigOven.com in one of four popular formats (.AVI, .MOV, .WMV, .FLV). Alternatively, if the video is already posted on YouTube, one need only provide the YouTube URL, and BigOven’s servers will fetch it. Videos can be tagged with an unlimited number of keywords for flavor, cuisine, technique, ingredient list or more, just like the recipes in the 160,000 recipe archive.Unlike other video sharing sites, BigOven is exclusively focused on food, and all videos are reviewed by an editor before going live. The result is much higher quality and more focused content. There is no charge for the video hosting service. BigOven reserves the right to accept or reject videos.

About BigOven.com

BigOven is a rapidly growing and innovative social network about food. With traffic up 400% year-over-year, and over 160,000 recipes now on the system, it’s a great place to go to find virtually any recipe. BigOven brings innovative features like tagging, Try Soon Queues, RSS Feeds and more to the world of food. BigOven’s unique “Leftover Wizard” (http://www.bigoven.com/leftoverwizard2.aspx) lets any cook enter up to 3 ingredients from their fridge to use up what’s on hand.

Unlike other recipe sites, BigOven also offers optional, award-winning desktop recipe organizer for Windows which seamlessly integrates with the online archive. With BigOven for Windows™, cooks can instantly import any recipe from the archive with a click of the mouse, then drag and drop it onto a shopping list (complete with resizing), to generate a grocery list sorted by aisle. Meal plans can also be created with similar drag-and-drop ease, and a grocery list can then be created for any date range. BigOven’s unique "Try Soon" Queue™ helps get users unstuck. All free members of BigOven.com have an online “Try Soon” queue, letting them build a step-by-step list of what to try next. Further, other users can place suggestions directly onto the Try Soon Queue for others, making it easy to suggest a recipe for a friend for family member.About Lakefront Software, Inc.Lakefront Software Inc., makers of BigOven (http://www.bigoven.com), is focused building the leading social network in the food category and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. Founded by Steve Murch, an executive from Microsoft, Expedia, and VacationSpot.com, Lakefront Software Inc. is passionate about making software and the Internet work for consumers at home.

BigOven Cookbook & Kitchenware Store

stevemur — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:34:07 GMT

We've just launched a beta version of the BigOven Cook's Store, which offers a wide variety of cookbooks, gourmet food, and housewares for delivery. Launched in partnership with Amazon.com, the store lets you find and purchase virtually any cookbook, kitchen product, or digital camera, and have it delivered to your door.

Prices are the same as you'll find on Amazon.com, and a portion of the proceeds from each sale goes to help support and expand our site.

You'll find the BigOven Cook's store beta at http://www.bigoven.com/kitchenstore.aspx

Smart Computing, August 2006: BigOven Gets It Right

stevemur — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:52:56 GMT

from Smart Computing Magazine...

Spotlight on BigOven Recipe Software
Smart Computing Magazine, August 2006

"Some of the best apples in the online orchard are the free (or free to try) programs available for download. Each month we feature highlights from our pickings. This month, we spot a digital recipe box.

BigOven Deluxe
www.bigoven.com

The Internet is awash with mediocre recipe software, so we’re glad to see a program that gets it right. Big Oven has great features (including a rating system, detailed recipe-making and nutrition tools, and shopping lists), but it’s the program’s interface that really makes Big Oven shine.

Not sure what to cook for dinner tonight? Browse your illustrated recipes for inspiration. BigOven Deluxe supplies tons of recipes that include mouth-watering photos.

Gone are the days of switching to a different tab to see a recipe’s picture: A large photo of your favorite dish appears above the recipe’s ingredients section. Thanks to handy toolbars that line the top and side of the main window, we found that we rarely bothered to browse the standard File, Edit, View, and Tools menus. Although you’ll recognize most of the buttons right off the bat, you can hover the pointer over any icon for a short description.

The main features are truly features. A star rating system lets you bury the bloopers and keep the keepers close at hand. Many of the included recipes already have ratings, but you can edit them with a few clicks of the mouse. The shopping list feature can create a shopping list from any recipe, complete with descriptions of the grocery store departments that most likely house the ingredients. You can also plan meals with the included Calendar software: Simply drag the recipe into your calendar and then choose the number of servings you’d like to prepare. BigOven automatically scales the recipe’s ingredient list so you won’t use too many (or too few) avocados in your guacamole. To top it off, the program offers nutrition information for each recipe.

BigOven lets you post your own recipes to its huge online recipe database. You can also search the database and easily copy entire recipes (including their pictures) right to your computer. Of course, if you’d prefer not to import recipes individually, you can also download free files that have thousands of recipes from BigOven’s Web site.

You can print any recipe, but if you haven’t yet put a computer on your kitchen counter, we suspect you’ll be shopping for one shortly after trying BigOven. Try BigOven Deluxe free or buy it for $34.95. You can also buy the Starter Edition (which has some feature limitations) for $9.95."

-- Smart Computing Magazine, August 2006

Feb-22-2006: BigOven Releases Free Google Toolbar Button

stevemur — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 06:33:05 GMT

(Seattle, February 22^nd, 2006) BigOven.com, a rapidly growing social network for food, recipes and meal planning, announces the immediate availability of a free custom search button for the Google Toolbar version 4.

About BigOven

BigOven is a complete suite of recipe management applications for the Web, Windows, Palm and Windows Mobile devices, integrated with an online archive of over 150,000 recipes. Cooks of all experience levels can easily swap and rate recipes with anyone around the world. Recipes in the archive has been categorized (“tagged”) into a “folksonomy” by cooks, and can be easily searched in a variety of interesting ways, for instance “spicy chinese chicken”, “winter casserole”, “advance breakfast”, “kid dessert”.

For instance, cooks can come to BigOven.com to quickly find exciting ways to use up the ingredients in their fridge simply by naming 1-5 ingredients in the search, e.g., “garlic lemon mushroom”, or “leftover chicken”.

With the new Google Toolbar custom search button, anyone can find recipes with comments and ratings simply by typing the recipe name into their Google Toolbar window and pressing the BigOven stove icon.

“BigOven has just made it easier for anyone with the Google Toolbar to quickly find what to make for dinner” said Steve Murch, founder and CEO of Lakefront Software, Inc., publisher of BigOven.

Free Download

To install the IE BigOven recipe search button, simply visit www.bigoven.com and click on the “Google Toolbar Custom Search” link in the lower left corner.

In addition, BigOven for Windows, an award-winning recipe management application for Windows PC’s, lets people organize and share their recipe collection:

- Recipe tagging: People can work together to tag recipes with keywords like “spicy”, “grill”, “low-carb”, any way they choose.

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Oct-3-2005: New BigOven Windows Mobile Companion Lets People Retrieve Their Favorite Recipes Wirelessly via BigOven.com Web Services

stevemur — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:17:48 GMT

New BigOven Windows Mobile Companion Lets People Retrieve Their Favorite Recipes Wirelessly via BigOven.com Web Services

(Seattle, October 3, 2005) BigOven.com, a rapidly growing Web and Windows® PC recipe sharing network, announces the immediate availability of a free Windows Mobile Companion that lets cooks tap into the recipes they’ve marked as “Favorite” or “Try Soon” on the web.

BigOven is a complete suite of recipe management applications for the Web, Windows, Palm and Windows Mobile devices. At www.bigoven.com, cooks can find virtually any recipe instantly from over 150,000 recipes online. In addition, BigOven for Windows, a downloadable recipe management application for Windows PC’s, lets people organize and share their recipe collection:

- Recipe tagging: People can work together to tag recipes with keywords like “spicy”, “grill”, “low-carb”, any way they choose.

- Cooks can create meal plans and grocery lists simply by dragging and dropping recipe cards

- Recipe sharing: Recipes can be posted to the online recipe archive, shared with cooks around the world, who can try out then rate the recipe

- Recipe photo sharing: Photos can be posted for any given recipe, and imported into the award-winning BigOven for Windows recipe software with a single click of the mouse.

Jan-18-2005: BigOven.com's Groundbreaking Leftover Wizard(tm) Helps Everyday Cooks

stevemur — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:36:24 GMT

BigOven.com by Lakefront Software, Inc.
For Immediate Release

January 18, 2005

For more information contact: mailto:press@bigoven.com

BigOven.com’s Groundbreaking Leftover Wizard™ Helps Everyday Cooks Save Money and Get Inspired

Stretch your food dollar further with a simple, free online tool

Seattle, WA (January 18, 2005) - Lakefront Software Inc., publisher of the award-winning BigOven(tm) for Windows recipe software (http://www.bigoven.com), announces the immediate availability of the free Leftover Wizard online at http://www.bigoven.com/leftoverwizard.aspx. Type in any ingredients in your fridge, and BigOven will instantly search over 150,000 recipes to suggest things you can make.

“We Americans waste far too much perfectly good food every day”, said Steve Murch, BigOven recipe software founder and avid chef. “We’ve put the BigOven Leftover Wizard online, free of charge, to help everyday cooks figure out how to best use up things in their fridge, pantries and cupboards. It doesn’t matter if you’re on a budget or not – you should always be making the most of the food you buy.”

In 1998, the Worldwatch Institute estimated that 26 million more people in the world could be fed with the world’s food production if Americans reduced their food consumption by a third.

Now, everyday cooks don’t have to throw away quite as much food. Simply visit http://www.bigoven.com/leftoverwizard.aspx type in any three ingredients into the BigOven Leftover Wizard, and you can find what to make. For example, entering “chicken”, “carrot” and “asparagus” will lead you to dozens of great choices, as will “pineapple”, “sesame” and “tofu”. Try it free, and bookmark the page for easy access.

About BigOven for Windows Recipe Software

BigOven for Windows is an award-winning, easy to use recipe organization and meal planning system for Windows.

It lets you easily create shopping lists and meal plans from recipes quickly simply by dragging and dropping. BigOven users on the Internet can swap recipes with each other without retyping. It can