Your Try Soon Queue is a ready-to-go list of
recipes that you'd like to try in the next 30 days.
In this way, it's different from
your Favorites list, which never expires recipes without you explicitly
removing them.
When you sign up to use BigOven.com
as a member
you get a built-in Try Soon Queue (or "ordered list"), that you
control. You can adjust the order of
various dishes in your Queue page whenever you'd like. Create
a queue of recipes you'd like to try soon as you're browsing the site, and
then, when you're stuck for what to make tonight, simply visit it again
from any web browser:
www.bigoven.com.
Other BigOven cooks can suggest
items for your Try Soon Queue, and you can suggest recipes
for theirs! Simply click "Suggest to Friend" .
Unlike your fridge, your Queue
cleans itself automatically over time. That is, to help keep Try Soon
lists as fresh as the food you like to eat, BigOven will automatically
remove a recipe from your queue 30 days after you add it. If you
want to permanently mark a recipe, flag it as a Favorite.
1) How To Add Recipes to Your
Try Soon Queue
Once you
sign up to use BigOven.com
(did we mention -- it's free?),
you can add recipes to your queue from the recipe detail page.
2) Using Your Try Soon Queue
Your Try Soon Queue is simple to
find.
Simply visit
www.bigoven.com, and log in.
You'll see the next three items in your list, ready to go!
You can also access it from your
personal chef page from any web browser, simply by typing
"http://www.bigoven.com/~username", where username=the
BigOven username that you chose when you signed up. For instance,
http://www.bigoven.com/~stevemur.
3) Tell others about your
Try Soon Queue and Favorites!
Remember, by joining BigOven.com,
you get your own personal chef page on the net. (example:
www.bigoven.com/~stevemur).
Simply tell anyone to visit your chef page on the net to find out what
your Trying Soon, as well as your favorites!
There, they can even
get RSS feeds that represent the recipes you post, the photos you upload,
your Try Soon and Favorites list. (See the orange
button. You can use
any RSS reader on the web to keep track of your friend's Try Soon recipes!
There are many great RSS readers out there; we currently recommend
Google Reader.)
It's a great idea to share your
recipe ideas with friends and family, no matter where they are around the
globe.
button. You can use
any RSS reader on the web to keep track of your friend's Try Soon recipes!
There are many great RSS readers out there; we currently recommend