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Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Our extended family started using Allrecipes over a decade ago, primarily to store and share recipes between family members. We entered hundreds of recipes. All of our recipes were lost and Allrecipes has not been helpful in helping us locate where they went. Tech support has been vague and unhelpful. Do not trust. Allrecipes 10-15 years ago was 1000% better than it is now.

Date of experience: July 14, 2023
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Inaccurate recipes
January 26, 2024

I found two recipes that I followed on all recipes.com to yield results inconsistent with those advertised to be expected. It seemed as if they were just dreamt up, and published without any practical application. I then tried to submit a comment, and was advised that the email address does not exist.

Date of experience: January 26, 2024
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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WHY Would you change something that was so great?!?!?! This is so annoying...I've been using All Recipes for over 20 years and the App has always been way better than the website! NOW they decided to get rid of the App which has over 20 years of saved recipes. For some reason, the website has always been bad because you cannot sort and filter by Popularity, most reviews, etc...The app was really cool!

Are you trying to completely sink your company?! I guess I'll have to try the "Tasty" app. I hate when companies do this crap...They get some hot shot in there to try and Change everything when essential they ruin the entire company platform just like Budlight.

Date of experience: July 13, 2023
California
1 review
11 helpful votes
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This site provided the most useful search for recipes by ingredients of any out there. Putting in what you had on hand and what you would not want to include led to fantastic novel suggestions and many new discoveries. Now the site is completely dumbed down and I guess is meant to be used to click through thousands of recipes. Much rather use a cookbook for that. Completely unclear why they messed up the site so bad. I am looking forward to a competitor simply implementing their old model.

Date of experience: January 31, 2023
Georgia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Yeah, this used to be a good site. Like other reviewers, one can no longer search for a recipe. I don't know what happened but I noticed a lot of changes—not for the better—over the past couple of years. And now today it's the worst it's ever been. If their goal is to stop folks from using their site, well it's working. Seems like the quality of businesses has gone downhill especially ever since COVID came around—not saying that I blame COVID— but a lot of businesses have blamed their lack of quality on it.

Date of experience: March 28, 2023
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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This was a great site and it also had several international sites including a really good Australian and New Zealand version. That's now gone and all my bookmarks just redirect to the home page of the main site. On their Australian and New Zealand cuisine page they say they have more than 570 Aus & NZ recipes but I can't find many at all. Functionality of the site has also been drastically reduced. It's much harder to find what I want now. When they give weights of ingredients they don't give the metric value, although they do at least give temperatures in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. There are also a lot of ads and I wouldn't mind that too much except for the one across the top that reduces the amount of useful screen space.

Date of experience: March 4, 2023
Florida
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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The website functionality has been dismantled. The recipe box feature gone, the sort on highest tested and rated recipes or reviews gone, list of ingredients and return recipes - gone. No market research from its user base! Shame! Useless now!

Date of experience: December 25, 2022
Virginia
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Allrecipes.com used to be my favorite site for meal planning & recipes. I loved the search function - if I wanted to try something new with, say, raspberries & lemons, I could search. I saved hundreds of recipes along with my personal notes. Whoever 'updated' the site took out all the functionality (including my notes), and I can't even easily find, say, the lasagna recipes I saved over the years without scrolling through the hundreds of recipes I've saved. I've sent in my questions/issues/recommendations to corporate to no avail. Now, if on occasion, I try to use the site again, just puts me in an extremely bad mood. I should have gone old-school and printed the recipes when I had the chance.

Date of experience: January 4, 2023
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Since they took away the search for recipe by ingredient feature I will be switching to SuperCook as they still have that function. It's a little fiddly but I can type a single ingredient (like ground pork) & see everything that uses that.

Date of experience: March 7, 2023
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Im not even that into cooking. Before allrecipes, everything I cooked was off the betty crocker website. Thats right. Betty Crocker. When I discovered allrecipes years ago i was an instant fan. All these people across the US sharing recipes in a giant database- people like me who actually made the recipe could rate and suggest improvements. I learned so much from you all. You could search by ingredients, ratings, recipes. I had favorite contributors. Now, i go to search for a recipe and the results are just articles about recipes from someone who *clearly has not made a single one of these recipes*. Then Ive got to sift through these articles to find a recipe i have the ingredients to make for dinner in an hour? Pfft, ill just google it. Google isnt as efficient as the old allrecipes, but it blows new allrecipes away. I am just so very disappointed.

Date of experience: March 29, 2023
Oregon
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I used and LOVED the app for years! I had all my favorite recipes saved and I went back to it often to be inspired and find new things. Since we were all forced to this website now, I've lost all of my saved recipes and it's difficult to use the recipes. I like to look at the list of ingredients read thru the reviews, etc. Now each recipe reads like an article. I don't want to read all the dribble just to figure out if I want to make the recipe and if I have the ingredients on hand. You have taken one of the best apps there was (and one I told lots of my friends about) and turned it into something I rarely use. Please bring back the app!

Date of experience: January 7, 2024
Arizona
1 review
1 helpful vote
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No app
November 1, 2023

Everyone liked the conveince of the app! It's a hassle to go to the search bar when you could just open the app already logged into. Why the change. Who thought this was a bright idea. Not good, Not convenient, Not easy to use!

Date of experience: November 1, 2023
Florida
1 review
4 helpful votes
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What does celebrating black women have to do with cooking chicken? Help build societal change by taking color out of the equation. Choosing leaders for the future should be based on merit, not on color.
Chicken was delicious!

Date of experience: March 26, 2022
Canada
1 review
22 helpful votes
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A great site gone bad
August 3, 2021

I used to love AllRecipes. All of my family's favourite meals I found on this site. It is still okay on the iPhone, however, the desktop version is awful. The ad at the top takes up 75% of the screen and it does not go away unless you are looking at your account information. You can not see anything of value on the site. It is virtually impossible to now look for new recipes. I will have to look elsewhere for good meals. Such a shame.

Date of experience: August 3, 2021
Florida
1 review
9 helpful votes
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When I first complained about the new website, Allrecipes had an over 80% positive rating on SiteJabber. A year or so later? It's now below 60%.

And their management think they're onto something better than what they had before. Hah! Try a simple Google search for recipes you have in mind: you've find plenty of links, many with ratings, and you won't have to put up with the Allrecipes attitude which, forgive me, sucks. Big Time.

Date of experience: December 24, 2016
New York
1 review
15 helpful votes
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I really don't get what has happened to this website over the past two years or so. It's slowly become less and less functional, and their most recent update is just terrible. I'm going to find a different recipe site now because AllRecipes is such a mess. Now all of your saved recipes are in one category (which doesn't really make sense), and you can't choose how to sort them. I haven't been able to save recipes as "I Made This" for like a year, and none of my reviews have saved since then. They must be intentionally running this site into the ground.

Date of experience: March 19, 2022
Virginia
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Worst site ever
May 28, 2017

Allrecipes used to be brilliant. It was amazing. They took away menu planner, the interface sucks, you can't put your own recipes in efficiently any more, there are adds everywhere, and not just 10-15 seconds, but freaking 30 second ads. There is nothing good about all recipes anymore.

Date of experience: May 28, 2017
Illinois
1 review
10 helpful votes
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Ratings No More
December 21, 2017

I used this site extensively, sorted recipes by ratings, and never could go wrong. Something changed and it is utterly unusable. Why would I waste my time going over recipes with 1 star? You really messed up Allrecipes.com. I am no longer a customer. Horrible business decision.

Date of experience: December 21, 2017
Ohio
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Kicked Out Once Too Many
December 6, 2016

I understand websites are paid for with ads, but if the ads make a site unusable, everyone loses. I won't be using Allrecipes anymore after trying to follow a recipe and getting kicked out every time I tried to scroll down. This site is worthless. Go dig up your grandmas' recipes instead. You'll get less indigestion.

Date of experience: December 6, 2016
California
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Completely sold out.
January 12, 2018

Like many others, I've frequented this site for many, many years. There were thousands of user-submitted recipes, and tens of thousands of ratings + reviews to guide you. Now, that most critical feature of the website has been rendered useless due to some idiot removing the ability to sort recipes by rating.

I understood when the site started turning into more of an online magazine, although I did not see the use of it. I bristled when they intrusively started "suggesting" where I could buy the ingredients for my recipes nearby, and at what price. But losing the ability to figure out which recipe is best, as crowd-decided by thousands like me? Sorry, but someone should be fired and publicly shamed for stupidity. It's like Burger King decided to stop selling burgers; I only went there for one thing, and now it's gone.

Date of experience: January 12, 2018

Overview

AllRecipes has a rating of 1.8 stars from 230 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with AllRecipes most frequently mention new format, email address and many times. AllRecipes ranks 85th among Recipe sites.

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value
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quality
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