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Texas
1 review
26 helpful votes
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When are you going to fix your new format problems? I haven't been able to access my recipe box since you changed. I sent you an email a few months ago asking this, but have never heard back.

Date of experience: November 20, 2015
Delaware
1 review
10 helpful votes
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February 12, 2018

Not sure why they stopped allowing you to do this. This used to be my favorite recipe website. I'm assuming they probably push ads to the top that people pay for instead of actually good recipes.

Date of experience: February 12, 2018
Kansas
1 review
16 helpful votes
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What happened to the ADD NOTES feature? I don't see it anymore. Really a big mistake.

NOTE TO USERS- I'm now copying recipes to Notes on my iPad. That way I can adjust and add any notes, and not have to depend on allrecipies site dropping features or going offline. Fyi.

Date of experience: June 24, 2020
30 reviews
213 helpful votes
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Easy and fun recipes for all occasions - This simple and navigable site contains hundreds of thousands of searchable recipes submitted by home cooks (totally doable, even for the kitchen-challenged). You can even search for recipes using specific ingredients if you have random leftover ingredients that you would like to use up.

Very cool is the option of scaling the original recipe yield for the number of servings. They even have a nutritional breakdown for each recipe, a section on similar recipes, downloadable cookbooks (their summer picnic cookbook is pretty good), and an entire section on budget-friendly recipes. I'm a fan of their shopping list feature, where you can save recipes in your recipe box and the site creates a shopping list organized by category (e.g. Produce, meat, dairy, etc.). How convenient.

The best part about this site is that the recipes are reviewed and rated by users, and a sizable proportion of them have creative modification suggestions (to make the end result tastier, healthier, or even better, both!).

I didn't even like lemon bars until I tried these (check out the modification suggested by the second reviewer - it's best with freshly squeezed lemon juice): http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Bake-Sale-Lemon-Bars/Detail.aspx

Date of experience: July 8, 2008
Arizona
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Ha, I love this place. I just signed up and you are previewing one of my favorite sites. I am on it at least once per day. Some of my best creations are taken from all recipes.

Date of experience: July 27, 2011
Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I am very unhappy with the advertising that pops up when i try to use the site for recipes. It usually takes up half a page and makes reading the recipe almost impossible

Date of experience: March 29, 2021
Arizona
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I love Allrecipes because the spinner option is very easy to use and gives you great choices of dishes to make with what you have and the alloted time you have. The comments section is also very helpful becuase I cna get advice on what to do when I mkae it before I start.

Date of experience: April 10, 2014
Ohio
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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What started as a great site to get recipes and share recipes has gone to pot. Unfortunately, it's a long simmering pot. The good has been cooked out of the site. The ability to modify and save recipes disappeared long ago. The dinner spinner feature never really worked. The final straw was moving all my favorites into various collections with no input from myself. And on top of that, they removed the ability to search my favorite recipes. I've got thousands saved. Trying to figure out where they put it was like trying to find where the grocer thinks that one item you're looking for should be in his store. What makes sense to him, doesn't to you. When I contacted them about that, they said that the current iteration of the site doesn't support search and they MIGHT bring it back, but it wasn't in the immediate plans. A total disregard for their base. If Meredith were a politician, they'd be voted out. Time to move on. I printed all my favorites to PDF files. I can now search for them easily on my PC. Having Adobe DC Pro, I can also edit them. Such a shame that such a great site was left on too long to the point of a serious reduction.

Date of experience: April 21, 2022
Kansas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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When will your technical issue be resolved? I have not been able to access my recipes since Nov. 2022.

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Date of experience: March 5, 2023
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It used to be an amazing site for finding recipes based on specific ingredients. I won't be using this site again.

Date of experience: May 9, 2023

Overview

AllRecipes has a rating of 1.8 stars from 224 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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