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AllRecipes has a rating of 1.9 stars from 230 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about AllRecipes most frequently mention new format, email address, and many times problems. AllRecipes ranks 93rd among Recipe sites.

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Top Positive Review

“Love this site”

Elizabeth M.
4/29/13

Love this site. Especially benefit from others' comments on posted recipes. Videos are incredible as a learning tool. Ingredient lookup function is priceless when you have leftovers and want to combine them/use them up. Very few sites that I'm faithful to and this is one!

Top Critical Review

“Inaccurate recipes”

Rob B.
1/26/24

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.

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Thumbnail of user ar737
Virginia
1 review
8 helpful votes
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January 4th, 2023

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.

Thumbnail of user suzanneh647
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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March 7th, 2023

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.

Thumbnail of user joyces602
Canada
1 review
11 helpful votes
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December 5th, 2020

It's too bad such a great site has sooo much advertising on it that I can only see 1.5 inches of the recipe on my laptop. The site has such little respect for those trying to find or use recipes that in return I have little respect for it.
The recipes are 5 star but the site would get a zero if I could.

Thumbnail of user carlas120
Louisiana
1 review
11 helpful votes
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July 6th, 2018

This site was my fave, my trusted go to quickly and get dinner going, saved time and helped with dinner time blues. I love to search by ingredients. Come back to us. The app has been removed from my streaming device.

Thumbnail of user cherylr60
Texas
1 review
15 helpful votes
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September 24th, 2017

I now hate your website very, very extremely much! You can not maneuver the site without being completely Inundated with ads! A complete waste of my time! And what is that ignorant Spoon Stirring the Bowl crap? You used to be the best, but You sold out! Now all you are is a LOSER site!

Thumbnail of user lucyb56
Maryland
1 review
11 helpful votes
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November 19th, 2017

I have been a fan of Allrecipes for years. I especially liked being able to sort recipes by ratings. It appears that this function is not available in the new format. Unfortunately, I must move on to new sites that provide this function because it is important to me. Sorry, Allrecipes.

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Wendy B.
Texas
1 review
7 helpful votes
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February 10th, 2019

People very often, that's to say almost always, rate recipes according to changes that they made to the recipe. This is infuriating. If you see a recipe with 5 stars you'd think it is awesome. Then you read all the reviews and see that people really gave their variation of the recipe 5 stars. Not cool people.

Thumbnail of user lindam4710
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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September 25th, 2022

I learned quite some time ago not to trust the integrity of Allrecipes.com. And yet, its a great site. Just unreliable. To use it successfully I keep an excel spreadsheet of every recipe in my Saved Items and Collections. I keep my excel spreadsheet and my Saved Items and Collections on Allrecipes in sync at all times. This weekend is a perfect example of why. I have tried multiple times on Edge, Chrome, and Safari, and my Saved Items and Collections will not load. It I didn't have my control sheet I would not have access to my favorite recipes. My Favorites works on the ios App, so I know the information is still there, but once again the Allrecipes site is broken this weekend. No doubt they'll get around to fixing it at some point.

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Thumbnail of user kimg214
Virginia
1 review
8 helpful votes
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October 18th, 2018

This site used to be great. Recently, I noticed that a few of the Pro features disappeared. Since 2012, I've paid for the pro subscription. In Jan 2018, I paid for 2 years, I don't have the Pro features. I've emailed 4 times and I've called and left a message two times. Awful and so disappointing. I'm looking for an alternative.

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California
0 reviews
1 helpful vote
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January 2nd, 2022

As the title says, it's a great place for recipes. But what good is that if you can't navigate their terrible website? They recently reformatted the site, and went from bad to much worse. Check it out yourself, you'll see. Ughh. Get it together, webmaster!

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Idaho
1 review
5 helpful votes
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February 18th, 2019

Tried to print a tater tot casserole recipe on two different laptops and it doesn't work. Just trying to write the review here, the damn spell checker starts to correct and comes up with the stupid "block" window which doesn't behave like any other spell checker I've ever used and reverts the "corrected" text back to the start of what you are typing. I'm done - will block this site in my hosts file. You people need to snip your programmers so they don't pass their genes on. One star, but only because it wouldn't allow ZERO!

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Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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August 1st, 2021

Used to love this site, no it's a pile of crap. It so hard to operate now. They're using recipes people uploaded onto it to make a profit. Not even their own. I'll never go back on. It was so frustrating.

Thumbnail of user sheilaw59
Indiana
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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February 17th, 2018

Allrecipes once was my favorite site for searching recipes. That was... until they got rid of the ability to sort by rating. I only searched for the highest rated recipes... why would I waste time making a dish only rated one star? Thankfully I saved many of these favorites. I even emailed them directly and received an obligatory response stating that they would pass my remarks/suggestions on to their technical team. Newsflash... your new Allrecipe format sucks! You are losing faithful, longtime users Now I just google or go to the Pioneer Wonan site... my Allrecipes replacement. HORRIBLE decision Allrecipes, and SHAME ON YOU for not listening to your users!

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Florida
1 review
5 helpful votes
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November 25th, 2015

This is my go to website, which is currently Under Construction. Why in the hell would you close your website down 2 days before thanks giving to upload more recipes. This should have been completed atleast a week ago. More quality meals are cooked tonight and tomorrow than all year long. I really need an oyster dressing recipe and the website is under construction. Bad Timing.

Thumbnail of user theae
Illinois
11 reviews
44 helpful votes
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July 23rd, 2011

Love this site! When I came to US I don't know how to cook, allrecipes taught me pretty much how to cook. Recipes range from simple to not-so-simple, but the best part are the the feedbacks, reviews and tips from other people/cooks! Yummy website!

Thumbnail of user christinag272
Georgia
3 reviews
29 helpful votes
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June 15th, 2020

I love this site but it isn't perfect. The quantity of recipes is awesome but the site is glitchy, it's overrun with advertisements, and the search feature rarely works as it should. It used to be so much better. If you do manage to get the recipe you're after you have to fight to try to be able to print it without advertisements on top of your directions or ingredients. It's frustrating and annoying. If they'd clean up the website and work on the search feature it could be a five star website for sure.

Thumbnail of user beverlym53
Massachusetts
1 review
3 helpful votes
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August 1st, 2017

I've been using Allrecipes site for years. I've reviewed many recipes. I have quite a collection that I have saved. For at least a month I have been unable to access my collection nor am I able to write any reviews. I get a red X when I try to rate and review a recipe. I contacted customer service a few weeks ago and they assured me they were working on it. Blah blah blah. I am so frustrated with what you've done Allrecipes. All I can say is thanks a lot!

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Thumbnail of user nm117
Pennsylvania
1 review
3 helpful votes
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April 1st, 2019

It used to be so easy to find a recipe on here. Especially through the ingredient search. I used to love this because I'd have various items that I'd need to make into a dish and the ingredient search WAS excellent. Now when I try to do an ingredient search the page pulls up about 5 actual recipes that pertain to what I'm searching. The rest is ads and how to do this or that - totally unrelated to what I'm searching. I HATE IT. It's too bad. This used to be such a great website - Booooo!

Thumbnail of user kellyev
Arkansas
1 review
22 helpful votes
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February 1st, 2016

Dont call their customer service number... After listening to minutes of advertisements they say the number is changed
And then the other number is just ridiculous
I'll never order their magazine again

Thumbnail of user cheriem13
Canada
1 review
8 helpful votes
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April 21st, 2017

AllRecipes used to be amazing. I used to look up a recipe, get suggestions, choose one, print it, and BOOM! Dinner is served.
HOWEVER, now, whoever designed their website, has made it overrun with ads SO MUCH so that you can't even click or search for the recipe you want, as the page is constantly loading ads, and re-scrolling to different areas when you actually want to click on something. Video ads wont stop when you click the pause or volume buttons.
This page used to be great.
The recipes on it still are!
The site itself, DOWNHILL FAST. So unappealing, its almost not worth trying.
Just learn to click the "stop loading" button on your web bar. It's the only thing that MIGHT help you navigate this page.

Thumbnail of user scottk232
Illinois
1 review
5 helpful votes
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November 21st, 2018

System is slow and prone to errors. I had to enter my recipe twice to get it to take. Simply doesn't function well at all. Also, can't sort by RATING? Really!?

You have to wonder what idiot made these choices. And who is "maintaining" the system? 3rd graders with crayons?

Thumbnail of user marilynk9
New York
1 review
11 helpful votes
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September 14th, 2016

This entire web site has changed and not for the better. These are the issues:
1. When saving a new recipe it is extremely difficult to find a folder that you had created in the past to place the new recipe
2. When you print a recipe you can no longer change the font, include comments that you would want. The options for printing has been removed
3. If you change the serving size - when you print the recipe it does not tell you how many it serves

4. It is very difficult to find the recipes in your collection and you previously had prior to the site change
5. When printing a recipe it prints the advertisements which is not wanted thus wasting ink

I have called several times and all I am told is that they are working on it. I dont know what country is working on it but they should be fired. I have canceled my magazine and no longer use the site

Thumbnail of user helenn82
Canada
1 review
10 helpful votes
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November 15th, 2019

The website is super slow motion it's not even funny. You're being thrown recipes at you that you haven't even searched for. When you want to rate a recipe, it doesn't allow you, at least not today, Nov. 15,2019. As for the recipe quality, they are not great. I still am waiting to be wowed by a recipe on this website.

Thumbnail of user joym31
Texas
1 review
24 helpful votes
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March 19th, 2016

I just got on and I can not organize my shopping list like I use to. My only option is to delete. I have several personal recipes and all the ingredients go to the bottom. If I click on a recipe to add it then go back it rearranges all the recipes and puts me back at the top. Defiantly not user friendly anymore. I will be moving all my recipes to another site and closing out this account.

Tip for consumers:
Go somewhere else

Thumbnail of user shoe.delusion
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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March 29th, 2023

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.

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