DVO Cook'n Deluxe 6.0 - Ultimate Recipe Organizer

by DVO Enterprises

Product Features

• Enjoy home cookin' in just minutes. Over 20 years ago, Miriam Loo founded the Current Test Kitchen and developed hundreds of delicious dishes. In the tradition of good taste and healthy living, she offers hundreds of her personally tested treats in Cook'n Deluxe. Ms. Loo first introduced her recipes into the Current line by including them on simple note cards and calendars. Now, wit

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000056B63
• Item model number: 2042004
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 19, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,751 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #26 in Software > Business & Office > Schedule & Contact Management > Organizers & Address Books
  • #54 in Software > Home & Hobbies > Cooking & Health

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

With more than 6,000 recipes and an impressive array of organizational tools, Cook'n Deluxe wants to liberate your computer from the drudgery of office work and turn it into a kitchen helper.

Cook'n Deluxe, a Windows-only program, adeptly performs all of the usual tasks expected of cooking CD-ROMs. Menu planners and recipe managers take the grunt work out of deciding what to cook and adjusting recipe amounts. One excellent, and very thorough, feature is the Grocery Shopping Assistant. Cooks decide on a recipe, open it, click on "list," and a grocery list appears, complete with preferred brand names, package sizes, estimated cost of the shopping trip, and a nutritional workup of the meal. With a couple of clicks, not only do we have a shopping list for Dixie Grits Casserole ($16.95), we also discover that one serving contains 19 grams of fat. Hardcore cybershoppers can send all of this information to their PalmPilot and hit the aisles.

The recipes are broken down into 70 cookbooks: Farmer's Market, Never Say Leftovers, Cooking on the Run, and 50 Pies are some of the titles. Recipes range from Corn Dog Squares to Choucroute Garni (sauerkraut and meat). We would have liked to see more fresh ingredients and a few more basics--there was no plain apple pie among the 50 Pies--but cooks can remedy that by entering their own recipes. An Enter the Ingredients section allows cooks to tally up whatever's sitting in the pantry, and search the entire database for recipes that match. Some recipes have accompanying photos, and a small handful have instructional videos that feel like filler--is it really necessary to demonstrate wrapping rolls in foil?

Cook'n Deluxe is a friendly program that's easy to use. Its strongest features are the amount of recipes it offers, and that "too much information" shopping list feature. The flavorless videos are probably this CD-ROM's weakest area, though the producers redeem themselves by hiding a yummy blooper reel of the cooking experts' goof-ups within the program. --Anne Erickson

Product Description

Enjoy home cookin' in just minutes.Over 20 years ago Miriam Loo founded the Current Test Kitchen and developed hundreds of delicious dishes. In the tradition of good taste and healthy living she offers hundreds of her personally tested treats in Cook'n Deluxe.Ms. Loo first introduced her recipes into the Current line by including them on simple note cards and calendars.Now with just a click of your mouse you too can enjoy all the favorites from Ms. Loo and Current's Kitchen on the Cook'n Deluxe CD.Cook'n's computer cookbook makes entertaining a snap. Simply select the number of guests you will be serving and enter it into your favorite Current recipe. Cook'n calculates the new ingredient amounts for you. No more measuring madness! What's more a simple and easy-to-learn drag and drop selection system allows you to compile weekly and monthly menus full of Ms. Loo's most delectable dishes.Have a special occasion or evening guests? Prepare the delectable Rosemary Chicken dish. Or savor a rich Raspberry Truffle dessert. The Cook'n Deluxe CD has everything you need to make mealtime memorable.6000 recipesSystem Requirements:Pentium processor or better Windows 95/98/2000/NT 8 MB RAM 2x CD-ROM drive 60 MB HD spaceFormat: WIN 9598MENT2000XP Genre: REFERENCE / LIFESTYLE Rating:  UPC: 615029000346

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Customer Reviews

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152 of 155 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good Software, poor support, May 19, 2003

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Dobeman "Dobeman" (Marietta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DVO Cook'n Deluxe 6.0 - Ultimate Recipe Organizer (CD-ROM)

Were it not for the glitches, this would be a great piece of software.

My main complaint is that each time I update it with their latest software (which includes new recipes), instead of overwriting the existing recipes, it simply adds them again. So, after the installation and two updates, I now have 3 of every recipe.

This is annoying on many levels. I've contacted customer support and their seeming automaton tells me to update to the latest version. Well...that's what is causing the problems.

I'm a Microsoft engineer so I'm not computer-stupid. The software has some serious flaws.

Buy at your own risk.

49 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WORST COOKING SOFTWARE EVER, March 6, 2005

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evicka "swissmrs" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DVO Cook'n Deluxe 6.0 - Ultimate Recipe Organizer (CD-ROM)

old interface, many bugs, user extremely unfriendly, a complete waste of money for overpriced piece of cooking software developed by some unexperienced software writer, that is lucky to get away with such an unsatisfactory job! Get living cookbook software instead, instant download online, it is the best one by far.

43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Crash happy recipe software, February 27, 2005

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Pablo - See all my reviews

This review is from: DVO Cook'n Deluxe 6.0 - Ultimate Recipe Organizer (CD-ROM)

I never write reviews of software, or anything for that matter. However, I felt compelled to warn others before they throw away 40 bucks on this software. It is very hard to install if you are missing some .dll files. You have to scower the internet to find and download the right ones. Also, I bought the combination package that had two other recipe cd's included. If you load these in the wrong order, watch out as well ! Once I finally got everything up and running, it worked for about a month, then crashed. I finally got tired of fixing this program, and decided to use the cookin' delux cd's as drink coasters. Beware.