DVO Cook'n Deluxe 6.0 - Ultimate Recipe Organizer

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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: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000056B63
• Item model number: 2042004
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 19, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,335 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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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 Age: 615029000346 UPC: 615029000346

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Customer Reviews

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145 of 148 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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.

44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	evicka "czechchick" (UK) - See all my reviews

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.

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cook'n Is Fun, February 25, 2002

By	Susan H. Mathews (Lakeland, Florida USA) - See all my reviews

I am disabled and have used this software for about 60 days. My daughter is getting married and I wanted to create something she wanted that was substantial [not money]. She has built an expensive home and there is not much to give. She always wanted a copy of the family cookbook. My aunt had the original and it was held together with rubberbands and a plastic newspaper bag.
When I saw this I thought WOW, I can't give her any greater a gift than that of my time and our ancesters.
I have input over 4,000 recipes. I have played with the software, broken it, fixed it, lost a hard drive, recovered the files. The program is easy to learn, use, copy, e-mail and print [that was tricky!].
Now the problem is finding a box large enough to hold all the recipes.
I have been disappointed with the support. Downloading from other sites is foggy and DVO is not quick to reply. They say 'Go to the Web Site' but once there there is no help. They have to work on that, but the program is FUN!!!!!!!!