Editorial Review/Rating is out of date 29 January 2016 Reviewer: Momster from Vashon, WA
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I have been using AllRecipes for about five years. Before the recent format change to a "Pinterest" style website, it was the best tool out there for serious cooks. It allowed you to search for recipes, save them as "favorites," enter personal recipes, plan menus, and make a shopping list for the week, and print it before going to the market. All of these functions were seamless.
The recent changes have made it awkward at best and infuriating at worst to use the site. Recipes load slowly, pages have to be frequently re-loaded, and the linkages between the various pieces don't work well at all. It is now impossible to print a shopping list; the shopping list does not allow for deletion of recipes for the prior week (instead, the user must go through the list and manually delete items not needed for the current menu); and it is not easy to figure out the simplest functions such as saving a personal recipe to a particular folder after it's been entered.
While I have complained directly to AllRecipes about the new format and pointed out the user-friendly features from the old that need to be returned, I have no hope that any changes will be made. I would invite the editor who gave the site a five-star rating to go back and rate it again. I am sure they will be as horrified as loyal users have been by the new, non-functional site.
In summary, I would not recommend All Recipes to a friend.
