Reviews of the Top 10 Online Recipe Websites of 2024

Welcome to our reviews of the Best Online Recipe Websites of 2024 (also known as Cooking Websites). Check out our top 10 list below and follow our links to read our full in-depth review of each online recipe website, alongside which you'll find costs and features lists, user reviews and videos to help you make the right choice.

All Recipes

AllRecipes.com not only boast a fantastically categorized and extensive archive of literally All Recipes, they also provide users with some pretty neat tools to get their tasty ideas off their web page and onto your plate! Becoming a member is very easy; just input your Email and choose a username and password and away you go! Although users are required to input a US...

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Epicurious

Unlike many other online recipe sites we reviewed that are marketed towards cooks, Epicurious is “for people who love to eat”. In this way, Epicurious is far more than just a recipe website; it is, rather, an online space and community for everything food. From restaurants and wine guides to blogs and podcasts, this site is for those who love to cook, eat, talk...

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Food Network

Anyone familiar with the Food Network from T.V. will feel instantly at home on their fantastic website which is made to feel like an online version of this popular channel. The website offers all the recipes from all the shows as well as many more from their archives and featured in blogs; if you saw a great recipe on The Food Network, or just...

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Food.com

Food.com is a sister site of The Food Network but with a distinctly different, as well as complimentary, focus. Formerly known as RecipeZaar, this site has revamped and rebranded itself as a website dedicated to all things edible. Food.com is clearly orientated towards recipes, and lots of them. All these are made easily accessible by Food.com’s excellent search engine whilst the quantity available means...

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Chow

Unlike many websites in this category that take some digging around in order to work them out, it is immediately obvious that Chow is one of the best designed in this category. Instead of links, tabs and pop-ups flying all over the place, Chow’s homepage simply consists of featured stories and recipes and three tabs; recipes, top stories and video. For those simply browsing,...

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Delia Online

If we had to describe Delia Online in one word it would be “practical”. However, upon further investigation we began to like it more and more until we were bursting with praise for this well-designed, high quality recipe website. Beginning with the recipes, although not nearly the most extensive online recipe archive out there, there are easily enough to satisfy most users. If you...

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MyRecipes

Although other websites in this category may boast larger archives of recipes in terms of pure numbers, the largest archive of professionally tested recipes online can be found at MyRecipes.com. Food experts from a range of popular magazines provide MyRecipes.com with a constant feed of tried and tested recipes deemed worthy of publication. These magazines include; Cooking Light, Southern Living, Sunset, Coastal Living, and...

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Food and Wine

If you’ve heard of the Food & Wine magazine, you may already have an idea of what you can expect from their website. More than just a source of recipes and cooking tips, Food & Wine delivers the complete culinary package of beverage reviews and pairings, an entertainment section, travel guides and restaurant reviews and listings. As part of a group including MyRecipes and...

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Jamie Oliver Recipes

Restaurants, recipes, books, kitchen utensils, campaigns; Jamie Oliver is all these things, but more importantly, Jamie Oliver is a brand. His look, personality and attitude are injected into everything he does, instantly setting his recipe site apart from others in this category. As well as a healthy collection of recipes, Jamieoliver.com has sections on his restaurants, campaigns, product range and T.V shows. As soon...

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Cooking Light

Cooking Light is one of the world’s most trusted food and lifestyle brands. Originally a magazine, the brand has now moved to the web to continue in its mission to help people “eat smart and live a healthier lifestyle”. This is done by translating cutting edge nutritional research into recipes that you can use in your own home. For this purpose, Cooking Light is...

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A-Z of Online Recipe Websites

Discontinued Online Recipe Websites

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Latest User Reviews

Garbage site
User Review of Food.com by Iowahorse on 15 September 2022

When they bought it from Recipezaar, they screwed it all up. It's a mess. I KNOW because I have a bunch of MY recipes on there. I've seen it pass thru several hands over the years, and Food.com is the... (Read the full review)

Can't use website even after signing in
User Review of Epicurious by Shay on 26 February 2022

Even after being required to create an account to view the recipes, it is a huge hassle to even deal with the website. It keeps signing me out, skipping the recipes and going straight to the reviews, giving me ads,... (Read the full review)

From great to horrible!
User Review of Allrecipes by Frustrated User on 11 March 2021

I'm an amateur cook that looks for easy, proven recipes to make for my family. My review is written form tis perspective. This website used to be a great and one I highly recommended to fiends. Unfortunately, updates over the... (Read the full review)

One of the worst websites
User Review of Allrecipes by Macedonia on 27 August 2018

This website must have the worst customer support (after Dell). I decided to delete my account, since I'm no longer using the website, but there is no option to do that anywhere in the site settings. I wrote a couple... (Read the full review)

Worst website ever
User Review of MyRecipes by Jim on 20 May 2018

I call this website the worst ever because it is so plugged with advertisements that I gave up trying to get the details of a recipe I wanted. It's unbelievable, my computer slowed down to a crawl trying to sort... (Read the full review)

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