Yum - 3.2.0

I was just evaluating a couple recipe managers and Yum won hands down.

Yum just let me paste the whole text all in one go and separated everything out into measurement, unit and ingredient. Every other app I tried required me to enter all the ingredients one by one. For some I even had to do the measurements, units and ingredient in their own fields.

If you ever copy whole recipes then there is no other recipe manager coming even close.

Two small wishes: a) picture, b) category (in particular smart categories)

This is an excellent piece of software. The GUI is slick and is very intuitive. If you're like me and cut and paste recipes from the internet then this is the software to store them in. It places the quantities, ingredients, and cooking method in discreet areas. It can print or email a shopping list and can save to an iPod or save as plain text. Best of all you can scale the recipe to serve 2 or a banquet. One thing I would like to see in a future upgrade is a place for a picture. Note: There is a sampler Yum cookbook that comes with the download and does have a few recipes that have metric measurements but most are not.This software is for your recipes and will have misspelled words if you misspell them and the measurements are the measurements you enter. I give Yum a big thumbs up!

I have no problem with the developers charging for good software, but for those like me that see this new release in VersionTracker and see it listed as Freeware... it's not. And it's no longer Tiger friendly.

I don't know if it's Shareware or Commercial, but their website lists the price as $19.95. A demo version is available for download.

/Marty

The ingredient measurements are not in US form. kg??

Good:

• Individual serve scaling

Bad:

• No automated filtering or classification of recipes
• No shopping list
• No weekly meal planner

The programs I tested, roughly in order of preference were:

1. Connoisseur 1.1.7 (great interface)
2. A Cook's Books 0.9.19 (feature rich)
3. Shop'NCook 3.1 (includes nutritional database)
4. Organized Gourmet 1.2 (calendar based meal planning)
5. MacGourmet 1.1.7 (attractive interface, includes wine notes)
6. iCuistot 1.1.1 (includes nutritional database — sort of)
7. Kitchen 1.0 (simple interface)
8. Yum 0.7.8 (simple recipe manager)
9. Measuring Cup 1.1.1 (simple interface)
10. CookWare Deluxe 2.1 (includes a very basic meal planner)
11. The Computer Cookbook 3.1

Note: There are many others that I didn't test at all because they looked less promising, based on their descriptions and other people's reviews. There is one commercial product (TheRecipeManager) I refuse to test because of the developer's crazy policy of buy before you try. While I have tried to give a fair and honest appraisal of each product, I don't pretend that each review is exhaustive or totally without error. If I have overlooked any feature, it's possibly an indication that the feature was difficult to find or unintuitive to use.