#RECIPE PROGRAMS FOR MAC REVIEWS MAC#
Want to stay up-to-date with the latest Gems? Sign up for the Mac Gems newsletter for a weekly e-mail summary of Gems reviews sent directly to your inbox. If all of the features worked flawlessly, SousChef would be right up there with the best of the recipe apps. The developer is actively working on fixes for some of the problems cited here.
However, the version of the program I tested was too buggy and some of the features did not work precisely as advertised. The import feature is fun, and importing recipes from the cloud presents lots of opportunities for variety. SousChef 1.2 is enjoyable and easy to learn for people looking for a simple way to gather and share their recipes and cook and shop. In addition, the scales are relative rather than absolute (you can double, triple, and quadruple a recipe or halve it), but, in this version, you can’t revert to the original values. Not wrong, but hard to visualize and not terribly elegant. In changing the number of servings for example, 3/4ths of a cup became 6/4ths instead of a cup and a half. There were small anomalies in trying to scale recipes. And while the documentation says you can import recipes from recipe Web sites via the Services menu, that feature does not work. When I tried to edit a recipe, it gave me an error message says “Multiple Validation Errors Occurred” and there’s no way to figure out what that means. There are a few things that don’t work as expected. You can automatically create a shopping list from any recipe and then check off the items you already have. Checkboxes next to each item let you check off ingredients you already have and it’s easy to add more items to the shopping list, even if they’re not part of a recipe. You can then access that list from the sidebar. You can choose a recipe and then create a grocery list from it. SousChef gives you an elegant way to create grocery lists. Of course, you can always edit the substitute into the recipe manually. However, this feature did not always work, either because the quantity was not specified or there was a variation in the ingredient such as 2% milk instead of just milk. After that, anytime those ingredients appear in a recipe, the alternate ingredients are available to choose. For example, if you always use margarine instead of butter, or soymilk instead of cow milk, you can make those substitutions in the prefs. In the Preferences pane, you can designate universal ingredient substitutes. The only automatic, one-click import, ironically, is for competitor MacGourmet ( ).
#RECIPE PROGRAMS FOR MAC REVIEWS PDF#
pdf formats for both import and export (and, additionally. The program supports text, rich text, and text-based.
Sous Chef’s interface is pleasing and easy to understand but it still has some bugs. You can also designate the metric system for ingredient measurements, which is a huge convenience for anyone who doesn’t live in the U.S. Placing images couldn’t be easier: Just drag and drop an image from a Web site or your hard drive into the recipe template’s picture well. From there, an innovative environment lets you select and tag text for sections like Ingredients, Directions, Notes, Time, Yield, Category, and more. A recipe importer lets you copy and paste an entire file into an import template. Importing recipes is intuitive, and works the same way for all sources, such as Web sites or text.
SousChef opens to reveal a pleasant interface, and if you’re familiar with Apple apps such as iTunes and Address Book, you’ll immediately respond to its visual cues. However, it’s simple, friendly, easy on the eyes, and offers some appealing and practical capabilities. It’s not super automated, nor does it have an abundance of specialized sections. The programs I’ve seen recently vary according to how much detail the user wants, and how much customization and automation they require. Recipe programs cater to different types of cooks: Some are looking for ease of use in importing and exporting recipes from their favorite Web sites others are concerned with having a variety of import and export options available to view and share recipes while at friends’ homes still others want to record every detail down to the grocery store aisle where ingredients are available. SousChef 1.2 is a compact program with an iTunes-RSS feed sensibility that can help you get your meal off to a good start. As recipe collection moves out of the card box and into the computer, there has emerged a small cadre of Mac programs designed to help you find, categorize, share, display, and cook your food.
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