FOOD Love: Top 5 Recipe Websites

Looking for simple and tasty or exotic and quick or haute cuisine but aren’t sure which are the best places to search for them? Here is a list of the top (well maybe not the ultimate collection but definitely one of the better ones) places on the web for food-connoisseurs, family cooking and hunger-driven lazy cooks.

The thing that stands out about these recipe websites is the fact that all featured recipes are tried and tested and allow for user commenting/reviewing, so you can be assured of the quality of the recipe. Enjoy!

Top 5: Recipe Websites (again in no particular order)

(1) GroupRecipes
Almost 100% user-contributed recipe website that does an excellent job at making huge recipe database easy to digest and browse through. Browse by flavors (spicy, sour, chilly…), images, ingredients (whats in your fridge), popularity, menus, users, and tagcloud.

(2) SimplyRecipes
A wonderful recipe-based food blog where all recipes have been personally tested by either the blogger, her family/friends. Browse recipes by primary ingredients (chicken, seafood, meat…), meal course (breakfast, desert…), diet type (veg., low carb…). The quality of the recipes is reflected in the number of subscribers (over 230k!)

(3) 101CookBooks
This one is for the foodies…the people who love to eat food with their eyes and would like a short intro for each of the recipes. Basically, another excellent recipe-based food blog (2006 food blog winner) where readers can feel a nice personal bond with the blogger through her writing style (a short personal and technical history for each recipe) along with beautiful imagery. Lets you browse recipes by type (appetizers, baked good, mains, etc.)

(4) AllRecipes
Over 40,000 recipes along with complementary extras i.e. nutritional content, user rating and an interesting meal accompaniment tool that lets you search for accompaniments such as side dish/desert/… to this recipe. Other features include recipe videos and related food guides such as healthy eating etc. (Note: website navigation is slightly confusing).

(5) Chow
Apart from recipes gives other foodie related information such as food events, user stories etc. Simply yet efficient recipe browsing method where users can browse through recipes by sides, mains, sweet and drink. Plus insightful video section which gives a good selection of videos on cooking and food etiquette howto’s.

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    2007-07-18 02:26:53

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    2007-07-18 15:35:51

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    Comment by Rado
    2007-07-19 17:29:56

    Sounds like fun.
    I will check these sites, thanks!

     
    Comment by bandung
    2007-07-27 08:00:58

    very helpful, thanks.

     
    Comment by Aibek
    2007-07-27 14:57:03

    enjoy

     
    2007-08-11 09:12:10

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    Comment by dottie
    2007-09-05 12:06:42

    Taste of Home is another great recipe site. It has a good search feature in which you indicate what ingredients you would like in a recipe and it comes up with a recipe for you. Have some sour cream, pasta, gravy and leftover chicken, but need a recipe? TOH will give you one!

     
    Comment by Maria
    2007-12-26 12:45:19

    Great sites; useful recipes. Thanks for all sites listed.

    maria

     
    Comment by Jen
    2008-01-24 05:12:24
    Comment by origamifreak
    2008-03-05 19:09:50

    Over there we’re discussing the sites mentioned here…

    Comment by origamifreak
    2008-03-05 19:12:39
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    Comment by Janet Thurner
    2008-02-14 23:55:34

    I like http://www.eatnation.com for user contributed recipes, photos, videos, menus….

     
    Comment by BB
    2008-02-28 17:05:19

    I like ifood.tv. They have more ethnic and international cuisines.

     
    Comment by origamifreak
    2008-03-05 06:14:28

    The actual hyperlink on the epicurious text in the article points to recipezaar. Here is the url for epicurious: http://www.epicurious.com

    Comment by Aibek
    2008-03-05 07:55:46

    Thank you, I have corrected it.

     
     
    Comment by Scott Ballantyne
    2008-05-06 00:42:34

    Hey, you should check out Reci-P.com . it is a new recipe website that uses social bookmarking to aggregate recipes from the web. Then, using artificial intelligence, it figures out what is the important part of the page, and saves that on the site. give it a try.

     
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