Comments on: Connoisseur: Measuring Cup With Kick

By: Joseph Henry

Joseph Henry — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:20:58 +0000

I’ve not done it myself but YummySoup has an “open import file>Connoisseur Recipe File” option. Download YS and give the demo a try:

http://hungryseacow.com/HungrySeacow/YummySoup%21_-_recipe_management_at_its_best%21.html

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By: Cindy

Cindy — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:03:15 +0000

Do not buy anything Connoisseur – it broke when I upgraded to OS 10.5, emailed Thelittleapp factory for weeks – never got a reply. I’ve lost all the time I spent importing my recipes unless I want to export 2400 recipes one at a time.

Has anyone found an app that will import the .recipe files from connoisseur?

By: David

David — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:23:46 +0000

agree with Joe, do NOT buy this app. i had the same experience. try either MacGourmet (which i’m using now and love) or YummySoup!

By: Joi

Joi — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:16:26 +0000

I recommend shop n cook menu

http://www.shopncook.com/

By: YummySoup vs Connoisseur | MacApper

YummySoup vs Connoisseur | MacApper — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:49:44 +0000

[...] back, I reviewed Connoisseur as a more fully-featured alternative to Measuring Cup for organizing and using recipes on your Mac. [...]

By: wdympcf

wdympcf — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:52:07 +0000

It would seem that this app is quite out of date and possibly no longer supported. What about reviewing something like MacGourmet (which is still under active development as of January 29, 2008)? How does MacGourmet compare to YummySoup? I would be very interested to read that article.

By: Bruce A

Bruce A — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:09:44 +0000

I bought Connoisseur a couple years ago. Wish I hadn’t. It’s not been updated in forever, and recipe entry is stilted and awkward. Looks good, but looks aren’t everything.

By: Emily McCutcheon

Emily McCutcheon — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:04:31 +0000

In response to the comments: I’m looking at YummySoup now. I also e-mailed the people at Little App Factory but got no reply. Thanks for the heads up!

By: sarah

sarah — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:12:03 +0000

I agree with Joe and you should not buy this product. I bought it a couple of years ago and it abruptly stopped saving recipes, wasting hours of my time inputting recipes. I emailed support and they assured me the next revision would be available within the week. That was almost two years ago now and they have not responded to my many emails since. I have yet to find a good solution (especially one that will take my connoisseur data). I was hoping the Cookbook app would be available (http://mydreamapp.com/) but the last update on info was July. I would love to hear what other people are using

By: alex

alex — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:43:56 +0000

when i used measuring cup, i loved it. i took the time to input 30 recipes. then pressed save.
when i did that, it automatically shut off.
then when i reopened it, everything was gone.

every time i quit or save, everything is erased

did anyone else have that problem?
is it for leopard(i have tiger still)?
or am i just doing it wrong?

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:56:02 +0000

Joe, you had me at “allrecipes.com” … Thanks!

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:48:42 +0000

Lee,
YummySoup’s web import works superbly. Just drag and drop the recipe URL (from these websites: AllRecipes.com, Deliaonline.com, Epicurious.com, FoodNetwork.com, MarthaStewart.com & RachaelRayMag.com.) to YummySoup and YS automatically imports everything for the recipe and puts it all in the right places. If you want to import from a site thats not in the supported list (the developer is constantly adding new sites), the AnySite Importer works very well.

It’s a nice program and I highly recommend it.

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:43:07 +0000

Joe’s comments has me worried. Can you guys do a review of YummySoup to complete the showdown? The web importing feature is huge …

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:25:49 +0000

Under no circumstance should you give these people your money. My mom bought this app last year and when she upgraded to Leopard Connisseur broke. That’s not the bad part. I sent at least an email per week for 2 months to support trying to get a fix but never got a reply. I finally tracked down someone who used to work for TLAF but he was in Pakistan for the year and couldn’t really help.

I don’t think anyone is actively developing anymore at TLAF and there sure as heck isn’t anyone providing tech support.

They’ll sell you the app for sure. Just don’t count on getting any support. Ever.

My mom and I both switched to YummySoup and we’re both very happy.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:20:15 +0000

Great app! Wouldn’t it be great to have an open recipe document format – so that everybody can share recipes – well, perhaps I am too geeky