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New York
1 review
9 helpful votes
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IPhone user here. Since the change I'm getting ads that I can't get rid of and the pages load so slowly that it takes twice as long for me to finish a recipe.
Another minor annoyance is how it opens up another tab every time I click 'see instructions and video' Something funny going on, here. I just want to look at the recipe!

I used to love this site and had many great go-to recipes. Wish I could access them more easily.

Date of experience: August 25, 2017
Japan
6 reviews
5 helpful votes
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This site contains so many cooking recipes I've never seen, I do like these delicate food pics, but there are really too many choices to make a quick decision. You might meet an unpalatable recipe if you randomly pick one, or spend too much time to find the best one. A good place to try new tastes.

Date of experience: May 23, 2018
Georgia
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Less Than Worthless
October 2, 2017

A cook has always had to keep in mind that anyone could post any untested, unpalatable nonsense to AllRecipes and call it a "recipe." The sort function helped weed out the worst culinary offenses quickly. Careful reading of the reviews posted by cooks who had prepared the dish would then result in a decent recipe.

So, of course, the site has been "redesigned" to eliminate the only feature that made the site remotely useful. If I could block AllRecipes from ever appearing among my search results again, I would. I certainly won't bother to click on AllRecipes again.

Good luck with that ad revenue AllRecipes! Mm-Bye-bye.

Date of experience: October 2, 2017
Wisconsin
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I used to go to this site for a majority of recipes. Something has changed. I couldn't even get on site. Uninstalled and reinstalled. Signed up years ago and have my email and password saved. When I tried to log in, it said it didn't recognize my email address. For years I only had 1 email address so I know I sign in with my "go to" address, but said it was"not found". Lost all of my saved recipes. Site has great recipes, but the new design is awful

Date of experience: June 26, 2023
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Hi,
April 2, 2011

Hi,
I absolutely love the website but unfortunately for some reason I cannot access "My Recipes" box. This has happened 3 times since I have been a member (about Nov/Dec 2010). It is so disappointing as I can't get to the super recipes I have saved and can't save any of the latest ones. Please help! I am using an iPad 1 if it will help. Thanks so much. Helen

Date of experience: April 2, 2011
Virginia
1 review
28 helpful votes
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Idiots
January 13, 2018

Bunch of Morons. Poll your users before making idiotic changes to your site; cannot sort by reviews of recipes. Took away vital and useful user tools. Seems to me like you took this function away to possibly have users stay longer on your site by making them hunt for recipes to get a higher engagement score and lower bounce rate... in reality you probably have missed the mark. I bet most of us long time users are leaving very quickly now or not coming at all...

Date of experience: January 13, 2018
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Besides my own personal history gone I can't even find what I'm looking for. Chef John baked ziti. Gone! No, I can go to YouTube find the video scroll for the all recipes link and get sent back to AR to find the recipe. Dumb. Doable but dumb.

Date of experience: July 25, 2023
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Love this site
April 29, 2013

Love this site. Especially benefit from others' comments on posted recipes. Videos are incredible as a learning tool. Ingredient lookup function is priceless when you have leftovers and want to combine them/use them up. Very few sites that I'm faithful to and this is one!

Date of experience: April 29, 2013
Oklahoma
6 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Brilliant!
June 6, 2014

Brilliant! Easy to use site that let's you look up names of recipes, or search my ingredients. Each recipe is reviewed by those who have tried it and so you get honest feedback. I teach a cooking skill session at my church for young women and I always tell them about this awesome go to site for recipes and meal ideas.

Date of experience: June 6, 2014
Georgia
1 review
9 helpful votes
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This used to be my go-to because I could sort by rating. It is worthless now. Please fired the person that overlooked this and take these user reviews to heart. Bring back that feature before you blow it forever. Thanks!

Date of experience: February 12, 2018
North Carolina
8 reviews
22 helpful votes
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I love getting recipes from this website. I've got 7 grandchildren that are always hungry and I'm always looking for new things to make. Searching the site for something new is easy and convenient as you can search by ingredient.

Date of experience: May 13, 2014
Washington
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Unable to use site.
July 23, 2019

I have gotten several good recipes from this site but for the past few months the website has not functioned properly. It skips around and won't stay on a page. One could get nauseated if you watched it for too long. Too bad, it was good.at one time.

Date of experience: July 23, 2019
Washington
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Used to be one of my favorite websites. Today I find it utterly frustrating and a huge waste of time. I have trouble finding popular recipes that I've used in the past and loathe no longer being able to sort for what I'm looking for. The site simply assumes it knows best anymore. Miss the old version - RIP.

Date of experience: January 27, 2018
Georgia
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Dreadfully Awful
November 1, 2016

I have been using this site for years (probably a decade) and this update is the absolute worst I have ever seen. (Funny enough the Food Network site is really lousy too but this is worse.) I agree with the many comments so I will not repeat them

However, I did send an email to their technical team to ask them to STOP insulting our intelligence with that stuff on java and cookies. They want to play with the big media dogs but apparently do not have the talent or skills. They should stick to what they did best and the people will come.

Date of experience: November 1, 2016
GB
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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I enjoy experimenting with the food and cooking. Found this website a while ago while searching for some recipes. I'm glad for finding it very quickly. So many recipes any reason from breakfast, lunch, celebrities to many more. Thanks for sharing wonderful ideas

Date of experience: February 15, 2013
Illinois
1 review
10 helpful votes
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The site used to be great, but it's so overrun with ads that it's incredibly slow and crashes often. I usually start by trying out this site but end up going to others because of these technical issues.

Date of experience: April 24, 2017
Maine
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This used to be my go-to place for ideas. Not anymore! A cheesecake recipe and "how to cook steak" came up when I did an ingredient search for shrimp+bacon+barbecue sauce! To quote my sister, "What the what the?"

Date of experience: January 7, 2018
Illinois
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Slooooow!
October 20, 2016

I used to come on allrecipes at least once or twice a week, sometimes more. It was my "go-to" for all my meals. I cannot handle how slow it is now. What happened? I can't use this site anymore and it makes me sad. I hope it gets fixed soon.

Date of experience: October 20, 2016
Georgia
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Good bye unloyal friend.
February 10, 2017

I've been using Allrecipes pretty much since they started. Loved it, best invention ever. It revolutionized the way I found and organized recipes and gave me a place to compile my own recipes online. They started messing with it several years ago combining with Dinner Spinner (still not sure what that is). Requiring me to change to the new app. Then they tried to change it into a social network sight and completely confused the formatting. I can no longer make notes to recipes about any substitutions or changes I made to someone else's recipes or even my own that I have tweaked. That's a game changer for me! I cook almost everyday and can't remember all the little changes I make. I need to make notes people! Also there was a time when you could use your tablet to create a new recipe but now you can only do it from your laptop.

Date of experience: February 10, 2017
GB
1 review
6 helpful votes
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It used to be my go-to site, then they decided to "upgrade" it to be more like pintrest. Now it is useless. I have not found and made a single recipe from there since. The add or remove ingredients could be good but is very poorly implemented, I am allergic to vinegar and to remove that as an ingredient I'd have to remove every single type separately but they don't allow enough. I've tried a few times since but now the search just sticks on "waiting", and never loads. Good while it lasted, now a complete waste of time.

Date of experience: October 26, 2018

Overview

AllRecipes has a rating of 1.8 stars from 230 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with AllRecipes most frequently mention new format, email address and many times. AllRecipes ranks 85th among Recipe sites.

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