We wondered how long it would be before someone came up with this. For those of you who love to cook and collect recipes (or if you’re like me just make them up), you know how, after a few months, you’ve got clippings, index cards, matchbook covers, napkins, etc. all stuck in a box you call your “recipe” box. What do you think this is? 1877?
This is the 21st century, you know! You don’t have to keep all those papers, and napkins, and index cards jammed in a box. You can save them to your own special account online – even print them if you really feel the need for the paper. I guess you’d have to unless you keep you iPad or laptop on your kitchen counter. You do cook in your kitchen, right?
Anyway, we’ve discovered a site that lets you create an account for free, and store all your recipes online. As far as we could see – there wasn’t a single advertisement on the site. Which does make us wonder: how do they pay for this site? Then again, Twitter and Facebook didn’t have ads for a long time. Now they do. You gotta pay the bills sooner or later.
But still, this site is a great idea and we wanted to tell you about it because we like to be first. That way you can say – I heard it first from Cloudeight. Then maybe your friends will like us too. Right!
Our site pick today is called “Cup and a half” and it’s all about recipes – YOUR recipes!
Heres what “Cup and a half” has to say:
“Over time, you have collected all sorts of recipes from books, from TV shows, from your dear granny, and, of course, from the many great cooking websites on the internet. The result? A cumbersome and unwieldy mess… shelves full of cookbooks, boxes filled with scraps of paper, piles of empty DVD cases, and your browser’s bookmarks stretched beyond recognition.
“No worries. Cup and a half is a free service that makes it possible for you to keep an online cookbook where all your recipes are in one place, well organized and always accessible. ”
Here’s the feature list:
“Cup and a half is a free service that makes it possible for you to keep an online cookbook where all your recipes are in one place, well organized and always accessible.
- Simple, useful, and elegant workarea. Ease of use is at the heart of the design of Cup and a half. Entering, viewing, modifying a recipe is a matter of seconds.
- Categorized cookbook. Six categories and five subcategories are created by default when you first register. You are given complete freedom to create new categories and subcategories, rename or delete existing ones, and change the order in which they are displayed in your cookbook.
- Personal search engine. Your cookbook is always indexed and ready for you to search for recipes that contain certain keywords (e.g., butter, green peppers) in some or all fields (e.g., ingredients, directions) and in some or all categories.
- Flexible recipe layout. Enter as much or as little information as you think is necessary for each recipe. You can modify and update your recipes at any time.
- Built-in cooking measure calculator (temperature, volume, weight, length). Quickly convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit, from cups or tablespoons to milliliters, from ounces to grams, or from inches to centimeters. Unsual measures are available too (e.g., dash, pinch, barleycorn) as well as a collection of international measures.”
If you love to cook, you’ll love our Cloudeight Website pick! Go forth and organize those recipes and more! Visit our site pick Cup and a half right now. And don’t forget to tell your friends about it – and us too!