rennea
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Discussion Overview
The thread centers around how participants organize their recipes, sharing various personal methods and experiences. Participants discuss the challenges of managing numerous recipes and the different systems they have developed to keep track of them.
Discussion Character
- Anecdotal
- Opinion-based
Main Points Raised
- One participant, identifying as a consultant, mentions using a large recipe file with an index to organize their recipes, although they admit their system is not perfect.
- Another participant shares their experience of using a small recipe box and saving most recipes on their computer, while also flagging cookbooks with post-it notes.
- Several users express a humorous take on the idea of writing recipes on index cards, with one participant joking about the impracticality of it.
- One participant describes using a binder with sheet protectors to store printed recipes, allowing for easy cleaning and access, despite a lack of organization within the binder.
- Another participant discusses their method of cutting recipes from magazines and attaching them to recipe cards, highlighting the challenge of categorizing recipes effectively.
- One participant notes that they print recipes twice if they fit into multiple categories, ensuring they can find them easily.
Areas of Agreement / Disagreement
Views differ on the best method for organizing recipes, with no clear consensus emerging on a single effective system.
Contextual Notes
Participants share a variety of personal experiences and preferences regarding recipe organization, reflecting individual approaches rather than a standardized method.
Who May Find This Useful
Consultants looking for inspiration on how to manage their recipe collections may find the shared experiences relevant.
ChefBeckyD
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Well, since the invention of the computer 
.......LOL..... No, seriously, I used to have them all over too. But I did finally get a huge recipe file (Like a foot deep) and made up an index, and filed them all. I used to pretend that I was going to get them all written up on index cards - but I've given up on that fantasy, and now I just file them in whatever form I have them in.
I also have "recipe boxes" online with Allrecipes.com, Recipezaar, Epicurius, Taste of Home online, oh - and a great thing that I did was to stop saving all of my TOH cookbooks - I pass them off to other people, and at the end of each year, order the cookbook which has all of the recipes from the year in it.
My system is by no means perfect - but when I get a chance I'll be back to let you know what my categories are - the ones you find already printed for recipe files just were never specific enough for me!
.......LOL..... No, seriously, I used to have them all over too. But I did finally get a huge recipe file (Like a foot deep) and made up an index, and filed them all. I used to pretend that I was going to get them all written up on index cards - but I've given up on that fantasy, and now I just file them in whatever form I have them in.I also have "recipe boxes" online with Allrecipes.com, Recipezaar, Epicurius, Taste of Home online, oh - and a great thing that I did was to stop saving all of my TOH cookbooks - I pass them off to other people, and at the end of each year, order the cookbook which has all of the recipes from the year in it.
My system is by no means perfect - but when I get a chance I'll be back to let you know what my categories are - the ones you find already printed for recipe files just were never specific enough for me!
janetupnorth
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My mom has a recipe program she actually enters them all in.I have a small recipe box but save most to my computer or know where to find them online.Otherwise, I have post-in notes flagging my cookbooks or just remember where to look. I like to sit down on occasion and browse the TOH books. 
I often cook with my laptop on the kitchen table and a recipe up...only problem is wiping my hands to move my finger on the touch pad to keep the screensaver from going on!!!! I have this aversion to food or drink near my laptop!!!!
I often cook with my laptop on the kitchen table and a recipe up...only problem is wiping my hands to move my finger on the touch pad to keep the screensaver from going on!!!! I have this aversion to food or drink near my laptop!!!!
ChefBeckyD
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janetupnorth said:My mom has a recipe program she actually enters them all in.
I have a small recipe box but save most to my computer or know where to find them online.
Otherwise, I have post-in notes flagging my cookbooks or just remember where to look. I like to sit down on occasion and browse the TOH books.
I often cook with my laptop on the kitchen table and a recipe up...only problem is wiping my hands to move my finger on the touch pad to keep the screensaver from going on!!!! I have this aversion to food or drink near my laptop!!!!
LOL - that sounds just like me!
janetupnorth
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ChefBeckyD
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rennea
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janetupnorth
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rennea
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rennea
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chefann said:She probably hand-calligraphs them, and then laminates them using an ancient and almost-lost laminating technique that she rediscovered in an obscure library in the middle of Europe.
HA!! You know Ann I used to laminate all my recipe cards:blushing: I still laminate all the recipe cards that come with all our products.
I also laminate take-out menus:blushing: :blushing:
ChefBeckyD
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chefann said:She probably hand-calligraphs them, and then laminates them using an ancient and almost-lost laminating technique that she rediscovered in an obscure library in the middle of Europe.
LOL! I have a friend who always used to joke about her (MS) obscure ingredients for recipes - such as making a simple kumquat preserve...."and of course, we can find those kumquats at any fine kumquat store".....
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Chef Kearns
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I'm a paper person. I have a 2" binder that I keep empty sheet protectors in and print off recipes that I want to try or that I create or that I LOVE. I like it because I can just wipe the recipe off when I spill something on it and I know right where they all are. Now...they are not organized within the binder. I've got pie crust recipes next to Corned Beef and Cabbage, but a little bit of flipping is acceptable to me.
Kitchen Diva
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rennea said:Maybe we should write Martha and ask her what she does!! I bet she uses her computer. I really lazy and can't bear the thought of writing them all out on index cards. Would be nice though
You could pay me to do it for you! I just bought 100 4x6 index cards today to start writing down some of the recipes I've made up and to clean out my 2 recipe boxes... I've been looking online for a new recipe box that can hold 3x5AND 4x6 recipe cards... I too have some of the TOH cookbooks, but also have quite a few of the magazines left. I just cut the recipes out, and tape them to a recipe card on the top only so I can flip it to read the back- I use double stick tape, or a glue stick...it works well.
I'd like to hear the titles of people's recipe index cards because I think the prebought ones are either too vague, or have too many dividers, and if a recipe falls under more than one category, it never fails I'll put it under the one I will never look under and then write the recipe down on a card and then have two copies that I'll never be able to find!
LOL
dannyzmom
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I have a REALLY thick ninder. And in it I use protective plastic sleeves for each page. I print the recipe and slip it into the sleeve. Then I have dividers breaking the notebook down into "Poultry/Beef/Veal/Stews/Breads/Desserts,Appetizers"
If a particular recipe that I like a whole lot fits under mroe than one category, sometimes I'll print it twice and put it in both.
If a particular recipe that I like a whole lot fits under mroe than one category, sometimes I'll print it twice and put it in both.
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