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Recipe Matcher - Find Recipes Based on Ingredients You Have
Recipematcher.com is a recipe website where you enter in all the ingredients you have and you can then search for recipes that use those ingredients (the results are sorted by which recipes require you to buy the least numbers of ingredients). It's a great idea. Too bad that updating the list of ingredients you have on hand is a major pain in the ass. I filled it out quickly and for some things I checked off the box even though I didn't have it because it's something that I have no problem buying or having extra around. Like onions, tomato sauce, or chicken breasts. I don't any of those around right now but I have no problem buying them because they will easily get used up.
The one great thing this website could be useful for is finding recipes that use ingredients I want to get rid of. It is always satisfying to get rid of an ingredient that I've had in the cupboard for months. There's no way I'm going to update this website's list of ingredients I have on hand though. I may just tweak it by adding some ingredient that I want to get rid of and then using their search option that finds recipes that MUST contain a specific ingredient. I am not so sure how useful this is as Google can pretty much too the same thing and probably has access to more recipes than this website does. I have used this Cookin' With Google form in the past. There's also Google Base Recipes, which currently contains 1.12 million recipes.
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Supercook.com and Recipematcher.com did not meet my needs for a recipe search engine so I have been developing my own Recipepuppy.com. The problem with google base is that do not give you the ingredient list, so you would have to go to the actual source of the recipe in order to perform an ingredient based search.
Thanks so much! I have used your site only once, but I really like it so far. I will recommend it to others!
There is a popular resource - recipe key - they have "Ingredient Match" - Innovative Recipe Searching Technology. Through Ingredient Match, you can automatically remove recipes that do not meet your dietary and allergy requirements. You may also instantly filter results by Meal Type, Cooking Method, Prep Time, Difficulty, Cuisine.
Have anyone tries to use this service?
Another great site is RecipeBridge.com a recipe search engine that let's you search over 1.8 million recipes from over 200 cooking websites quickly and easily.
I think it's a great idea to use this sort of thing for using up old food that has been sitting in the cupboard for too long. It's terrible to think that so many people throw food out because they haven't used it before the sell-by date. It's would also come in handy for those days when you only have a few ingredients in the kitchen and you can't be bothered to go out to the shops for more supplies.
Great website here i didn't know it. I also like to use visualrecipes.com to find new recipes. I highly recommend it!
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