Epicurious Recipe Clipper
This is awesome. Like crazy awesome. If you are not familiar, it's a little toolbar widget that allows one to clip and import recipes from any website to an epicurious.com recipe box with a mouse click. It even imports the photo.
The epicurious.com website has been one of my top go-to recipe sites for years and years. I've always kept a fairly big recipe box there--the recipes are diverse and reliable or at least true to the user reviews, and one doesn't have to sift through 20 box-cake-mix type "recipes" to find a good version of something. I've also loved the recipe box as a way to keep track of the recipes I'd seen in Gourmet (and BA, before it became atrocious in every way) that I wanted to remember to make. This new little feature makes it better times ten.
Perhaps I am a luddite and something like this has existed prior to now? In any case, a huge thumbs up for making internet recipe collecting better and easier.
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Will Owen
Jan 25, 2013 12:35 PM
I just highlight, copy and paste any recipe I want into a text document - TextEdit on the Mac - and save them in that format. Also makes it easy to edit the recipe, as often becomes necessary for one or more reasons. One thing I used to not bother about, but do now, is to insert any attribution that should be included. This is mostly to ensure that I won't forget where it came from and post it in answer to some query here five or six years from now. If I change it significantly, though, I figure it's mine.
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ttoommyy
Jan 23, 2013 11:50 AM
I downloaded the widget, went through all the steps to save 2 recipes, but when I open my recipe box, they are not saved although I have been told "Success! they have been saved." Wonder if it is because I am using a Mac? I will try it on my PC at home tonight when I get home from work. Thanks splatgirl; if I can get this to work it seems like a great tool!
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splatgirl
Jan 23, 2013 01:19 PM
I'm a Linux girl so I can't comment on the Mac vs. pc thing, but try logging out and then back in. I had that problem the first time I tried it, too, but when I went back a day or so later, there were the recipes I had clipped. It's worked perfectly for me ever since.
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