AllRecipesReviews 229

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.

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...

Like many others, I've frequented this site for many, many years. There were thousands of user-submitted recipes, and tens of thousands of ratings + reviews to guide you. Now, that most critical feature of the website has been rendered useless due to some idiot removing the ability to sort recipes by rating.

I understood when the site started turning into more of an online magazine, although I did not see the use of it. I bristled when they intrusively started "suggesting" where I could buy the ingredients for my recipes nearby, and at what price. But losing the ability to figure out which recipe is best, as crowd-decided by thousands like me? Sorry, but someone should be fired and publicly shamed for stupidity. It's like Burger King decided to stop selling burgers; I only went there for one thing, and now it's gone.

All Recipes was my favorite and most used recipe website until now. Searching for recipes was better than any other website. That is no longer the case. When I search it looks like Pinterest instead of arranged evenly on the page like it was in the old format. Plus the search results are so poor. Items totally different than what I am searching for pull up and good matches to the search are several screens back. I can no longer print personal notes with my recipes. Since all cooks alter recipes, it seems like this would be a huge feature for everyone. I am glad I can still add my personal notes but these are only available on the webpage. For my favorite recipes I like to keep them printed out with my personal notes - just in case the recipe is removed from the site. Now I print them and have to hand write my personal notes on them. I am so disappointed with the new format and I now Google for recipes or use Pintrest instead of AllRecipes.

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.

Allrecipes.com used to be my ONLY go-to site for recipes but now I hate it. The user interface is confusing, cluttered and most importantly there is NO SORT OPTION. In the past my habit was to type in a general term like "chocolate cake" etc. and when it pulled up 100+ cakes the next thing I did was to sort according to user reviews so I always got to see the most tried and liked recipes. But... no more! For some totally bizarre reason they've completely done away with that most important option. I will never understand why companies do this... take a system or product that works and that everyone loves and then change it to where lots of people hate it! I now tend to totally skip allrecipes and go straight to google to look for recipes. I wish they'd go back to the simple, precise and awesome system they used to have before they totally ruined it.