Cookadvice.com - Recipes, Tips and Dictionary 2.0

Recently redesigned CookAdvice is a nice looking recipe site with a large database of recipes and photos. Users are able to comment on already existing recipes or add their own recipe making this a constantly growing culinary site. Also included is a forums section where people can share best practices or ask questions and a blog section for sharing photos and ideas. Search by keyword, ingredients, preparation, course, cuisine, occasion, dietary or special food type and get rapid, accurate results. There are also sections for cooking tips, step-by-step instructions, and a dictionary for looking up unfamiliar cooking terms and products. Lastly, CookAdvice also provides you with a conversion tool in case you are unsure of how to convert pounds to kilograms etcetera.

“This is a web2.0 recipe collection. So, this site contains a lot of recipes, grouped by different categories, such as ingredients, cuisines, courses, dietary & special occasions recipes. There are special step-by-step photo-recipes and video-recipes with detailed clear descriptions which make a process of cooking easy and understandable. Also we hope you will find useful our culinary dictionary and features for conversing measurements. All recipes can be rated and commented.”

People will like the impressive number of recipes, intelligent searching options and the ability to be able to interact and share with other cooks around the world.

Perhaps they could consider allowing users to vote on their favorite recipe by food type? This would encourage more user participation while at the same time allowing for self-regulation of the recipes.