KeyIngredient.com - Share and Discover Great Recipes

KeyIngredient.com is a site for cooks to organize their recipes and share their secrets with others. You can create your own online cookbook which you can choose to be private or pubic. You can type in your recipes and organize as you like at KeyIngredient.com or you can choose the scan my recipes option. The scan my recipes option is a service that allows you to send KeyIngredient.com all of your written recipes that KeyIngredient.com will type and add onto your virtual cookbook. There is a fee for this service and you must have at least 50 recipes to use the service. You can see how much this service will cost you directly on the site. You can also print your own cookbook of your favorite recipes. You choose which recipes you want to be included in your cookbook, you can then choose a title, sub title, and a cover image. You can preview your cookbook to make sure there is nothing you want to change. The pricing is listed once you have made your cookbook and there are discounts for ordering more than one book. If you are looking for a specific recipe you can use the search engine and browse through the collection of recipes. KeyIngredient.com is a community, you can join groups and make comments about recipes. If you love cooking and learning more about new recipes KeyIngredient.com is a great site to visit.

"Like personal photos, recipes reflect a unique aspect of the person who cooks from them. At a minimum, storing recipes online preserves them. Ask anyone who has lost their home what they miss most, and their recipe collection is often in the top 5 things. Your recipes on Key Ingredient can be preserved as a completely private collection, but opening some of your recipes to friends and family, or even to the public, increases their value exponentially. We believe that sharing your recipes is a wonderful act of generosity and of self-expression. We also believe that recipes in digital form are the ultimate "social object". Recipes create the basis for an identity in a community of people who love to cook. And they lead to new discoveries: if you like a recipe in a cook's collection, it's quite possible that they will like some of yours. As you save recipes on Key Ingredient, your collection acts as a filter for all of the recipe content on the Internet. Friends and other cooks can rely on your collection as a trusted, tested resource. Recipes spread, take on a life of their own and serve as the connection between people. As you modify and tweak recipes to your personal taste, your collection will become even more valuable to you and the people you share them with. After all, people are the best search engines on Earth, and Key Ingredient brings people together”

KeyIngredient.com has an attractive interface. The logo with the pot is very cute and suits the focus of the site. The site is easy to navigate and has a very useful FAQ section along with a clear mission statement. There is also a video tour that takes you through all of the different features at KeyIngredient.com. The search engine allows you to be very precise in your search by subtracting ingredients or adding ingredients. KeyIngredient.com does a good job at telling you how to use the search engine to get the results you want. KeyIngredient.com even allows you to print cookbooks of your favorite recipes. Each printed book cost $11.95. The cookbooks would be a great gift idea.

KeyIngredient.com could organize recipes by category so that you have another option for finding them besides searching for them. Can you add more images to your cookbook besides the cover? There could be contests for the best recipes in certain categories, such as deserts or soups. Users could vote on the best recipes.