Recipe Archive and Organization:  

With an advanced search engine, a Top Searches menu and detailed categories, finding a recipe is quick and easy. Best of all, most categories feature helpful resources and advice to help ensure that your finished creations end in success, without smoke alarms, burnt edges or any other hindrances.

Culinary Appeal:  

With a recipe-base as large as All Recipes’, cooks, aficionados and food lovers of all levels and calibers will find recipes that suit their tastes. However, despite offering detailed seasonal and holiday-oriented portals, All Recipes offers little in the way of current culinary trends. Also, those looking to take their love of food out of their own kitchens and try out different restaurants, bars and other venues will be disappointed to find no listings and reviews.

Community:  

While many Online Recipe and Entertaining sites are desperately trying to get their community features off the ground with increased numbers, All Recipes boasts a very large, international community that allows members to exchange recipes, give tips, tell stories and seek advice. All Recipes also frequently hosts contests and provides sweepstakes links for its community members.

Resources:  

Finding the perfect recipe is only half the battle, fortunately All Recipes offers several resources to help you follow through. With video tutorials, articles, how-to guides and plenty of community resources, All Recipes help cooks of all calibers take their skills to the next level.

Help/Support:  

Along with a detailed site map and an in-depth FAQ section, All Recipes provides an email address for technical support questions not addressed in the FAQ section and to give site feedback. For recipe and cooking-related topics, All Recipes’ hosts topical forums to assist its members.

All Recipes greatest strength lies in its encyclopedic listing of any and all recipes. If there is a recipe you have in mind, even an idea of a recipe, All Recipes is likely to have it. However, given the direction that many Online Recipe and Entertaining Sites are now taking, building community features, current trends and reports, restaurant and bar listings and reviews, All Recipes seems more like a recipe reference site, limited by its recipe-centric focus that neglects matters of entertainment, presentation, current events and other matters.