Do You Still Buy and Use Cookbooks?

i don't have any recipe books at all, i just look up everything on the internet. there's this really good website called Recipe Zaar

I used to buy a lot of cookbooks till a few years back. But thanks to the internet, I've stopped buying any cookbooks though I have to admit that I do get tempted when I see one...lol. Even when I get good recipes off the net, I make it a point to write it down in my little notebook...instead of checking out the net every single time.

I just bought some great cookbooks for Indian and Vietnamese cooking. I have not used them yet though because I don't have a kitchen right now.

Hello GoGirl49! When I was a little, and was starting to learn how to cook, I really like to buy cook books. But now, I don't anymore for all that I need to know, I can search for them online. And I also love experimenting too. So in short cook books is not for me anymore.

I can't agree with you anymore. In my eyes, I guess most people here have not bought these cookbooks for a long time. With the development of the Internet, more and more tend to surf on the Internet. Whenever we need the recipes, then we will visit some ebook or video sites relevant to cooking, which is convenient and free completely. Compared with buying cookbooks, we can save some money and find the latest recipes as quickly as possible. I guess more and more people will choose the Internet instead of cookbooks in the future and these cookbooks will be washed out sooner or later.

No, I really don't use cookbooks that much, unless the cover catches my eye. And then I usually just rent them from the library. I always get my recipes from my grandma, or the internet. Easiest way to do it, instead of having to thumb through a cookbook.

I use my cookbooks about half the time and the internet the other half. I have a couple of recipe books I will not part with. One is a really old book that was my mom's and has some wonderful recipes from New Mexico and another is a complete book of recipes I got about 30 years ago and has everything you can think of in it. I also have one Betty Crocker recipe book that has a couple of favorites in also. I have found some pretty awesome recipes online as well.

When I was newly married I bought a number of cookbooks to help me prepare decent food for my husband. I received some also as gifts from my friends. Now they're all there in the bookshelf gathering dust and dirt. I have mastered my husband's favorite dishes (thanks to these cookbooks). While they served me well when I needed them, they have become obsolete now. Whenever I want a new dish I just check the internet and presto, the recipe is there complete with pictures and full instructions. But I still prefer to keep my cookbooks, for sentimental value, and for collection.

Hello GoGirls149 this is checkmail and often do cook some food from the receipe books avail at mine home, and it tastes really good.Well my mom used to buy the receipe books in her days, but now only buy if any exhibition takes place.According to me the old receipe books contains the more taste in its receipe and in the new receipe books it contains time savin receipes, mostly fast foods.Yeah even in old receipies there were fast foods.So i don't think i would give away mine old receipe book for new ones or online receipies.

I do both. I use certain sites online a lot, if I can't think what to cook one night but I have a certain ingredient I will put in that ingredient at a site and see what recipes come up. I very rarely follow a recipe exactly, I usually get a few ideas and then adapt them. I do still use cookbooks a lot though. I have several which I was given for my wedding and bridal shower (this must be a thing here in America, as pretty much every woman gave me a cookbook. Nice but scary!) and then I have a few relating to certain things, like the fact that I have diabetes. I will often go through the recipe books to plan meals and to adapt recipes to my diabetes, so I am prepared with some stuff I can eat. So, both. I would hate to see ANY sort of book disappear because of the internet. I'd hate to think of a world where my kids would never read books.

hi, GoGirl149,I do not often read cookbooks,now I often browse the information online,in my opinion, I think it is no need to buy a cookbook,because I can find a recipe in the internet.I can see anything that I want to see in the internet,and if I want to see some recipe from cookbook, first of all I have to buy it,so I must spend some money, it is unnecessary.

Oh my goodness. Yes, TasteHome Magazines, and pillsbury magazine or books at the grocery store and Martha Stewart sometimes. Rachel Ray books I think I have all of hers. She has wonderful receipes. I try to limit how many I buy boy do I have collection of them. Goof Housekeeping Magazine sometimes and Betty Crocker receipe books an crock pot receipes books. I think from writing this I have way too many (lol) but I am not willing to share yet (lol). Yes, sometimes I do online for receipes and I have like 4 binders of downloaded receipes. Thanks and have a great day Sincerely Unique16

I still use the ones I already have, more especially for certain recipes that I know will be in them, but I have not bought one in a few years. Any newer recipes that I am looking for I will look for online.

haha.. im a good cook! i think i dont need it anymore. even my mom says that i cook well. and besides, cookbooks are expensive. browse through some recipes in the internet instead or watch a cooking show on tv. we have a lot of them at home but nobody really uses it.

The only cookbook I open once in a while is "The joy of cooking". But I don´t use it to make a recipe, but rather to "talk" to the book. As I make my own recipes depending on what I have, I ask the Joy: Now, what do YOU put in this recipe. . When I needed cookbooks, there was no internet. If I had had it then, I probably would have used it over a book.

Yes, I still do. In fact, the last one I bought was for baking. I also have some Jamie Oliver books because the stuff he cooks is normally quite easy to make. I still buy them, but unfortunately I don't have much time to use them. Sometimes I do go online to check and compare recipes but I still buy books every now and then.

Hi GoGirl,I never buy a cook book as I ask some of my friends, my mother all recipes I want to cook, other wise I get all the new recipes from the Internet. But now-a-days you can learn some recipes from the television. So, I don't think you need to buy any cooking book, its simply waste of money and it takes lot of space to keep the books. Have a nice day.

hi there! i used to have some cook books on my selves but i already donated it to our local library, since i had internet in my apartment it gives me sign to gave those cook books, there's a vast amount of recipe online compare to just one or two book..

I buy cooking magazines, but not really cook books. I have some old ones that I love. I get most of my recipes online, or blogs.

I never buy a cookbook because sometimes I don't even know what're the ingredients. Yes, all the ingredients needed are written in the book but the problem is that I never heard or know the ingredients.