Master Chef has a standard but simple interface, which does not require any complex interaction with the user and days to learn how to use it. Master Chef is easy to use, yet powerful and extensible. Master Chef offers a flexible end-user experience by allowing you to customize it in any way you want it to be. Note: Master Chef is not compatible with Windows Vista.
Ever wanted to learn more recipes and impress your friends at parties, barbecues or other culinary events? Now you have the opportunity! With the help of the Learning Edition you will achieve this. This edition includes a number of different tests which will help you learn and memorize more and more recipes over a period of time. Anyone can use the Learning Edition, although the persons who will greatly benefit are those in the food and beverage industry. Students at bartending or culinary schools, or members of cooking clubs will definitely find this module very useful.
The Master Chef Process
- 1. Filling Your Cabinet
A powerful feature of Master Chef is the Cabinet. A cabinet (aka Pantry) is the place where you store your ingredients. Although physically you can have more than one place where you hold your ingredients, Master Chef merges all these locations and keeps them all in just one single, generic place, called the Cabinet. - 2. Knowing Your Suppliers
Suppliers are the liquor shops, super-markets or groceries from where you purchase your ingredients. A supplier is a provider of any ingredient required for making the final recipe.
Each supplier can have any ingredient, and an ingredient can be supplied by more than one supplier. You also have the facility to enter the actual costs of the ingredient, so you would know at a glance who sells the cheapest or the best ingredients. - 3. Defining Your Shopping Lists
Although you have your ingredients set up successfully in your cabinet, you would also want to purchase new ingredients or replace ingredients that have been used up. The Shopping List lets you do all this. - 4. Creating Your Recipes
Each individual recipe has a number of different properties that you can set up. Entering the details couldn't have been easier. Recipes can have multiple categories, and you can use different glasses from which you can drink a particular recipe.
Master Chef includes more details that are related just for meals. You select the cuisine, default meal type and course, as well as enter details recipe procedures, cooking techniques and equipment. - 5. Inventing Your Menus
A menu is a list of recipes showing the ingredients and selling price of each and every recipe. You create your own menus depending on the party you're giving, the occasion or the season.
Master Chef includes an intelligent Wine Pairing Wizard that finds the most suitable wine that matches the recipes you have - 6. Organizing Your Meal Plans
Create daily meal plans that you can recur in any way imaginable. Zoom out to a particular week or to a whole month, giving you an overview of which days and busy and which not.
Calculate the nutritional analysis of each individual meal plan item, for a whole course or for the complete meal plan. Once you're done, create a shopping list from the meal plan and you can go shopping! - 7. Publishing Your Cookbooks
Once your recipes and meal plans are in place, the final stage is to create and publish cookbooks. Create a chapter hieararchy the way you want it, and then drag-and-drop recipes and meal plans to each chapter.
Select one of the standard templates or any other that you have created, and at the click of a button, the whole cookbook will be published into Microsoft Word where you can add the finishing touches before printing the cookbook.
Features
The Learning Edition comes with 6 different and unique tests:
Missing Ingredient
A choice of recipes will be selected. For each recipe, its ingredients (except one) will be listed. The recipe picture will also be shown, if one is available. Then a list of 5 choices of ingredients will also be listed. The other remaing recipe ingredient will be listed amongst this list. Your task is to select the correct ingredient from the list.
Name the Recipe
A choice of recipes will be selected. For each recipe, all of its ingredients will be listed. This time the picture of the recipe (if available) will not be shown. You will then have a list of 5 choices of possible recipes. Your task is to select the correct recipe from the list.
Spot the Recipe
A choice of recipes will be selected. For each recipe, the picture will be show. This time, no ingredients will be listed. You will then have a list of 5 choices of possible recipes. Your task is to select the correct recipe from the list.
Guess the Cuisine
A choice of recipes will be selected. For each recipe, different cuisines will be listed. This time, the ingredients will be listed, but the recipe picture will not be displayed. You will then have a list of 5 choices of possible cuisines. Your task is to select the correct cuisine from the list.
Guess the Course
A choice of recipes will be selected. For each recipe, different courses will be listed. This time, the ingredients will be listed, but the recipe picture will not be displayed. You will then have a list of 5 choices of possible courses. Your task is to select the correct courses from the list.
Guess the Glass
A choice of recipes will be selected. For each recipe, different glasses will be listed. This time, the ingredients will be listed, but the recipe picture will not be displayed. You will then have a list of 5 choices of possible glasses. Your task is to select the correct glass from the list.
