Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Update: As of this week you can now remove the preloaded recipes from the Demy by e-mailing the tech support people & just giving them the e-mail address (not the password) associated with your [...] account. It's an all or nothing process (i.e. you can't select which recipes you want removed) but at least you can get those old cookbooks off. I've also had some discussions with the support people and 'in the works' is going to be an option to search recipes by tags so you'll, hopefully, be able to tag recipes and then find all the 'chicken & garlic" ones without having to scroll thru everying. For now my work around has been to create multiple cookebooks & since you can have a recipe in more than one cookbook I've used those as 'drill down' tags. I've had the unit for over a month but didn't appreciate it's full value until today when they finally got the synchronization software working. The Demy is basically a touchscreen, full color, loose leaf cookbook with added functionality. The reason that I call it a loose leaf cookbook is that by setting up a free account at [...] you can type in all your recipes that you've collected from newspapers, magazines, the internet, etc. and have them downloaded to the device. If you're too lazy to type them in yourself, for a price, key ingredient's partner will scan them in for you so that you can download them to the unit. The 250 recipes that come preloaded on the unit cannot be removed but when you download your own recipes they show up alphabetized in their own file (cookbook) so that you can find them easily by either scrolling thru the list of recipes or typing in the first letter of the dish's name and having that part of the alphabet in the list show up. You can create as many cookbooks on the [...] website as you want and your recipes can show up in as many cookbooks as you'd like. For example I have one cookbook for internet recipes, one for newspaper recipes and one for holiday recipes. Some of the recipes I have will show up in both the internet & holiday 'cookbooks' making it easy to set up as many cookbooks as you want each containing only the menu you want for a particular event (this is only really useful for events, such as Thanksgiving, where you have the same recipe every time (like the stuffing). I wish you could create new cookbooks on the unit but right now that's not possible. You can create a 'favorite recipe' quick list on the Demy where you can list menu for a meal but can only make one of these at a time. Some of the other functionality include: 1) 3 separate cooking timers 2) A conversion function so that you can convert tbls. to cups, etc. 3) A substitution function so that if you're out of baking powder it will tell you how to substitute baking soda. All and all it's a fun unit but I'd only recommend it for people comfortable with installing software and working with websites for their databases.