After recently reviewing the website, Open Source Food and writing about Food Blog Websites, this week Kristopher Lederer the Chief Group Recipes Nerd asked me to review his social food website, Group Recipes.

Group Recipes has been live for just under a year now and was reviewed by the Washington Post late last year. Group Recipes is still in Beta it has some very polished Web 2.0 features that shine in this recipe community offering enormous viral growth for the site.

Signup to the site is easy, and you’ll find that it’s really easy to post your first recipe. However the recipe submission form does require a great deal of information compared to other simple community recipe websites. Then you’ll have to take the taste test and indicate what you like and don’t like. Items are offered and you simply slide a scale whether you like them or not. Once this is submitted the Group Recipe Robot (aka Food Prediction Algorithm) tells you if you will like or not like recipes as you view them.

I guess inspired by the popular website StumbleUpon, Group Recipes features Recipe Stumbler. Recipe Stumbler randomly chooses a recipe from your profile which both suits your likes and dislikes. Other great viral / social additions include Related Recipes which connects you to other users’ recipes as well as the ability to Print the Recipe, Email it, Forward to Friend, Send Recipe to a Cell Phone or Add a Personal Note to someone else’s recipe.

Lastly, probably the best feature of Group Recipes is Group Recipes TV which allows people to upload videos of them cooking recipes to the site. There are some interesting videos already on the site, but on a whole tend to be American flavours.

One of my suggestions to Kristopher was to include Australian Cuisine in the cuisine list which would allow us to include much more Australian Recipes on Group Recipes. Other than that Kristopher, well done!

Check out my profile (chefben) on Group Recipes