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wow, really? seems expensive.

why not just buy a solid color binder (black, white, even lime green -- that's what i have) and put a cover and back and spine in it with a design on it. say, some pretty wrapping paper (rubber cemented to a piece of cardstock paper so you can actually slide it all the way into the binder).

That recipe stand looks perfect for all the computer printout recipes I have. Gotta order that!!

I do like the ones featured, but so far I just use black binders I bought and decorated myself. I love having plastic sheet protectors so I can slip recipes inside and anything in the kitchen that should dirty them, can wipe right off.

Love that Umbra thing! Mostly I've been using those poly presentation books that come with the sheet protectors already bound in. The spine can be customized with whatever recipes are in the binder: desserts, vegetables, etc.

i *just* started culling my recipes last night as part of my cure, and dug out an old black 3-ring binder and some photo archival 3-hole transparent holders. my recipes are not of uniform size, and a lot of them are handwritten on small pieces of paper on front and back, but i also have some standard printouts, so i'm hoping this will be a good and flexible system. i was also thinking i might index them somehow, but maybe just subdividing into categories like cookbooks/recipe boxes do is sufficient?

For Christmas one year, my mom gave my sister and I small binders of family recipes that we'd had growing up, stuff she thought would be useful for our adult lives (lasagna, meatballs, prize coffee cake, pizza crust, etc). She used a small binder meant for photos - specifically 3x5s or maybe 4x6s I think. It has little plastic pages that are envelopes and each fits a photo, card, or whatever. I can even buy personalized recipe cards that fit in the envelopes. It works great! It flips open and stays open. It may not work for cut-out recipes, but it could be a nice starting point for anyone inclined to organize this way.

Post-Its have some removable tabs that can be easily written on with permanent marker that could help further organize if you have a medium amount of recipes (for a large amount, I'm guessing that multiple binders would be needed, since the little one I have probably holds 50 sheets or so).

I like the Portochef, too. But for more options:

1. Some folks sell binders specifically for recipes; I've noted some of them here.

2. An Itoya Profolio could work well.

3. For just nice binders, see my list here.