How many recipe books do you own and how often do you use them?

[Aspiringcook]

If you want to share your fav ones, that would be nice too pls

Well over 109, but a lot are Kindle editions, ought on the 99p deal. I cook from a book maybe once a week (would love to do it more, but time is a factor). I mostly use Diana Henry, Nigella and Rukmini Iyer, but also consult and cook from Darina Allen quite a lot too.

I have about a dozen all told, and I don't really refer to them all that often. The ones I do use the most are:

Delia's Bible - I quite like some of her casseroles and her Christmas cake recipe.

Be-Ro Home Baking Centenary edition - my late DM sent for it for me when I first got married, and I've had it since the early 80's. It is literally falling to bits now. If someone said I had to pick just one cookery book to keep and get rid of all the rest, this is the one.

The Complete Farmhouse Kitchen Cook Book - more to get ideas from than to actually follow recipes, I think it accompanied a long-ago tv series.

Hairy Bikers One Pot - occasional forays into this one.

Most of the time for general day-to-day I just make things up as I go along, using whatever ingredients happen to be lying around.

I don't own any, and I cook every day/host Christmas and Easter etc. I either make it up or use the internet.

About 25. I do use them but there are loads of uncooked recipes in each.
Most used - 1001 cupcakes and cookies.
Jamie Olivers Ministry of Food, Nigella Express, Hairy Dieters books.
Used to have the Two Fat Ladies book - very funny but no recipes i saw myself eating.

Despite this I tend look look at BBC food for inspiration

Have banned myself from buying more recipe books.
I did however buy a recipe book today 😅.

Around 350. My favorite thing in the world Is to sit with a cup of tea and a recipe book. I’m time poor though so it doesn’t happen all that often.

Obviously now I’m going to have to start googling any books people mention as their favs that I don’t have so number now likely to go up!

42. I have one shelf and it's a one in one out basis.

I use Meera Sodhas East and Dinner 2-3 times a week each (great seasonal recipes that make the most out of what's in my allotment). Anna Jones, HFW's Veg Every day and Ottolenghi get the occasional look in.

My favourite recipes (including the ones found though Google) are all written in a hardback book after the best macaroni cheese recipe in the world vanished into the Internet blacklands.

Always interested in veggie recipes that use beetroot, cabbage, chard or potatoes to produce a full meal, if anyone has any recommendations!

About 50 or so and not really no

Glad to see Im not the only one who colour coordinates my book shelves. Rendering books impossible to find of course

I make dishes up as I go along and like eothers also talk in celeb voices from the distant past in my head.

But I like to know that I have the books there 'just in case'

I tend to read them like novels anyway, looking at the nice pictures

I order new recipe books quite a lot.

None. I make it up as I go along (occasionally googling for amounts / temperatures / times).

Wow some of you really have loads! I am genuinely curious to know, if you have so many books and never even look at them, why do you get them in the first place?