Allrecipes claims you can "Search over 20,000 recipes from home cooks" and the site certainly has a huge range of recipes and ideas. Initially the main categories are: Dish type, Ingredients, Method, Cuisines, Diet & Lifestyle, Popular collections, and Occasions.
The recipes are brought together in a wide range of collections and sub-collections ideal for browsing and refining what you're looking for, or for getting ideas. The main ingredients collection is based on:
- Meat and poultry
- Seafood
- Pasta
- Pulse and beans
- Grain
- Vegetable
- Fruit
- Chocolate
- Egg
- Dairy
- Nut and seed
- Herb and spice
These then go into further sub-categories. For example the "Pulse and beans" category leads to Lentils, Chickpeas, Butter beans, Black beans, Borlotti beans, Black eyed beans, Baked beans, Broad beans and Soya beans, and then the pages of recipes.
The search facility is quite basic with no filtering, but with the extensive use of categories it doesn't negatively impact finding recipes and ideas.