Adjusting Portion Size of Recipe and Automatically Calculating New Ingredient Amounts ("My Recipe" Only)
When required to adjust the portion size of a "My Recipe" recipe (i.e., a recipe owned by your account), the ingredient amounts will need to be scaled accordingly. Rather than doing the math for each ingredient to meet the new portion size and then having to open each ingredient to update its amount, you can use the yield tool to automatically calculate the new ingredient amounts based on the desired portion size.
Depending if the recipe has edible portion ingredients or not, the method is a little different. Refer to the appropriate set of instructions below:
Recipe without an Edible Portion Ingredient
Assume the recipe is without an edible portion (EP) ingredient. The existing portion size of the recipe is 1 cup and needs to be adjusted to 1.5 cups.
- Your first step is to obtain the desired estimated serving size, which in the stew recipe example below will be 15 oz to equal 1.5 cups portion size. You do this by entering a lower serving number. In the example screenshots below, lowering the serving number from 50 to 32 increases the estimated serving size to 15.01 oz.
- With the desired estimated serving size achieved, your next steps are to use the scale function to automatically adjust the ingredient amounts. Click the adjust icon beside Yield and the Yield Adjustment window appears (second screenshot below).
- In the Scale To field, enter the original serving number of the recipe (which in this example is 50), and then click Calculate. The window refreshes with the new ingredient amounts.
- Click the Update Recipe Yield button to apply the new ingredient amounts to the recipe.
- Update the Portion Size with the new amount. If there is a Portion Size description (Portion Size Description field), update it accordingly. Also, you have the option to enter the portion size in the Display Name.
- Click the Save button to apply your changes.
Note: The recipe cost will be affected accordingly when the estimated serving size is adjusted.
Recipe with an Edible Portion Ingredient
Assume the recipe contains an ingredient with an edible portion (EP) ingredient. The edible portion amount is 59.53 g (2.1 oz) and needs to be adjusted to 85 g (3 oz).
- Your first step is to obtain the desired edible portion amount of the ingredient, which in this example will be 85 g (3 oz). You do this by entering a lower serving number. In the example screenshots below, lowering the serving number from 50 to 35 increases the edible portion amount of the ingredient to 85.05 g.
- With the desired edible portion amount achieved, your next steps are to use the scale function to automatically adjust the ingredient amounts. Click the adjust icon beside Yield and the Yield Adjustment window appears (second screenshot below).
- In the Scale To field, enter the original serving number of the recipe (which in this example is 50), and then click Calculate. The window refreshes with the new ingredient amounts.
- Click the Update Recipe Yield button to apply the new ingredient amounts to the recipe.
Note: For ingredients that do not need to be scaled, such as hamburger buns, manually adjust the amount to the original.
- Update the Portion Size with the new amount. If there is a Portion Size description (Portion Size Description field), update it accordingly. Also, you have the option to enter the portion size in the Display Name.
- Click the Save button to apply your changes.
Note: The recipe cost will be affected accordingly when the estimated serving size is adjusted.