Sub-Recipes
Use recipes as ingredients inside other recipes — costs and nutrition flow through automatically.
A lot of what you make goes into something else. Your pizza dough is an ingredient in your pizza. Your BBQ sauce goes into six different dishes. Your ganache is a component of three desserts.
In Recipe Cost Calculator, any recipe can be used as an ingredient in another recipe. The cost, nutrition data, and allergen information from the sub-recipe all flow through to the parent automatically. Change the sub-recipe and every parent that uses it updates.
This is really useful for operations that do a lot of batch prep. You cost your sauces, dressings, doughs, and bases as their own recipes, then use them as building blocks. The parent recipe shows the true cost including every component — no manual adding things up.
Sub-recipes can go multiple levels deep if needed. A base recipe can be part of a sub-recipe that's part of a final product. The cost chain stays intact all the way through.
Why this matters
Build recipes from recipes.
When your components are properly costed as sub-recipes, you always know the true cost of the final product — and when a component price changes, every dish that uses it updates automatically. No more manually recalculating cascading cost changes.