Every ingredient has a unit type: by weight, by volume, or counted (shown as Whole). Inside a recipe you can switch between units of the same type, such as pounds to ounces. To move an ingredient to a different type, for example from counting tortillas by the package to weighing them, use Update ingredient.
Update an ingredient
- Go to Ingredients.
- Tick the box on the ingredient's row. Select just one.
- Click Update ingredient in the bar at the bottom.
- In the Update Ingredient window:
- Change the Ingredient Name if you want to.
- Choose the new Unit Type and Unit.
- Under Recipes, check the quantity for each recipe that uses this ingredient. Re-enter quantities wherever the unit has changed.
- Click Update.
The Update Ingredient window
Example
Say your recipes measure rice in cups (2 cups in one recipe, 4 cups in another), but you'd rather buy and track it by the pound. In Update ingredient, change the Unit Type to weight and the Unit to pounds, then enter 1 pound and 2 pounds for the two recipes. Both recipes update at once, without opening either of them.
Other common uses: changing basil from bunches to ounces, or renaming an ingredient consistently across your whole recipe library.
The change applies to every recipe listed, so all your recipes stay consistent.
Tip: to fix only a typo in a name, you can also edit the name directly in the Item column and click Save changes.
