Recipe Details: Components

Components are the ingredients used to make a recipe. They are selected on the Components tab of the Recipe Details screen.

Under the Products menu, select Recipe.
To edit a recipe record, click on the Recipe Name hyperlink.

All tabs are visible by default. To show/hide a tab, click on the Menu icon and select the Tabs option. From the pop-up menu, check to show or uncheck to hide the desired tab(s).

Click on the Components tab. {Concepts Note}: If a product is linked to one or more Concepts, it will only be available in this screen if it is linked to one or more of the same Concepts as the recipe and the current application user. If a product is not linked to any Concepts, it will be visible for all recipes and users. See "Concepts" for more information.

To add recipe components, click the Plus (Add) icon. This will display the Recipe Components section in the lower part of the screen.

Click on the appropriate product or press [CTRL] and click on multiple products.
Click the Add [^] button to link the selected locations or click the Add All (double-arrow) button to add them all to the vendor. If necessary, select one or more locations and click the Delete (Trash Can) button at the upper right of the screen to remove them.
When finished, click the Close (X) button in the Recipe Components section to close it.

For each component, define the following: {Note}: You can click a Component Name hyperlink to open the Company Product details screen for the product. This can be done to edit its Recipe Units, if necessary. If the component is a sub-recipe, you can also click the Product Number hyperlink to view the details of that recipe.

Sequence – If the components need to be listed in a specific order, click and drag the component rows to rearrange the order.
Quantity – Enter the amount of each component to use; this should be enough to make 1 Batch. A negative quantity can be entered to represent a component item that is not to be included in a recipe or one for which a substitute component will be used. For example, a recipe product can be created and used specifically to "hold the onions" or to substitute cheddar cheese for mozzarella. (If the quantity is modified on the Modeling tab, the quantity entered here will be updated automatically to account for that.)
Recipe Unit – Select the unit being used to measure this component in this recipe. These options are based on the Recipe Units set up in the Company Product record for the selected component item.
Major Ingredient – This box is checked by default to indicate that the ingredient that is regularly counted during physical inventory events and should be depleted when producing or selling this recipe. An example of a non-major ingredient would be tap water – it should not be a major ingredient because it is not purchased or inventoried (and therefore should not be depleted from inventory) but it needs to be a component of the recipe for preparation purposes.
Pre-Production – For Prep recipes, check this box for any recipe component that requires preparation before the recipe can be made. These components will appear on the Pre-Production report available in the Daily Prep screen in Net-Chef.
Special Instructions – If necessary, select one or two instructions for a component to indicate the prep tasks required. These instructions will appear in Net-Chef on the Recipe Card report, and on the Scale Recipes report available from the Production menu and the Daily Prep screen. If one or both instructions have a time factor defined, this component may also appear in the 7-Day Pre-Production Summary report.

Click the Disk (Save) icon to save your changes.
To download and print these settings, click the Printer (Export) icon and select the desired options.
If necessary, click on any other tab as needed to configure settings on that tab. If not, skip to the next step.
When finished, click the X (Close) icon to return to the summary screen.

Note: The components, quantities and recipe packages entered here will determine what is subtracted from inventory when this recipe is produced or sold. See "Determining Product Depletion and Recipe Costing" for more information.