Preparations
What Is It?
A Preparation is a sub-recipe you make ahead in batches — a sauce, a dough, a marinade, a stock — and then use inside several dishes. Instead of listing raw ingredients on every dish, you point dishes at the preparation.
How It Works (Simply)
- Define the preparation in Kitchen → Preparations: its name, unit, and the raw ingredients one batch consumes (its recipe), plus the yield per batch (how much one batch produces).
- Produce a batch when you make it. Foody deducts the raw ingredients from Stock and credits the produced quantity to the preparation.
- Use it in dishes: on a dish's Recipe tab, add the preparation as an ingredient with the quantity one portion needs.
Because dishes consume the preparation, its current quantity feeds straight into Availability: when a prep hits 0, dishes that use it go sold out — and the moment you produce a new batch, they come back.
Why use them
- Less duplication — change the sauce recipe once, every dish that uses it follows.
- Accurate food cost — the prep's cost per unit rolls up from its ingredients and flows into each dish.
- Real availability — "we're out of the green sauce" automatically 86's the right dishes.
Example
A tahini sauce yields 2 L per batch and costs ₪18 to make. Five dishes use 50 ml each. After producing one batch you can build ~40 portions; when it drops near zero those dishes show low stock, then sold out — until you produce another batch.