Help: Recipes

Unlike normal to-do lists, recipes have an intuitive notation that should be noted in order to take full advantage of the Recipe function's full potential. In particular, there is a free scaling factor for the recipe, which ensures that in the recipe text, for example, at factor 2 a "1 egg" will become "2 eggs".

Structure of a recipe

In the screen view of a finished recipe you can see 4 areas:

Number of Servings
Ingredients
Work Materials
Step by step Guide

The Number of Servings is entered in two fields in the configuration mask of the recipe: a numerical number and its optional label.

For a cake it can be e.g. "12 pieces". In this case you enter "12" as number and "pieces" in the second input field. When using a scaling factor, the number is then automatically multiplied by the factor, so at factor 2 it will be 24 pieces, at factor 0.5 it will be 6 pieces.

If the label field is left blank, "servings" will automatically be used.

The Ingredients and Work Materials are automatically determined from Step by Step Guide.

Notation of the Step by step Guide

The individual steps are entered like the tasks in a to-do list. There are two exceptions:

Ingredients

The ingredients are indicated in square brackets, such as [200 g butter] or [1 cup warm milk].

Specifically, the notation is [Quantity Unit Ingredient], so the amount is entered before the first space, the unit before the second space, then (with any number of spaces) comes the label of the ingredient. The amount, if it is a number, is automatically multiplied by the factor in the recipe by to-do-go.

Special Case 1: there is no unit. In this case, there is only one space and the area after the space is automatically the label. Like "[2 eggs]"

Special Case 2: the unit contains spaces, such as "2 small cups milk". In this case, the ingredient is "milk" and the unit is "small cups". In this case, the space in the unit can be replaced by an underscore, that is [2 small_cups milk]. In the screen view, the underscore is converted back to a space. In contrast, with [1 cup warm milk] the ingredient is "warm milk" and the unit is "cup".

Work Materials

By this is meant all auxiliary items needed for the preparation of the recipe but which are not consumed by it. For example, bakeware, mixers, whisk etc. These items are indicated in curly braces, as seen in this example:
"grease the {baking tin} with the {brush} and [a_little butter]".

Singular and Plural

Multiplication by the free factor can lead to unsightly textual formulations. If a recipe uses "1 egg", it turns into factor 2: "2 egg". The other way around is "2 eggs" at a factor of 0.5: "1 eggs".

To solve this dilemma, to-do-go provides the ability to specify many descriptions both singular and plural at the same time by specifying both textual versions separated with a slash. in the example of the eggs, use [1 egg/eggs] or [2 egg/eggs] in the instructions. After to-do-go has determined the scaled quantity, the singular is automatically used if the quantity is exactly 1, otherwise the plural

The singular / plural indication is optionally possible in the following character strings:

in the unit of an ingredient
in the label of an ingredient
in the label of the work material
in the labeling of the portions

There is a special case in the labeling of the work material: since there is no quantity here, the plural only applies if the portion factor is greater than 1. Here's the example:
"grease the {baking pan/baking pans} with the {brush}". If you want to bake a cake, which is intended for a baking pan, you need a several baking pans at a factor of greater than 1. But for greasing you need only a brush that can be used in common.

Publishing and Legal Notes

to-do-go thrives by the community, in the case of recipes this means that every recipe available in the community area has been published by another user and not just made accessible to oneself but also to others. If you want to join this community and contribute your recipes, you can propose them for publication.

If you click on "Suggest for Publishing" in a recipe, we will review your recipe suggestion over the next few days to make sure that it's actually a recipe, not a nonsense post or even illegal content. If we do not notice anything here, we will soon make your recipe publicly available. We reserve the right to make minor corrective changes, such as adding singular / plural where it should be missing, correcting typing mistakes or rephrase hard-to-understand phrases.

In this context, you must grant us a revocable publishing right for to-do-go.com, otherwise we may not make the recipe publicly available. In the recipe you are called as author and responsible for the content. Please also note that you may grant the publishing right only if you own the copyright to the recipe. This is especially not the case if you adopt a recipe from another location (such as a website, magazine or cookbook) and you publish it at to-do go without making any significant content changes to it. Own recipe creations or recipes with significant content changes, on the other hand, are not critical. You may have already made significant content changes by converting a textual recipe into the to-do-go notation for recipes, but that's legal risk ultimately for you.

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