You buy in one unit and cook in another. This page is how NexReps gets from one to the other without a calculator and without a guess.
The rule
Stock is kept in the unit your recipes use. Grams for oregano, pieces for eggs, millilitres for cream. That is the product's Kept in unit.
What you buy belongs to the invoice line. A case, a bag, a flat. It is converted when the goods arrive, through the reception format: a case of 12 × 450 g of pasta adds 5 400 g to stock.
So recipes never convert, and neither does the count. Both are already in the unit of use.
What NexReps already knows
The standard maths inside one dimension: grams and kilos, millilitres and litres, pounds and ounces, pieces and dozens. Buy by the pound, keep in grams — nothing to do.
Crossing dimensions
Buy by the litre, cook in grams. Buy by the piece, cook in grams. There is no universal answer: a litre of cream and a litre of honey do not weigh the same, and neither do two tomatoes.
For these, NexReps needs a number that belongs to the product: 1 EA = 135 g for a hot house tomato, 1 L = 1 010 g for cream.
Many common unit weights come ready, from Health Canada's Canadian Nutrient File. The rest you set once, on the product's Recipe Units.
A tomato bought by the pound and kept by the piece works too: NexReps goes from pounds to grams, then from grams to pieces through that weight.
Add Recipe Unit
Recipe unit — what you want to use in recipes.
1 [unit] = ? [recipe unit] — how many of them fit in one.
The unit now appears in recipe dropdowns for this product, and NexReps can cost anything measured in it.
Read the direction carefully
The field asks how many recipe units are in one of the other unit. How many grams does one litre of this weigh? For cream, roughly 1 010. For oil, closer to 920. Weigh it if you are not sure.
Get it backwards and every recipe using the product is wrong by a factor of a thousand. Check one recipe after adding a conversion. If the cost is off by a suspicious round number, the conversion is inverted.
It belongs to the product
A conversion is set on the canonical product, so it serves every supplier and every venue at once. The weight of a lemon is the weight of a lemon.
A container is never a unit
BAG, BOX, CASE, CLAM, FLAT say how something is packed, not how much there is. A product is never kept in one, and a pack is never written in one. Write what is inside.
When a line will not convert
On an invoice, a pack that cannot reach the product's unit turns the line red. In a recipe, a line that cannot be converted makes the recipe Incomplete. Either way the fix is the same: the number only you have.
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Trim loss — the difference between what you buy and what reaches the plate.