how to add recipe

dricha21

When using the cronometer I want to add a chaffle recipe so I don't have to add individual ingredients to my food chart everytime. How do I add recipe to do that?

Karen_Cronometer

Hi there,

Custom recipes are a great way to make Cronometer work better for you!

Learn how to create a custom recipe here: https://cronometer.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018510311

With a Gold subscription, you can also create a recipe from foods already entered in your diary. Hold the shift key and click each food you would like to include in your recipe. Right click on them and select "Create recipe from selected items".

Once you have saved your recipe you will be able to search for the recipe's name in the search dialogue on both your web and mobile versions of Cronometer.

You can create a recipe on your mobile app too. Learn about that here: https://cronometer.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019870111

Cheers!

jerbir

The problem with linking us to the user manual is that the directions do not clarify that IF you are creating a servings-based recipe, should the ingredients list display the TOTAL weight of the ingredient, and then the computer calculates the serving size in the nutrition facts table? Common sense says "yes the recipe ingredient list should display the total weight of all ingredients" Cronometer should make this one clarification in the User Manual and it would stop all the questions.

jerbir

Confirmed when adding a recipe that you add the total all ingredients then select serving. Not actually that intuitive and Cronometer's User Manual could fix this understanding, if Cronometer wanted to. It would certainly diminish the number of questions on this topic.

MoroMojo

The only custom feature I use is Custom Food.
When I have a complicated recipe I first convert it to grams. Water used for dissolving, blending, boiling requires planning. Ideally you want to weigh the water in the finished product or else eliminate it from the final calculation because it has no calories.
Second, I input the grams for all the ingredients into a spreadsheet. I enter the fat, protein, and carbs for each item in columns. This gives me a very precise recipe I can use with my grams scale to make sure my recipes are accurate and consistent.
Third, I add up the columns for fat, protein and carbs. That total for the whole recipe makes it easy to compute the portions. If you have soup or stew, it doesn't matter how much water is in there as long as you know the total weight for the whole pot (less the weight of the pot.)
Fourth, you weigh (or divide) a standard portion size in grams and enter that into Cronometer as a custom food. You enter the proportionate amount of each nutrient for that portion as well. I use a formula in my spreadsheet to make it simple. (If you can't do this, use the calculator on your phone).
Now, nutrients in a ladle full of stew are easily measurable if you know the weight of a whole pot. I compute the calories for a whole pizza and divide by the number of slices to get a portion size.
In Cronometer I name the food with the portion size in the name. I also enter the Fat/protein/carb amounts (plus any other nutrients I care about) into Cronometer as a Custom Food for that portion size only. That way, I easily get a nutrient count in Cronometer. You can make the recipe in any size. As long as you know the weight of the final food on the plate, the calorie count will be reasonably accurate in Cronometer.
Entering it the first time is a huge PITA, though, especially for those "two medium tomatoes" and "add to taste" items. The scale is your only friend. "Convert to grams" is the mantra to chant while you weigh it.
I do this because I have been caught a number of times when I thought I was under 20g carb for a day only to compute it and it added up to 41. Those little things add up.
BTW, there are a lot of bugs in Cronometer. One I just noticed was that the spell check in the Cronometer app comment editor doesn't know how to spell "Cronometer".