Ingredient units and usable yield

Overview

• Ingredient Base unit is the common unit MiniTill uses when comparing purchase options and Recipe usage.
• A purchase option has a Usable quantity and Usable unit describing how much of one purchased pack is actually available for recipes.
• MiniTill converts compatible units such as kg↔g, L↔mL, and dozen↔each before calculating unit cost.
• Usable yield further adjusts the effective quantity. For example, a 1 kg pack at 80% yield provides 800 g of effective usable ingredient for costing.
• If a supplier price includes GST, MiniTill excludes GST before calculating the ingredient cost used by the Recipe.

When to use this

• Use yield when trimming, peeling, cooking loss, drained weight, or other unavoidable loss means the purchased quantity is not the same as the usable recipe quantity.

Step-by-step

1. Choose the Ingredient base unit.
2. Set a realistic usable yield percentage between 0 and 100%.
3. For each purchase option, enter the usable amount from one purchased pack.
4. Make sure the purchase option unit is compatible with the Ingredient base unit.
5. Review the resulting Recipe/Product cost after changing yield or pack size.

Common mistakes

• Do not enter pack gross weight as usable quantity when a meaningful portion is discarded.
• Do not apply the same loss twice by reducing both Usable quantity and Yield for the same waste unless that is intentional.
• Do not connect volume units to a weight-based Ingredient unless there is an explicit supported conversion; MiniTill will not guess density.

Troubleshooting

• If a cost shows Incompatible unit, fix the Ingredient/purchase/Recipe unit family instead of forcing a price.
• If a cost looks unexpectedly high, check whether usable quantity or yield is too low.