Building a Recipe
Create a recipe, link your raw materials, and let Batchbase calculate costs and nutrition automatically.
Creating a New Recipe
Go to Production → Recipes and click New Recipe. Give your recipe a name, select the product category, and set the batch yield (e.g. 10 kg or 100 units).
The batch yield is used as the base for all cost and nutrition calculations. You can change it at any time without losing your ingredient proportions.
Adding Ingredients
Click Add Ingredient and search for a raw material from your library. Enter the ingoing weight for the batch. Repeat for each ingredient.
If a raw material doesn't exist yet, you can create it on the fly from within the recipe builder — you'll be prompted to add the details and it will be saved to your library automatically.
Yield and Cooking Loss
Most cooked or baked products lose weight during processing. Enter a yield percentage on the recipe to account for moisture loss. For example, a yield of 85% means the finished product weighs 85% of the total ingoing ingredients.
Yield affects the per-100g nutrition calculations on your spec sheet, so it's important to set this accurately based on your production data.
Recipe Costs
If your raw materials have purchase prices set, Batchbase calculates the ingredient cost per batch and per unit automatically. Costs update in real time as you adjust quantities or ingredient prices.
The recipe cost view also shows a cost breakdown by ingredient, so you can identify which materials are driving your cost of goods.