Creating a personal recipe: the dish you cook every week, logged in one tap
In short
A personal recipe takes three things: a name, a number of servings, a list of ingredients. Quantities go in grams or in kitchen units (tablespoon, teaspoon, cup, handful, serving) converted to an approximate weight. The recipe card then shows the total weight and the per-ingredient breakdown, and the recipe logs in one tap.
There's the dish you cook every week. Logging it ingredient by ingredient every time is exactly the kind of chore that makes people drop an app after ten days. It only needs saving once.
Three fields, that's all
From the recipes tab, “New recipe” opens a sheet with a name, a number of servings and an Add ingredient button. Each ingredient is picked from the app's database, or from your own foods.
Quantities: grams or kitchen units
For each ingredient you choose the unit: grams, tablespoon, teaspoon, cup, handful or serving. Kitchen units are converted to an approximate weight, shown as such (“≈ 15 g”): the app does not pass a conversion off as a weighing.
That's the thing to know if you want precision: a kitchen scale remains the most accurate way to enter a recipe. Kitchen units are there so that not owning one doesn't stop you from starting.
What the recipe card shows next
- The values per serving, obtained by dividing the total by the number of servings.
- The total weight of the recipe.
- The per-ingredient breakdown — useful to see where a dish's calories actually come from.
- A Duplicate button, to derive a variant without starting over.
Two guardrails run in the background. A recipe cannot contain itself: the loop is blocked with an explicit message. And if an ingredient's energy is unknown, the app does not fill the gap — it tells you, logs the recipe while flagging that the day's total is a minimum, and points at the ingredient to fix. Where the energy of the whole recipe is unknown, logging is refused rather than writing a wrong total.
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The recipes shipped with the app and the ones you create are not built the same way: the former are expressed per 100 g with a suggested, adjustable serving, while yours are entered as totals and then divided by your number of servings. The method used for the library recipes — mass balance, cooking yields, Atwater check — is detailed in How Radish calculates the macros of a homemade recipe.
Frequently asked questions
Are personal recipes a paid feature?
No. Creating recipes, logging them and finding them again is part of the free core, along with the diary, search, scanning and Nutri-Score.
Can I put one of my recipes inside another?
An ingredient can be another recipe, but a recipe cannot contain itself: the app blocks the loop.
What happens if an ingredient has no known calories?
The app flags it, logs the recipe while stating that the day's total is a minimum, and tells you which ingredient to fix. If the energy of the whole recipe is unknown, logging is refused.
Are spoons and cups accurate?
They are conversions to an approximate weight, displayed as such. For precision, a kitchen scale is still better.
Do my recipes go to a server?
No. They stay saved on your phone — never sent to our servers (except AI or barcode scanning, if you use them). Do export a backup if you change device.
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