Recipe for is the compound stock item in whose recipe the ingredient is included.

Stock item is the ingredient stock item (recipe item in the compound stock item recipe).

Unit (stock item) is the unit of measurement of the ingredient stock item.

Gross is the quantity of the ingredient before cold preparation and cooking.

Cold preparation wastage % is the percentage of the ingredient stock item lost during cold preparation.

Net is the resulting quantity of the ingredient after cold preparation.

Cooking wastage % is the percentage of the ingredient stock item lost during cooking.

Yield is the quantity of the ingredient stock item after cooking wastage.

Index defines the order in which the ingredient is added when producing the compound stock item.

Comment is a short text comment.

Type is the stock item type of the ingredient stock item.

Category is the stock item category of the ingredient stock item.

Order of weights is the order in which weights are displayed in the Dish weights window field of the Recipe item to which the Yield value will be added.

The weight of the resulting compound stock item is displayed as a group of figures separated by slashes, e.g. 200/150/50. These figures might correspond to the weights of a main course, side dish and sauce. The value in the field determines which figure denotes the quantity of the stock item. If no value is specified in the field, the quantity of the stock item will not be displayed at all in the compound stock item weight description.

Class is the name of the class to which the ingredient belongs.

System is a tag identifying system objects.

Edit (F2) – opens the editor window to allow one or more recipe items to be edited.

Print (Ctrl+P) – generates print layouts.

Summary functions – menu with the commands to manage the summary functions of the data grid.

Additional functions – menu with the commands to operate the data grid.