There are times when you have shrinkage or waste - a raw ingredient starts off with one weight or volume, but by the time it is useable, that weight/volume has changed because you have had to trim away various less desirable parts. Think of tomatoes that get cored and trimmed or a cut of meat that needs the fat trimmed.
Through your recipes in MarginEdge, you have to options to account for this loss of yield when preparing food items. This article will explain both ways and equip you to choose the option that is best for you!
Step by Step Instructions for Two Options
Option #1 - adjust the yield on the recipe ingredient
Option #2 - create a new prepared item recipe to account for the adjusted yield
#1 - Adjust the yield on the recipe ingredient
Anytime you are creating a recipe, you have the option to adjust the yield on any given ingredient. In this example, we will create a mirepoix recipe with different percentage yields for each ingredient that requires prep: onion at 85%, carrots at 80%, celery at 75%.
When the yield is lowered, the cost of the ingredient within the recipe increases. The more accurately you can account for any shrinkage or waste, the more accurate your recipe cost will be!
#2 - Create a prepared item recipe that accounts for the yield
If you use prepped onions in multiple recipes, you may want to create a new recipe to allow you to account for the loss in one central place. For an onion with an 85% yield, you would create a new recipe for “chopped onions". This would have one single ingredient of onions, with the ingredient yield showing 85%.
The advantage of this option is that by creating a separate recipe to account for the loss, you can use this recipe rather than the raw ingredient in other recipes and the yield will already be accounted for.
Below you can see it used within the original Mirepoix recipe - we simply add the ingredient of "chopped onions" and leave the yield at 100%. Since you already accounted for the loss in the prep recipe, don't change it here. We don't want you double counting that loss!