Recipe management
Under a recipe management for cooking recipes refers to application software , with the recipes written, stored, can be accessed and adjusted.
Data exchange formats
Known exchange formats for cooking recipes are u. a .:
- MealMaster (MM)
- RezKonv (RK), German equivalent to MealMaster, specification not available on the WWW
- MasterCook
- RecipeML (formerly DESSERT ), XML -based
- CookML
- REML
- ChickenPing XML
- Eat Drink Feel Good Markup Language
- RxOL
- own formats from Big Oven, Living Cookbook, Now You're Cooking, Cookbook Wizard, From Scratch, From My Kitchen, Recipe Processor, Computer Chef, ...
Recipe management software generally uses a native data format and allows import and export in other recipe formats as well as output in HTML and PDF .
Range of functions
Individual programs for recipe management - for private households or also for the catering industry - partially enable menu , weekly or event planning, a categorization of recipes according to the type of dishes, the assignment of images, cross-references to other recipes, the creation of electronic cookbooks , the import / Export in various recipe formats and the printing of recipes or cookbooks. Some enable search functions related to individual recipe parts such as title, categories, ingredients, source, recorder and preparation text .
Other available functions are a glossary of common ingredients, a season overview, a nutritional value calculation using nutritional value tables , for example based on the federal food code, purchasing planning , managing frozen food and calculating the (cost) price . Occasionally, a stock or ingredient management allows the selection of dishes according to given ingredients.
The recipe database of the Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn allows the goods on the shopping list to be ordered directly via the delivery service of the Albert Heijn online supermarket .