The TOOLS Hub
From Home, tap TOOLS to open the hub for professional workflows. You will see four tiles:
- Test Kitchen - All recipes marked in development (Test Kitchen in the editor). Same list you use when iterating on dishes before they are finalized.
- Menus - Build menus for an event or service: add dishes, set covers (portions) per item, and open a consolidated shopping list.
- Shopping Lists - Jump to aggregated lists for every menu you have created (the same data as the Shopping list inside each menu).
- Cookbook - Recipes you mark with Include in Cookbook in the editor. Use this curated set with Export Cookbook in Settings > Backup.
Footnote on the hub explains that menus use live recipe data, shopping totals respect covers versus each recipe's base servings, and lists stay in sync when you edit a recipe.
Menus
In Menus, tap + to create a menu. In the editor you can set the name, description, optional event date, and notes.
On the menu detail screen:
- Dishes - Add recipes from your library. Each line can carry a course order and covers so the app knows how many portions to plan for.
- Shopping list - Opens the aggregated list. Ingredients from all dishes are combined and scaled using covers and each recipe's serving count.
- Toolbar menu (⋯) - Edit menu info, Export menu as PDF, Export menu as text, or Remove menu.
Menu Shopping List Exports
From a menu's shopping list screen, use the share control to export:
- Plain text
- CSV
Component Recipes in Shopping Lists
When a dish uses linked component recipes, the aggregated shopping list expands each component into its own ingredients rather than listing the component by name. Expanded lines are labelled with their source, for example "Parsley - 1 bunch (for Chimichurri)", so you can see where each item comes from. Amounts are scaled by covers and combined with everything else. The same expansion applies when you export a single recipe's shopping list.
Shopping Lists (Hub)
Shopping Lists lists your menus so you can open any menu's aggregated list quickly without drilling into Menus first.
Cookbook & Backup
Toggle Include in Cookbook in the Recipe Editor for recipes that belong in a curated export bundle. In Settings > Backup > Export, use Export Cookbook to share only those recipes as JSON. Full-library backup is still under Save Backup File. See Sharing, Export & Backup for restore limits and file naming.