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Overview

The Pantry is where you manage all your ingredients. It tracks what you have, what it costs, and connects everything to your recipes so you can plan baking days with confidence.

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What The Pantry Is

The Pantry is your ingredient library. Every ingredient you use in your baking lives here with its unit of measurement and cost. When you build recipes for your products, you pull ingredients from The Pantry. Think of it as your digital version of scanning your shelves before a baking day — except it is always up to date.

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Pre-Seeded Ingredients

When you create your Knead account, The Pantry comes with six common baking staples already added:
  • Flour
  • Sugar
  • Salt
  • Butter
  • Eggs
  • Milk
These are ready to use in your first recipe. You can edit their costs and quantities to match your actual stock.
Good to know: Pre-seeded ingredients are created specifically for your business. Editing them does not affect any other baker’s Pantry.

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Adding New Ingredients

There are two ways to add ingredients to The Pantry.

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From The Pantry Directly

  1. Tap The Pantry in your main navigation.
  2. Tap Add Ingredient.
  3. Enter the ingredient name.
  4. Choose the unit of measurement (for example, lbs, oz, cups, each).
  5. Enter the cost per unit.
  6. Optionally, enter the quantity you have on hand.
  7. Save.

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On-the-Fly During Recipe Creation

When you are building a recipe inside a product, you can create new ingredients without leaving the recipe form.
  1. Start typing an ingredient name in the recipe ingredient field.
  2. If the ingredient exists in The Pantry, it appears in the type-ahead dropdown. Tap to select it.
  3. If the ingredient does not exist, tap Create New from the dropdown.
  4. Fill in the unit and cost for the new ingredient.
  5. The ingredient is saved to The Pantry and added to your recipe in one step.
This means you never have to stop building a recipe to go add an ingredient separately.
Pro tip: Add cost information when you create an ingredient, even if you are estimating. This lets Knead calculate your recipe costs and helps you price products accurately.

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Linking Ingredients to Recipes

Ingredients in The Pantry connect to your product recipes. When you add an ingredient to a recipe, you specify how much of it the recipe uses. For example, your chocolate chip cookie recipe might use:
  • 2.25 cups flour
  • 1 cup butter
  • 0.75 cups sugar
Knead uses these amounts to calculate recipe costs and to help you understand how much of each ingredient you need for a baking day.

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Tracking Quantities on Hand

The Pantry lets you track how much of each ingredient you currently have.
  1. Open an ingredient from The Pantry.
  2. Update the Quantity on Hand field.
  3. Save.
Before a baking day, compare what The Pass requires against what The Pantry shows you have. This helps you create a shopping list and avoid mid-bake surprises.

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Keeping Costs Up to Date

Ingredient costs change. When you restock at a different price, update the cost in The Pantry.
  1. Open the ingredient.
  2. Update the Cost per Unit field.
  3. Save.
Updated costs flow into your recipe cost calculations automatically. This keeps your product pricing grounded in real numbers.
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