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Documentation Index

Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.kneadapp.co/llms.txt

Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

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Overview

When an order doubles, not everything doubles with it. A rest takes the same time whether you make one loaf or ten, mixing time grows with quantity, and your oven only holds so much at once. Knead lets you describe these realities per step so it can answer the real question: “Can I take this order?” There are two scaling experiences — one for ingredients, one for production time.

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Ingredient scaling

On the recipe page, use Scale: with the buttons 0.5x, 1x, 2x, and 3x. This shows the resulting yield (e.g. ”= 24 cookies”) and updates ingredient quantities and costs together. It’s purely for adjusting the recipe math. The Scale buttons and production-time preview on a recipe page

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Production-time scaling: “What if they order…”

Below your steps is a dark card titled What if they order…. Use the quantity stepper or the multiplier chips 1×, 2×, 3×, 5× to preview how each step’s time grows, with a multiplier badge on the affected steps. This is where your per-step scaling behavior pays off.

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Per-step scaling behavior

Each step has a When you make more radio group with three options:
  • Same no matter how many — fixed time. A rest that’s identical for 1 or 100.
  • Grows with quantity — linear. Time scales directly with the multiplier.
  • In batches of… — stepped. Reveals a Batch size input (“yield per run”). Time = base time × number of runs.
For example, if a stepped step has a Batch size of 24 and an order calls for 72, that’s 3 runs, so the step’s time triples.

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Batch limits and equipment

Two things constrain a stepped step:
  1. Equipment quantity — if you have more than one of a piece of equipment, effective capacity is batch size × number of that equipment. Two ovens halve the number of runs.
  2. Max yield per session — caps how much a single session can produce. Bigger orders split into multiple sessions automatically.
Good to know: Max yield per session appears when a step’s scaling isn’t fixed. Leave it blank if the step can scale indefinitely; set a limit if the mixture degrades or there’s a practical ceiling. The field default is “No limit”.
Pro tip: Combine batch sizes with equipment counts before peak season. If you add a second oven, your stepped Bake steps automatically need fewer runs — and The Sweet Spot will show you the extra capacity.
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