How to change cooking methods

Introduction

The Update Dish Cooking Method functionality can be used to correct the nutrition value of an item by selecting the appropriate cooking method.

This impacts the calories and fat by updating the weight of the cooked item.

The information provided is using a calculation of the nutrition value provided by the supplier, with an average percentage change which is from the sourced from the FSA (Food Standards Agency), depending on the cooking method and the product.

Assumptions

As a client you are using Recipe Manager

You are using Nutrition

Where to find this

This is found in Head Office, Recipe Manager, Dishes

Step-by-Step guide

Once you have used the filters or searched for the dish you want to update, click on the dish

Ensure the ingredients in that dish are tagged to a nutrition value, making sure you select the raw version of the item (if you select a cooking method to grilled bacon for example, you are adding the cook effects twice). See the separate user guide on how to tag nutrition

Once nutrition values have been added, you can view them Per 100g of Dish and Per Portion

You are now ready to select the cooking method

In the dish, click on the Update Dish Cooking Method button to go to the Dish Preparation Methods screen

Select the Category and the Preparation Method for the items you want to update. You don't have to do this for all items

(If you cant find the correct preparation method, please raise a support ticket and will see if this method is available for the product requested and if it is we will uploaded to the system)

Click Update and see the results in the nutrition section of the dish

Comparing the nutrition before and after adding the cooking methods:

The circled data shows where the changes can be seen.

The example dish in this guide contains 120g of raw rice and 300g of raw bacon and makes 2 portions. A portion is 210g.

Once cooked, the rice becomes a lot heavier and the bacon becomes lighter. Using the FSA standard cooking method calculations, 120g of raw rice becomes 304.8g when boiled.

With the cooking methods now applied, although the dish is heavier, it still makes 2 portions and so the calories and fat per portion remain the same. The weight of each portion however has changed from 210g to 265g.

The calories and fat of 100g of Dish has changed. This is because 100g of the dish is now a smaller amount due to the heavier rice.

The below summarised the changes to the data