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Keep ingredients and method in a recipe reference
Ingredient lines score 9 for Recipes in Shotnest, while a method-only screen with “Preheat oven” scores just 3, the confidence threshold.
What makes text look like a recipe
The Recipes list includes ingredients, preheat and servings, which score 2 each because they are longer than five letters, and tbsp, tsp and oven, which score 1 each. The sample text contains all six, so Recipes reaches 9. No other shelf scores, which makes this one of the clearest suggestions the rules can give.
A recipe usually spans several screenshots, though, and they do not score alike. A screen with only “Preheat oven” and a baking time gets 2 for preheat and 1 for oven: 3 in total, exactly the threshold. A screen of quantities with no recipe words may score nothing at all.
Copied quantities deserve a second look as well, because the classifier scores words, not numbers: “2 tbsp” and “20 tbsp” add exactly the same points.
Original harmless example
- Text
- Ingredients 2 tbsp oil 1 tsp salt Preheat oven Servings 2
- Expected suggested shelf
- Recipes
Collect the parts of one recipe
- Find the ingredient screenshot on the Recipes shelf and check the title is visible.
- Search for a distinctive ingredient or the dish name to find the method screens; they may sit on another shelf.
- Move any part that landed elsewhere with Move to shelf, or put all parts in one folder.
- Check that quantities and units such as tbsp and tsp are readable in the image, not just in the copied text.
- Keep the source of the recipe with the folder.
- Ingredient screen · Recipes score
- score 9
- Method-only screen · Recipes score
- score 3
Shotnest can share several selected screenshots as one PDF, which keeps the ingredient screen and the method screens in order when you send a recipe to someone or print it. Check the page order in the PDF before sending; it follows your selection, not the recipe.
Easy ways to lose part of a recipe
- Assuming every screen of a recipe went to the same shelf.
- Keeping the ingredient list and deleting the method because it looked like a duplicate.
- Trusting a copied “1 tsp” when the image shows a different fraction.
- Cooking from a partial set because the shelf label looked complete.
An organising label only
A Recipes suggestion says the words look like a recipe. The classifier tool linked below does not test the recipe, check quantities, calculate food safety or add a missing step.