Just recently discovered this Awesome tool! Thanks! I have an idea for a new feature... I hope it is new... haven't had time read all 167 pages on here so pardon if this has already been addressed at some point. ;-)
I am fairly new to DIY and at the moment I only do it to save money feeding my families nic habits. I use the various DIY web sites to find recipes that sound interesting and import them and use this tool to create shopping lists and track inventory etc. From what I have gathered, this tool is tuned more for recipe creators and explorers rather than cheap b-tards like me.
Anyway the idea:::
I would like a way to define how many bottles (of various sizes) I want to be able to make at any given time in batches of several recipes (some with multiple bottles) at once. The tool would then tell me if I needed to order anything in order to achieve that. We mix our favorite recipes in big batches about every 3 or 4 months. Sometimes we might make 5 or 6 110 ml batches of a single recipe while others only 1 of each and yet others none at all.
From what I can tell the tool currently only tells me if I can make a single batch of a single recipe. After I make that then I might not have enough stock left to make anymore of that recipe and likely several other recipes as well.
If there were a text box on the recipe page for batch size the inventory system could be made to alert globally any time one or more of the recipes were going to be shorted on the desired batch size.
Batch size is different than "Amount to make (ATM)" since we need ATM to calculate and print the various grams we need to put into each bottle. (we mix 110ml batches by mass directly into 120ml individual gorilla bottles - less mess that way)
I hope all that makes sense. I am surely not the only recipe following cheap b-tard out there using tools like this to help track my ingredient inventory.
I tried using a spreadsheet to track everything at first but as our recipe list grew and grew it got way to complicated to keep track of everything. As a result we kept running short of key ingredients on mixing days and even using this tool it has still happened albeit to a lesser degree.