This guide is intended as a quick reference for how to work with Some Fine Food. There's no need to read it from top to bottom - Some Fine Food shouldn't be difficult to use - but if you do find yourself stuck or wondering something, hopefully you'll find the answer here.
SCALE button in the top menu.A scale menu appears. Drag to the right to multiply the amount. Drag to the left to divide the amount. Any changes you make remain when you close the scale menu but are not permanent and do not alter the written recipe.
UNITS in the top menu, or by choosing Convert Ingredients from the main menu.When choosing this option, a list of all the units found in the recipe appears. When a unit is ambiguous (such as gallon), one or more choices will appear for it. Once selected, choose what unit to convert to. The recipe will now change the quantity and unit where relevant. Changes are not permanent and do not alter the written recipe.
Hold your finger down on a step for about a second and the step will be enlarged and highlighted. Hold it down again to unpin it. Multiple steps can be pinned.
Just like pinning a cooking step, hold down your finger on an ingredient for a second until it crosses itself off. You can reverse this by holding down again.
Tap the original text again to hide. Tapping the timer itself starts and pauses it. Double-tapping resets it. You can have as many timers open as you need and they will always stay nested alongside the step they originated from, so you can easily keep track.
As Some Fine Food can be used in the browser, you can open two browsers to accomplish this. On the iPad, use Safari in split view mode. On a laptop, open as many windows as you need.
Tap the EDIT button beside Ingredients, Directions or Notes and type or paste a list of steps or ingredients in. Whenever there is a new line, a new ingredient or step is created.
Long hold your finger or mouse on the text you want to change (such as the title, source, yields or cook time) and it will open an edit box for you to make changes.
These extra bits of info aren't necessary for using Some Fine Food. They're here for those of you who want a little bit more detail in describing a recipe.
Surround any line with square brackets [like this] and it will become a title for the steps or ingredients that follow it.
This can help in organising for complicated recipes, diving them into sections. In the case of Directions, it will also restart the step counter.
Add two forward slashes at the end of an ingredient //. Any text after these will be an additional comment, hidden or revealed by tapping the comment button in the top menu bar. Any ingredient with a comment will show a little comment symbol beside it. This keeps the ingredients list simple and uncluttered while letting you have a lot of additional detail when it's needed.
If you start a new line with a + symbol, that new line will remain part of the same step as the last line. Useful if a cooking step needs a short list as part of its instructions.
If Some Fine Food highlights a number and you don't want it to scale you can wrap the number in {noscale:NUMBER} and it will only highlight.
If you don't want a recipe to be viewed by others who have the link, you can lock it. This will prevent it from being viewed by anyone else, but you can still view it yourself. To do this, tap the lock symbol below the title. Tap it again to unlock.
With any recipe open, open the Recipes menu and tap 'Share this Recipe'. On mobile devices you will have the option of what app you want to use to share it. On desktops the share link will be copied to the clipboard.
With any recipe open, open the Recipes menu and tap 'Print this Recipe'. This will open the printing options.
When viewing a recipe, tap the small + symbol below the recipe title to enter a category, such as 'Italian'. Now, when you view your contents you will see this recipe listed under the category you chose.
When viewing your contents, tap the looking glass / search button at the top menu to filter your recipes by title or category.
Just add recipes to a favourites category or experiments and they'll get their own, distinct, section in contents that stands out from standard categories. There's a few organisational categories that can will be highlighted differently, to help your work (such as 'tonight', 'discuss', 'work in progress', 'yet to try').
Creating a new recipe is easily done from the Recipe menu. Just tap New Recipe and you'll be taken to a blank recipe. Fill in, or paste the details and save it.
Copy and paste the link to a recipe and Some Fine Food will attempt to recognise and import it. Not every website is recognised but I'm trying to include the most popular, and the range will grow. If the site is not available, it's possible to copy and paste the section from the site into a new recipe. Please only use recipes you have permission to use for personal use.
This is very experimental right now. Some Fine Food can recognise the text from a photo on your mobile device or from an existing photo. It will attempt to break the text into the right categories. When it guesses it wrong (it's far from perfect), you can edit the new recipe to cut and paste between sections.
Groceries, then View Grocery List.When you first do this, your grocery list will be empty.
Groceries, then, Add to Groceries.You will be asked at what scale you want to add the ingredients. Leave at 1 if you want them added at the original quantities. Once in your grocery list, you can see the scale the recipe was added at, as well as the date. To remove a recipe, tap the - next to its name.
When viewing your grocery list, tap Categorize and Some Fine Food will attempt to work out what ingredients belong together and sort them in respect of this. This makes it far easier to get everything you need in a store.
Any ingredients you check off are synced to any device you access your account from. So if you find you have some ingredients at home, and tick them off on your laptop, you'll find they're still ticked off when you check your grocery list on your phone later.