7 C's: Consistency

In Galley it is important to be consistent in the way you name and reference your ingredients and recipes. In this lesson, we will discuss why we emphasize that you be consistent with your naming.

Consistent naming of unique ingredients and recipes prevents duplicates and allows Galley to run at maximum efficiency. Galley helps maintain consistency when adding recipe components by identifying possible matching ingredients and recipes (partial matches). However, some slip through so it's important to check the matches and clean duplicates up manually.

For example, a Galley account that HAS NOT been consistent in its ingredient naming might have these three ingredients, which in fact should all be the same ingredient (meaning there is only one ingredient being purchased and used for yellow onion across the recipes):

• Onion, Yellow
• Yellow onions
• yellow onion

Duplicates are problematic in Galley, one example being when it comes time to update ingredient information. Instead of having one source of truth for your "Onion, Yellow" ingredient where you can update the information, you would have to make updates in three different locations, which we wouldn't want. We don't want you to be doing that extra work. We built Galley to streamline your workflows and save you time!

This tutorial demonstrates how Galley helps to prevent duplicates through its matching, and also demonstrates how to merge ingredients if duplicate ingredients have accidentally been created in your account.

Next up, we learn about the third C, Canonical and Custom Units.