Learn how to utilize Cooking Methods to account for changes to nutritional information when raw foods are cooked.
Table of Contents
- Explanation of Cooking Methods and their use in Galley
- How to add Cooking Methods to Recipes or Ingredients
- How to apply a Cooking Method to an Ingredient (Recommended)
- How to apply a Cooking Method to an item used in a Recipe
- How to add a Cooking Method to a Recipe
- Links to relevant Cooking Methods articles
Background
As food is cooked it undergoes significant transformations that impact nutrients, moisture content, and the density of food. To effectively manage and understand these changes, utilize the Cooking Methods feature within Galley.
Note: Utilize Preparations for raw ingredients—such as peeling, chopping, de-stemming, draining, mincing, and coring—to capture the actual raw ingredient amount used in a recipe.
For instance, if a recipe requires 2 large carrots that are to be prepared by removing the ends, peeling, and chopping, it’s important to accurately account for the quantity of the ingredient by using the Preparations Trim Yield feature in Galley followed by the Cooking Methods functionality to capture changes during the cooking process.
How to add Cooking Methods to Recipes or Ingredients
Add Cooking Methods to your Galley account:
1. Navigate to the 'Recipes Page' then click 'View Cooking Methods'.
2. Click the '+' button, then type in the name of the Cooking Method. For example type in Baked.
3. Add any aditional Cooking Methods you would like to have in your account.
4. Now that you have added the Cooking Method, navigate to the recipe you are using it in.
Tip: Cooking Methods can be applied to Ingredients or Recipes. It is recommended to most often add a Cooking Method to an Ingredient unless a recipe is has minimal ingredients. For example, if baking chicken then the Cooking Method of Baked should be applied to the Raw Chicken Ingredient, not the entire Recipe for the Baked Chicken.
Option 1: Applying a Cooking Method to an Ingredient (Recommended)
1. In Galley recipes are built using the raw version of ingredients (raw chicken, raw vegetables, etc.) which informs accurate Purchasing of ingredients. The nutrition information of the raw or uncooked dish is not equal to the nutrition composition of the cooked dish.
2. Open a Recipe you would like to add a Cooking Method to. In this Recipe example of Citrus Chicken, click the Ingredient 'Chicken, Breasts, Boneless, Skinless'.
3. Navigate the 'Nutrition Tab', then scroll down to Cooking Methods and click the '+' sign and type in Baked.
- There are resources with pre-calculated yield percentages for Meat, Poultry, Grains, Legumes, and more:
- While numerous resources exist, not all ingredients have readily available calculated Yield Percentages. If you need to calculate the Yield Percentage manually, you can use the following formula:
cooked yield percentage= (weight of cooked sample while hot / weight of the raw sample) x 100 - Type in the Yield Percentage field. For Chicken, Breast, Boneless, Skinless enter 72.
6. Search for a USDA Ingredient that is the closest match for the Cooking Method used in the recipe and click to select.
Notice the nutrition information is now showing for 72g based on the 72% Yield Percentage entered and the nutrition information for the raw ingredient is displayed at the top of the screen.
Now when this Ingredient is used in a recipe with the Cooking Method 'Baked', the cooked nutrition information will be used in the final recipe nutrition calculation.
Tip: If you cannot locate a good cooked USDA option, you have the option to manually enter the nutrition information for that cooked Ingredient by clicking the 'Nutrients' dropdown next to the USDA Ingredient search box.
Congrats, you have now successfully set up a Cooking Method for this Ingredient!
👉The next few steps are important!
Applying a Cooking Method to an item used in a Recipe
1. Navigate back to the Recipe and add the Cooking Methods optional column to the Components Table by clicking the '+' on the upper right-hand side of the Components Table.
8. Type in the Cooking Method you would like to add to the ingredient in this recipe. In the example type 'Baked'. Now the nutrition information will be calculated using the Baked Cooking Method nutritionals! 🎉
9. Additionally you can add or view a Cooking Method to an Ingredient or Recipe by navigation to the Recipe Nutrition Tab> scroll down to the Component Nutritional Values Table> click +> add Cooking Methods> search for Cooking Method.
Option 2: Adding a Cooking Method to a Recipe
As a best practice, only add a Cooking Method at the Recipe level (instead of Ingredient level) when the recipe is SIMPLE such as 'Chopped Onions' or 'Diced Carrots'.
1. Navigate to the Recipe. Click 'Nutrition' tab.
2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to the Cooking Methods Section.
3. Click the '+' and search for the Cooking Method. Type in Sauteéd.
4. Follow the detailed steps 4-6 above by entering the Yield Percentage and searching and select a USDA cooked ingredient (or manually enter nutrition information). In this example type in 88 for the Yield Percentage and search for onions, sauteed USDA Ingredient.
5. Notice the nutrition information for the sauteéd recipe is displayed when the 'Nutrients' dropdown is clicked, which will be used when this Yellow Onions, Small Dice Recipe is used in any other dishes.