Times and servings
Prep, cook and rest times, how total time is worked out, and servings with a unit.
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Times
| Field | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Prep (min) | Hands-on time before cooking: chopping, mixing. |
| Cook (min) | Time on the heat or in the oven. |
| Rest (min) | Hands-off waiting: chilling, rising, marinating, cooling. |
Enter whole minutes. For 1 hour 30 minutes, type 90. The card shows it as 1 hr 30 mins.
Total time is prep + cook + rest, worked out for you. Recipes imported from another plugin keep the total time they had there until you change one of the times.
Times you leave at 0 aren’t shown.
In Google’s recipe data, prep, cook and total times are sent (prepTime, cookTime, totalTime). Google has no field for rest time, so it only counts toward the total.
Servings
- Servings — a number, e.g.
4or24. - Unit — what the number counts, e.g. cookies, slices, muffins. Leave it empty when it’s people or portions.
The card shows 24 cookies or 4 servings. The servings number is what readers change when they scale the recipe (− / +), so fill it in if you want scaling to work. See Reader features.
