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Working on a candidate

Open a card: the source sits on the left, and on the right is an editable ingredient table with every ingredient the AI read out of the source.

The rule

The candidate is the draft. Whatever you set here is what Promote uses — it stops guessing at quantities the moment you’ve typed them.

The ingredient table

Each row carries what the AI read, the pantry item you match it to, a quantity, a unit, a note and a live cost, totalling at the top.

  • Match an ingredient from the combobox. You choose the pantry item — the AI no longer pre-picks one, so the field starts empty and waits for you.
  • Quantities pre-fill when readable. “240g guanciale” lands as 240 + g; Italian decimal commas work. When it can’t parse — “a handful”, “q.b.” — the field stays empty and the hint sits underneath.
  • Costs fill as soon as you match an item. A unit mismatch leaves the cost blank rather than showing a phantom number.
  • Reorder by dragging the ⋮⋮ grip. The drag is the save.

Steps edit the same way below.

The chef’s transcript

Under the title, collapsed, is what the chef actually said in the video — word for word. It’s the source of truth; the table above is an interpretation of it.

It’s editable, and worth editing — Promote uses your saved version, so a cleaned transcript reads through into a much better recipe.

No transcript? Transcribe audio in the video panel, or type one in. Music-only videos come back empty with a note; there just aren’t any words.

The team thread

Leave a technique note, flag an allergen, argue for a different ingredient. Append-only and chronological, so a week-old candidate reads like a slow review.

You can always delete your own comments. Deleting someone else’s needs the R&D editor permission.

Good to know

  • Photos scraped from the source, frames you saved, and anything you upload all live in the gallery strip. They carry over on Promote in order — the first becomes the hero.
  • Uploads take JPEG, PNG, HEIC, MP4 or WebM up to 50 MB; HEIC converts automatically.