Worked example · simulated scenario

Reading Available Quantity in a Match

A recipe match answers how much of its requirement is covered, not how much of every ingredient exists in the whole kitchen. That makes the meaning of “available” important when stock is much larger than one meal needs.

A batch contains 1 kg carrots. Carrot and Red Lentil Soup requires 180 g for two servings.

The row stops at the recipe amount

The recipe row reports 180 g available toward the recipe and 0 g missing. Inventory still contains 1 kg.

Compare the soup with a larger batch

1. Add a carrot batch of 1 kg and record the other soup ingredients in full.
2. Open What Can I Cook? and check recipes.
3. Read the carrot row for the soup.

The soup can use one hundred eighty grams from the kilogram. Showing that covered requirement does not imply the rest disappeared; searching is not a stock withdrawal.

Record the actual amount used later through the inventory removal action.