A standardized recipe is one that has been tried, tested, evaluated, and adapted for use by your school food service. It produces a consistent quality and yield every time when the exact procedures, equipment, and ingredients are used.
What are standard recipes?
A standardized recipe is one that has been tried, tested, evaluated, and adapted for use by your school food service. It produces a consistent quality and yield every time when the exact procedures, equipment, and ingredients are used.
What does Standard mean in cooking?
A standardized recipe is instructions for consistently preparing a set quantity of food or drink at an expected quality. The purpose of a standardized recipe is to produce uniform taste and quantity each time the recipe is made. Regardless of who’s making it.
What is standard recipe and standard portion size?
The standard recipe lays down all the ingredients, method of production and quantities used. It indicates the number of portions to be served. This will determine the size of the portion of production control. A section giving variation can be added to reduce the total number of recipes required.
Why do restaurants use standard recipes?
A standardized recipe produces a specific quality and quantity of food for a specific restaurant. That recipe is unique to the restaurant and the creative ideas of the person who created the dish. Once that standardized recipe is created it will become one of the most powerful documents in a foodservice operation.
