The First Pour 7 min
Know what a bar really costs
Recipes are the platform's source of truth: yields, ingredient lines, live cost per unit, and the market comparisons that keep your numbers honest.
A recipe on Artysan is more than a formula. It is the yield you actually get, the cost of every line at your real supplier prices, and the number most makers have never seen written down: what one unit truly costs to make.
Cost per unit, computed live
Each ingredient line multiplies amount by your cost for that material, pulled from inventory. The recipe totals those lines and divides by yield. Change a supplier price once in inventory and every recipe that uses it updates - no spreadsheet to chase.
Cost per unit
$2.30
$27.65 across 12 units. Materials only - the Include-my-time toggle adds labor.
This is the same arithmetic the recipe page runs - batch cost over yield, nothing hidden.
The market comparison
Where public price data exists for a material, the recipe page shows the market median beside your cost, flagged clearly as sample or live data. A line reading “your cost is 348% above the median” is not a scolding - it is a nudge to check the next restock. If a match looks wrong, the wrong match? control on the line tells us so.
| Column | What it is | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Amount | How much this batch uses | You, once |
| Cost/unit | Your real price for the material | Inventory (live) |
| Total | Amount times your cost | Computed |
| % | Share of the batch by weight | Computed |
| Market | Median where public data exists | Price data (labelled) |
Price from your numbers, not from what the stall next to you charges.
What a recipe unlocks
From the recipe card you can start a batch (quantities prefilled, stock deducted with one confirm), and from a finished batch you can create a listing. Calculators that produce formulas live inside the recipe editor too, so a lye calculation or a fragrance load lands directly in the recipe instead of a notebook margin.