Record each ingredient you weigh into a batch — from the right WIP lot, at the weight the recipe expects.
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The teriyaki bowls are on their second batch. The scale is zeroed, the rice and chicken are already staged in the kitchen, and the recipe wants fifteen pounds of rice, ten of chicken, and five of simmer base before this batch can move. Weighing is where you record what actually goes in — each ingredient, pulled from a specific lot, at a weight the recipe holds you to. That record is what later ties the finished bowls back to the exact rice and chicken that made them. Open Production runs, pick the run, and open the recipe you're weighing.
Kitchen+Weighing happens on a . From the run's Recipes tab, select Start on a recipe that's still Pending, or Continue on one that's In progress, to open it. If you haven't built the run yet, start a production run first — there's nothing to weigh without one.
The line item opens on the batch you're working. Under Ingredients · batch 2 you'll find every ingredient the batch needs, one row each:
Targets are scaled to the batch. A hundred-unit recipe run as a fifty-unit second batch asks for half of everything, so the numbers you weigh to are the batch's share, not the whole recipe's.
Open the weigh sheet
Select Weigh on the ingredient's row. The sheet opens with the ingredient's name and its target for this batch — Target 10.000 LB for batch 2.
Pick the WIP lot
Choose the you're weighing out of. The list is ordered , and the soonest lot is picked for you. Each option shows how much it holds and when it expires — 80.000 LB available · 90d · Oct 13, 2026. If the row reads No WIP lots are available for this ingredient, none is staged yet; pick ingredients for the day first.
Enter the weight
Quantity starts on the target, so you can take it as-is when the scale agrees or type what it actually reads. Switch the Unit if you weighed in kilograms or ounces — Bettr converts it to pounds for you. Use Notes if the weigh needs a comment.
Save the weighing
Select Save weighing. The ingredient's row flips to Done, and the amount comes off the WIP lot you chose, so its on-hand always reflects what you've used.
Scan the lot instead of scrolling
Scan lot, above the ingredient list, opens the camera to read a WIP lot's QR label. Scan the tote in your hand and Bettr jumps straight to that ingredient with the matching lot selected — handy when a recipe has a long bill of materials.
Every recipe carries a . Weigh within that band and the ingredient counts as Done. Come in above the target but still inside the band and the row also flags it Over, so the overage is easy to spot. Enter a weight outside the band and Bettr refuses it, naming the exact range you have to land in. You also can't weigh out more than a lot holds — if the amount tops the lot's on-hand, Bettr says so and points you at another lot.
A saved weighing can't be undone here
Once you save an ingredient weighing, it stays on the batch — the floor screen has no undo for it, the way recorded output entries do. Two checks keep an obvious slip from landing in the first place: a weight outside the recipe's tolerance is refused, and Bettr won't record the same ingredient into a batch twice.
How you weigh depends on the recipe's setup, shown under the recipe name and on the batch card:
A recipe can't be finished until its batches are weighed. Until then the batch is marked Ingredients pending, and back on the run's Recipes tab the line item carries a red Weigh inputs count — the number of batches still owing ingredient weighings. The Weigh inputs filter on that tab narrows the list to exactly those recipes, so nothing sits half-weighed by accident. Weigh the last ingredient and the count clears; the batch is ready for its output.