Custom units

Beyond the built-in measurements, your household can define its own units — a "knob" of butter, a "glug" of oil, a "clove" — so recipes read the way your kitchen actually talks.

Find it under Household settings → Custom units. It's shared across the whole household, and any member can curate it.

Adding a unit

Each unit has:

• Code — the short, lowercase token stored in recipes (e.g. knob). Keep it short and stable.
• Full name and Abbreviation — how it's shown when reading a recipe.
• Type — Count, Volume, or Weight. Volume and Weight units are convertible: Spoonfed can total them with other units in the same family on your combined ingredient list. Leave it as Count for things that don't convert, like "clove" or "pinch".

Good to know

Recipes reference a unit by its code, so renaming or removing a unit here won't rewrite recipes that already use it — that's why short, stable codes matter.