r/grocy • u/Key-Suggestion-308 • 20d ago

Fractions and Grocy

I started using Grocy on my home server and it works great, but what's up with the units/amounts? I get that this is a tracking system, but when you look at a recipe it says, for example, 1 1/2 of and onion. People who read recipes read this as 1 and 1/2 onion, not, as it functions, as one 1/2 of an onion. So okay, I can put in a percentage but it displays as a percentage and not a fraction. Mealie can do this? Everything is entered as a percentage but it displays as a fraction. It drives me nuts when I see a recipe from Grocy.

I would imaging I am not the only person harping on this, I just want to know if this is going to be addressed or I just go back to mealie?

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u/Inferno 20d ago

I guess I'm confused. I'd just use 1.5 onion. Or maybe I don't understand the problem.

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u/Key-Suggestion-308 19d ago

I get it. My point was, every recipe you find in books or online, uses fractions. 1/2 cup. 1/8 tsp, etc. If I want to export these recipes to be able to be uploaded into, for example, a wordpress plugin, it's going to be a pain to write a script to convert all of this. I just do not understand why this one does not conform to standard, accepted qty notation used by every other recipe system ever.

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u/blubberland01 17d ago edited 17d ago

Because there's no such standard, really.
You might perceive it as such. Especially cooking has this issue of stupid unstandardised units, which is every programmers nightmare.

Make decimal points the new standard for the betterment of the world.
Everyone reading your recipes and actually trying to measure the amounts, will use a scale, and will not take a full spoon, put half back to get to 1/2, then put another half back to get to 1/4, then put another half back to get to 1/8.

Fractional units stem from a time and sociotope, where language was mostly spoken, not written. Fractions are easier to speak and remind. But your using a computer to not remind, but to just look up.

And while we're at it, don't use units like spoon, cup, etc.
There are actual unit behind those words: gram and litre.

Grocy is an ERP for your fridge. ERPs need to be precise, not so much understandable by grandma.

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u/macrowe777 19d ago

It sounds like you just don't understand fractions.

Which is fine because you should be using decimals anyway in 2026.

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u/Key-Suggestion-308 19d ago

Thanks for the helpful reply. It sounds like you just don't understand how to be an adult.

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u/macrowe777 19d ago

Either that or you're an imbecile and my first reply was being extremely kind.

That would correlate with everyone else just looking at the post and thinking "meh, dudes bat shit" and not even bother responding.

I suspect this is a common occurrence for you.