[Feature] link ingredients to steps during Cook Mode

[RossBurrow]

What problem does this solve?

Linking the ingredients to the step in a recipe will help me use the app better.
In cook mode, instead of having "chop onions" and have to scroll up to see how many grams are needed. Displaying both together will be make it easier.

Proposed solution (optional)

Next to each instruction step have the option to lonk the ingredients it requires.
Display both the ingredients (including the weight and any notes) and the step during cook mode.

Alternatives you've considered

I tried searching if this is annoption but couldnt see it (forgive me if it exists)

Additional context

See screenshot from Mealie how they have done it.
Thanks

[thebigjoe1]

This is a good request, and it fits well with how the recipe schema already stores steps as JSON. I'll add an ingredientRefs field per step (stable IDs, not array indexes, so reordering ingredients doesn't break links), a chip-picker per step in the editor, and inline ingredient rendering in cook mode below each step. Ingredients not linked to any step stay in the top ingredient list, so existing recipes work unchanged.

No plan to auto-detect ingredient references from step text in v1 of this enhancement.... but Mealie doesn't either, and fuzzy matching is noisy. Manual linking during recipe entry (or after import) is the trade-off. I will consider and look into once the manual flow is in place and we see how much data linking users do.

Will comment when on dev.

[thebigjoe1]

Ok finally got to this! This is on dev now. Recipe editor gets a per-step "Link ingredients" panel (collapsed by default, opens with a chevron) with chip toggles for every ingredient in the recipe. In Cook Mode each step renders its linked ingredients inline right below the step text; tapping an ingredient there checks it off the top list too, and marking a step done also marks its linked ingredients as used.

As an added bonux, Tandoor imports now preserve step→ingredient adjacency, so anyone migrating from Tandoor gets the links populated automatically without having to redo them by hand.

Auto-detecting refs from step text is still deferred for the reasons above. Give it a try and let me know your thoughts. It will be in the next dev release soon

[thebigjoe1]

Released in new dev 1.2 release. Closing feature request. if not as expected or not working properly please feel free to reopen.