Sidebar & Library

Where you find every recipe and ingredient.

The sidebar is the persistent left pane in Gelato Maestro. It lists your recipes at the top and your ingredient library underneath, grouped by category. All the global commands live in its toolbar.

Recipes

Every recipe you've created — and the default recipes that ship with Gelato Maestro — appears here. Click one to load it into the detail pane.

Default vs. user recipes

Default recipes are marked with a small lock and cannot be edited or deleted. They're meant as study material and starting templates. To make your own version, open the recipe and choose Duplicate — your copy is fully editable.

Creating a recipe

Click the + button in the sidebar toolbar. The New Recipe sheet asks for:

Name — the working title of the recipe.
Gelato Kind — Cream for milk- or egg-based mixes, Sorbet for water-and-fruit (or water-and-sugar) mixes. This changes which KPI gauges and default ranges are applied.

The Gelato Kind picker showing Cream and Sorbet options. — Gelato Kind switches the active KPI presets for the recipe.

Tip You can also import a recipe by double-clicking a .gmaestro file in Finder or dragging it onto the Gelato Maestro icon — it will be added to your library.

Ingredient Library

Below the recipe list sits your ingredient library. Items are grouped by category so you don't have to scroll past everything you don't need: Dairy, Sugar, Emulsifier, Stabilizer, Fruit, Nut, Chocolate, Egg, Oil, Alcohol, Vegetable, Base, and Other. Tap a category heading to collapse or expand it.

Click any ingredient to inspect its composition, nutrition, cost and notes — see Ingredient Library.

Default vs. custom ingredients

Default ingredients are locked (their composition is curated and stays consistent across updates). When you need to change one, duplicate it and edit the copy. New ingredients you create are always editable.

Creating an ingredient

Use the New ingredient command in the sidebar toolbar (or in the overflow menu on macOS). The composition editor opens — see Editing an Ingredient.

Search

The search field at the top of the sidebar filters both recipes and ingredients together. Matching is diacritic- and case-insensitive, so searching for creme finds Crème and searching for fragola finds Fràgola.

Sidebar toolbar

The toolbar at the bottom (iOS / iPadOS) or in the title bar (macOS) hosts the global commands:

Button	What it does
New Recipe (`+`)	Opens the New Recipe sheet — name and gelato kind.
New Ingredient	Opens the composition editor to create a custom ingredient.
Statistics	Opens the Statistics window with production and financial insights.
Backup	Opens the Backup sheet — export data or PDF archive.
Settings (gear)	Opens Settings: units, mode, iCloud sync, gauges, batch freezers, prices and notifications.

Deleting from the sidebar

To delete a user-created recipe or ingredient:

macOS — select the row and press ⌫ (Delete).
iOS / iPadOS — swipe a recipe row to reveal the delete action.

Default recipes and default ingredients are locked and cannot be deleted.