Every recipe in Recipe Grid is one table. This walkthrough takes a real one apart cell by cell, then shows how to write your own. About two minutes, or step through at your own pace.
Keep this in your head
Full-width rows above the grid are tasks to do before you start: preheat, grease the pan, boil the water.
The ingredients are listed in the order you'll use them, amount first, metric in brackets.
Mash, melt, dice, beat. Do it to that ingredient alone.
Nothing to do yet. It joins in at the next cell that covers its row.
A cell's height is its contents. Everything in the rows it covers goes into one bowl or pan.
Cells whose spans don't overlap are independent. Do them in either order, or at the same time.
A step can start once every cell to its left, within its span, is done.
Lost your place? Find the rightmost cell you've finished. The next one to its right is what you do now.