Yep , talking about “Search by Flavor Stash”
The “Allow missing flavors” option would be really cool, if not for one little snag
If you check, say, “allow 2” , then the damned silly system gives you a list of recipes which contain precisely two missing flavors ignoring those with only one missing missing flavor, and those with no missing flavours at all! 
And so on.
That would be fine if you were after a good excuse to buy more flavours, wouldn’t it? But what I really want to use that function for, most often , is to avoid missing those recipes that use say, a different formulation of Stevia than I do, or a different syntax on one of the flavours.
I imagine this would be pretty simple to fix?
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I recon you refer to “what can i make” function. Anyways, i actually think it is great as it is, but maybe the wording “allow missing flavors” can be misleading/not specific enough.
However, the reason i personally would prefer it like this, is that in case i wanted to go and look for recipes that i can make, where i would consider allowing some missing flavors because i was about to place an order anyway, then i would first of all go through the ones that would allow 1 missing flavor to see if there was something interesting i wanted to make. Then add that 1 missing flavor to my cart for the recipes found where i was missing 1 flavor. If i didnt find enough interesting recipes where i would only allow 1 missing flavor i would then go to the step with 2 missing flavors. The way it is now i wouldnt end up looking at the exact same recipes i just did when i allowed 1 missing flavor. If you would make it so when you are allowing 2 missing flavors it would show those that also were missing 1 or none, i would easily just end up wasting time looking through many of the same recipes twice.
I hardly use this function to be honest, but just wanted to chip in with a scenario where it works well as it actually is.
A solution that could be more specific and satisfy all parts would be following selections in the drop down:
== 1
<= 1
== 2
<= 2
== 3
<= 3
…
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This is exactly what it is. Allow by definition should included recipes with less than the stated missing flavors.
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yeah, it is. 
I’ve interpreted it literally, wheras it actually means “must have missing flavours; Kick out everything that doesn’t” . I assumed that was a mistake in the program, but you have a point: it might be a mistake in the wording instead
Maybe it’s just because I use a lot of under-used flavours that I don’t find it works very well for me? but I’ve been trying to use the -1 option as the "What can I really make? " option , because the “no missing flavours” option, in practice, excludes a lot more of the recipes I can make than it includes , eg, often the excluded recipes have Organic Stevia (reb A) whereas I have Pyure. No significant difference between the two (Pyure - at least the formulation I have-- actually is organic stevia (reb A) ) but can’t expect the program to recognise that.
I should think menthol lovers have the same problem. There are so many versions of menthol solution listed. I very much doubt that somebody who dilutes it at, say, 20% would turn up their nose at a recipe that calls for a 10% solution.
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