Comparison
escandallos.es alternative: Farinu for bakers who sell
If you want an escandallos.es alternative, the short answer is this: escandallos.es is a solid web tool for kitchen cost sheets, built for restaurants, caterers, pastry shops and schools, while Farinu costs your recipes and also runs the rest of a small bakery, from custom orders with deposits to stock and a monthly profit and loss. If all you need is a cost sheet you can export to Excel or PDF, escandallos.es may be enough.
| Feature | escandallos.es | Farinu |
|---|---|---|
| Main audience | Restaurants, catering, pastry shops, schools, food brands | Home and micro bakers |
| Recipe cost sheets | Yes | Yes |
| Reusable base recipes | Yes, base cost sheets | Yes, sub-recipes |
| Labour, machines and overhead in the cost | Not mentioned | Yes |
| Ingredient price history and alerts | Price history and the date of each price's last update | Margin alerts when a price rise cuts a recipe's margin |
| Suggested selling prices | Sales price sheets | Suggested prices from a target markup or price |
| Price lists such as retail and wholesale | Not mentioned | Yes |
| Menus and services | Yes | No, built for products you sell |
| Ingredient library | More than 1,000 ingredients plus your own | Your own ingredients, or imported from a photo or spreadsheet |
| Customers, orders, deposits | Not mentioned | Yes |
| Sales log and monthly P&L | Not mentioned | Yes |
| Production plan, stock and purchases | Not mentioned | Yes |
| Export | Excel and PDF | Not the focus |
| Roles | Edit prices or view only | Owner and helper; helpers never see costs |
| Free plan | Básico, 0 euros, 1 user, limits not stated | Costing for up to 10 recipes |
| Paid plans | Personal and Equipo coming soon, no price listed | Team |
Last verified October 11, 2026
What escandallos.es does well
escandallos.es is a Spanish web application focused on creating and managing escandallos, the cost sheets kitchens use to know what a dish or a cake really costs. According to its own site, checked on 11 October 2026, it offers an editor for ingredient quantities with instant cost updates, a library of more than 1,000 ingredients plus your own custom ones, base cost sheets you can reuse inside others, and menus that group cost sheets to cost a whole service.
It also lists price control with a price history, sales price sheets, technical sheets, allergen details, scaling and comparison tools, export to Excel and PDF, and roles so some users can edit ingredient prices while others only view.
On pricing, its plans page shows a Básico plan at 0 euros for one user, with Personal and Equipo plans marked as coming soon and no price listed. The free plan has limits on the number of cost sheets, base sheets per sheet and ingredients per sheet, but the page gives no numbers and says the limits can be changed per user on request.
Where a home baker needs more than a cost sheet
A cost sheet answers one question: what does this cake cost me to make? A home or micro baker usually has a few more questions the same week. What should I charge on my wholesale list compared with walk-in customers? Did flour going up last month eat my margin? Has this customer paid the deposit for Saturday's order? What do I need to bake tomorrow, and do I have enough butter?
escandallos.es is built around the cost sheet and the menu, which is what a restaurant kitchen needs. Its site does not describe customer orders, deposits, a sales log, a production plan, stock or a profit and loss report, so if you need those you would keep them in another tool or a notebook. Farinu was built for that whole loop in a small bakery.
What Farinu covers as an escandallos.es alternative
Farinu starts where escandallos.es is strongest, recipe costing, and keeps going into the day-to-day of selling what you bake.
- Recipe costing with ingredients, packaging per finished unit, sub-recipes such as a frosting or a base dough, labour by position and minutes, machines such as the oven, and overhead on the time a batch occupies your kitchen.
- Suggested prices from a target markup or target price, rounded to the step you choose, and the margin each price leaves.
- Price lists, for example retail and wholesale, each with its own price per product.
- Margin alerts when an ingredient price rises and pushes a recipe below its target, with a suggested new price you can accept or dismiss.
- Customers with their WhatsApp number, and custom orders with deposits and balance payments.
- A sales log and a monthly profit and loss.
- A production plan and production log, plus purchases and stock levels.
- An AI assistant that imports recipes from a photo or a spreadsheet, so you do not retype your notebook, and an MCP server so you can work with your bakery data from Claude or ChatGPT.
- Owner and helper roles: a helper can log sales, orders and production but never sees your costs.
A worked example: costing one lemon loaf
Here is an example of the full cost of one batch of lemon loaves, the kind of sum both tools help with. The numbers are illustrative, not data from any real bakery.
Ingredients for a batch of 4 loaves come to 7.20 USD. Packaging is a box and a label at 0.60 USD per loaf, so 2.40 USD. Your own time is 50 minutes at 15 USD an hour, 12.50 USD. Oven time is 45 minutes, which at a running cost of 0.80 USD an hour adds 0.60 USD. Overhead such as rent share and utilities, charged at 4 USD per hour of kitchen time over 1.5 hours, adds 6 USD.
The batch costs 28.70 USD, or about 7.18 USD per loaf. With a target markup of 100 percent, the suggested price is about 14.35 USD, which Farinu would round to your rounding step, for example 14.50 USD, a margin of roughly 50 percent. A plain ingredient-only sum would have said 1.80 USD per loaf and led you to undercharge badly.
Which one should you choose?
Choose escandallos.es if you run a restaurant or catering kitchen, think in menus and services, want a large ready-made ingredient library, or simply need tidy cost sheets to export to Excel or PDF and share. Its free plan for one user is a reasonable place to start.
Choose Farinu if you sell cakes, bread or cookies from home or a small workshop and want the cost of each recipe to flow into your prices, your orders, your stock and your monthly result. You can cost up to 10 recipes and take up to 50 orders a month on the free plan, and move to Team when you want unlimited orders, sales, stock, helpers and the assistant.
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Questions
- Is escandallos.es free?
- Its pricing page, checked on 11 October 2026, lists a Básico plan at 0 euros for one user, with limits on the number of cost sheets that it does not quantify. Personal and Equipo plans are marked as coming soon.
- Can I move my recipes from escandallos.es to Farinu?
- escandallos.es exports cost sheets to Excel. Farinu's AI assistant can import recipes from a spreadsheet or a photo, so you can bring them in without retyping, then check quantities and units before saving.
- Does Farinu include labour and overhead in the recipe cost?
- Yes. Each recipe can carry labour by position and minutes, machines such as the oven, packaging per unit and overhead on the time a batch uses your kitchen, on top of ingredients and sub-recipes.
- Is Farinu only for Spain?
- No. Farinu is for home and micro bakers anywhere, and each bakery works in its own currency.
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Cost your first recipes for free
Create a free account and cost up to 10 recipes with labour, packaging and overhead included. Take up to 50 orders a month too, and upgrade to Team when you want unlimited orders, sales and stock in the same place.