# Recipes in the app - can you copy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Anova Precision® Oven\ **Created:** [August 3, 2021, 4:18am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056 "2021-08-03T04:18:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![cgfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@cgfan](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/cgfan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056/8 "2021-11-17T19:24:10Z")
I ran into this myself just as you illustrate - in doing target temperature variations on Sous Vide recipes… While copying would help a lot, I also [suggested another means](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/feature-request-user-system-variable-support-in-recipes-duplicate-recipe/29555) in a recent post of mine, though fear my wording wasn’t very clear, or at least to those unfamiliar w/programming terms or concepts. But in general the idea is to allow for a recipe to refer to not a fixed/specified numeric temp or time, but rather to a **“named variable”** instead that can later be specified each time one runs the recipe, a means to have a single **master recipe** that runs with varying temps or times each time it’s run… Even better would be to allow for several recipes to refer to the same master recipe, with each recipe specifying values for each of these “named variable” temps or times referenced in the master recipe… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/recipes-in-the-app-can-you-copy/29056)._