# Recipe Files

Recipes are composed of individual recipes and their associated Configurations. They are stored in the Projects\<Project Name>\Recipes directory, as JSON files.

Note: Although the files within the Recipes folder are in the JSON format, and can be edited by a standard text editor, Cognex advises only editing the files within Cognex Designer.

Within the Recipes folder, there will be a directory of "Recipes" folders, which will contain a "Directory" JSON file and the Configuration files (also in JSON format). The Directory file contains the name and description of the individual configurations. For example, if you had a project named "Inspection" that had a Recipe called "PartTolerance" with two Configurations called "Part1" and "Part2", the folder and file directory would be: Projects\Inspection\Recipes\PartTolerance, which would contain the Directory, Part1, and Part2 JSON files.