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What I recently noticed in my playthrough is that some recipes tell you in a different way than other recipes what their end product is.
Some explain it in the title, some have naming inconsistency and some have the "Products" in the hover modal that tells you the quantity of the end product.

I think this is further best explained with a series of screenshots.

I think the different scenarios are:
- Title with quantity (see copper cable, molten iron example)
- In title without quantity and using the "Products" part of the hover modal (molten copper from lava)
- In title with quantity but different name than actual end product (2x casting iron, 20x ice melting)
- Title is description of whats happening and the "Products" part of the hover modal is used to actually tell you the end product (steam condensation)

Yeah, the 20 x Ice melting is very odd.

I came here for the same reason. I first noticed that the recipes for tungsten plate didnt have products section while most other recipes did... and then went looking around more and it seems that any recipe that has multiple products will have a products section but if it doesnt then the products section may or may not get used and the product and amount will be in the title, if its a single product it seems random if the products section gets used or not. ie casting low density structure, and casting iron gear wheel, vs tungsten plate...

on second look it seems that if the recipe title and product output match then the products section does not show up.

It might be better to just always show the products section in space age with all the recipes that now produce multiple outputs vs base.