diff --git a/src/ui/selection/BufferedBuildingContent.cpp b/src/ui/selection/BufferedBuildingContent.cpp
index 5ba6afc..2fff66d 100644
--- a/src/ui/selection/BufferedBuildingContent.cpp
+++ b/src/ui/selection/BufferedBuildingContent.cpp
@@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ std::vector<RecipeLineRow::Amount> toAmounts(const std::map<std::string, int>& m
     return amounts;
 }
 
-// Every item one side of the card should list: what the buffer holds, what a cycle
-// moves, and what the building handles at all. A building's buffers can carry items it
-// is not currently making anything of, and an auto-recipe building between cycles names
-// nothing at all, so the three sources are unioned rather than one being picked.
+// Every item one side of the card should list: what the buffer holds and what a cycle
+// moves. Selecting a recipe clears the buffers and sizes them for that recipe alone
+// (REQ-MAT-INPUT-BUFFER, REQ-MAT-OUTPUT-BUFFER), so the two agree wherever a recipe is
+// in force. They are unioned for the sake of the Salvage Bay, which has no recipe to
+// name its scrap and so is named by its buffer alone (REQ-BLD-SALVAGE-BAY).
 std::set<std::string> collectItemIds(const std::map<std::string, int>& buffered,
-                                     const std::map<std::string, int>& perCycle,
-                                     const std::vector<std::string>& handled)
+                                     const std::map<std::string, int>& perCycle)
 {
     std::set<std::string> itemIds;
     for (const std::pair<const std::string, int>& entry : buffered)
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ std::set<std::string> collectItemIds(const std::map<std::string, int>& buffered,
     {
         itemIds.insert(entry.first);
     }
-    itemIds.insert(handled.begin(), handled.end());
     return itemIds;
 }
 
@@ -153,7 +152,7 @@ std::vector<ItemChipRow::Entry> BufferedBuildingContent::buildInputEntries(
 
     std::vector<ItemChipRow::Entry> entries;
     for (const std::string& itemId :
-         collectItemIds(buffered, cycle.perCycleInputs, cycle.handledInputs))
+         collectItemIds(buffered, cycle.perCycleInputs))
     {
         // An auto-recipe building's buffers are sized over every recipe of its type,
         // including recipes still locked, so those entries are left out here
@@ -210,23 +209,22 @@ std::vector<ItemChipRow::Entry> BufferedBuildingContent::buildOutputEntries(
 
     std::vector<ItemChipRow::Entry> entries;
     for (const std::string& itemId :
-         collectItemIds(buffered, producible, cycle.handledOutputs))
+         collectItemIds(buffered, producible))
     {
         if (!getContext().sim->isItemUnlocked(itemId)) { continue; }
 
         ItemChipRow::Entry chip;
         chip.itemId = itemId;
         // Counted against this item's own buffer capacity, which is what production
-        // stops at (REQ-MAT-OUTPUT-BUFFER, REQ-UI-SINGLE-SELECTION). A chip for an item
-        // the building has no buffer for -- one left over from a previous recipe --
-        // carries the bare count, as an unsized buffer has no denominator to state.
+        // stops at (REQ-MAT-OUTPUT-BUFFER, REQ-UI-SINGLE-SELECTION). Every item listed
+        // here has one: a recipe sizes a buffer for each item it can produce and
+        // selecting it clears whatever the previous recipe left, so no chip stands for
+        // an unsized buffer.
         const std::map<ItemType, int>::const_iterator capIt =
             building.outputBuffer.caps.find(ItemType{itemId});
         const int cap =
             (capIt != building.outputBuffer.caps.end()) ? capIt->second : 0;
-        chip.countText = cap > 0
-            ? tr("%1 / %2").arg(lookUp(buffered, itemId)).arg(cap)
-            : QString::number(lookUp(buffered, itemId));
+        chip.countText = tr("%1 / %2").arg(lookUp(buffered, itemId)).arg(cap);
         chip.subLine = QString::fromStdString(toDisplayName(itemId));
         entries.push_back(chip);
     }
diff --git a/src/ui/selection/BufferedBuildingContent.h b/src/ui/selection/BufferedBuildingContent.h
index 098e85f..dc81ad5 100644
--- a/src/ui/selection/BufferedBuildingContent.h
+++ b/src/ui/selection/BufferedBuildingContent.h
@@ -38,13 +38,6 @@ protected:
         // item any group can produce.
         std::vector<std::vector<RecipeLineRow::Amount>> perCycleOutputGroups;
 
-        // Items the card lists whether or not they are currently in the buffers, for a
-        // building whose recipe is implicit and so has nothing to name while it sits
-        // between cycles (REQ-BLD-SMELTER, REQ-BLD-REPROCESSING). They carry no
-        // per-cycle denominator, since no one recipe is in force.
-        std::vector<std::string> handledInputs;
-        std::vector<std::string> handledOutputs;
-
         // False when the building produces nothing at all (the Salvage Bay,
         // REQ-BLD-SALVAGE-BAY) or has no recipe or schematic selected yet: the
         // production section is then not shown (REQ-UI-PRODUCTION-PROGRESS).