What is Recipe Scaling?

Recipe scaling adjusts ingredient quantities for different serving sizes. Doubling for guests? Halving for solo cooking? Recipe scaler does the math instantly. Especially useful when adjusting traditional recipes (which often serve 4-6) to your needs. Preserves ingredient ratios for consistent results.

How to use

1. Paste recipe — One ingredient per line with quantity
2. Set original servings — What the recipe makes as written
3. Set desired servings — What you want to make
4. View scaled recipe — All quantities adjusted

Tips

• Format: amount unit ingredient (e.g., "2 cups flour")
• Fractions like 1/2 work
• Cooking time doesn't scale linearly — check doneness internally
• Seasonings (salt, spices) don't always scale linearly — taste and adjust
• Yeast for bread: scale slightly more conservatively (1.5x recipe = 1.3x yeast usually)

FAQs

Halving an egg?

For most baking, 1 egg = 50g. Use half by weight (25g whisked egg). Or substitute: 1 tbsp water + 1 tsp baking powder.

Adjusting cooking time?

Double quantity in same pan = same depth, similar time. Double depth = significantly more time. Larger pan = faster cooking.

What about precision baking?

Baking is chemistry — small scaling errors compound. Use kitchen scale for accuracy. For 3x scaling or more, follow professional adjustments for leavening.

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