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2 free food tools · Kitchen measurements
Two jobs that come up whenever you cook from someone else’s recipe: resizing it for the number of people actually eating, and converting measurements that assume a different country’s kitchen. Both are handled with the awkward parts stated rather than glossed over — a cup is not one unit, and not every ingredient scales linearly.
All food tools
- Recipe scaler Scale ingredients by servings, keeping kitchen fractions.
- Cooking converter Convert cups, dl, ml, spoons and fluid ounces. US, metric and UK.
Guides
- How to scale a recipe without ruining it Multiplying ingredients works for most cooking and fails for baking. What scales linearly, what needs judgement, and why cooking time and tin size follow different rules.
- A cup is not a cup: US, UK, metric and Australian cups compared A US cup is 236.6 ml, a metric cup is 250 ml, and an old UK cup is 284 ml. Why the same recipe measures differently by country, and when the gap actually matters.
- Why a cup of flour and a cup of honey are not the same weight A cup is a volume, a gram is a weight, and the bridge between them is density. Here is what a cup of each common baking ingredient actually weighs.
- Ounces vs fluid ounces: they are not the same unit An ounce measures weight, a fluid ounce measures volume, and they only coincide for water. Why "8 oz of chicken" and "8 oz of milk" are different kinds of quantity.