How to use the recipe converter
- Paste the ingredient list, one ingredient per line, straight from a recipe website, a cookbook photo or your notes.
- Choose how to scale: by servings (the recipe makes 12, you want 18) or by a multiplier (× 2, × 1.5, × 0.5).
- Copy the scaled list, print it, or save it as a PDF to cook from.
Kitchen measurement conversions
| Measure | Tablespoons | Teaspoons | Fluid oz | Milliliters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 cup | 16 tbsp | 48 tsp | 8 fl oz | 237 ml |
| ¾ cup | 12 tbsp | 36 tsp | 6 fl oz | 177 ml |
| ⅔ cup | 10 tbsp + 2 tsp | 32 tsp | 5.3 fl oz | 158 ml |
| ½ cup | 8 tbsp | 24 tsp | 4 fl oz | 118 ml |
| ⅓ cup | 5 tbsp + 1 tsp | 16 tsp | 2.7 fl oz | 79 ml |
| ¼ cup | 4 tbsp | 12 tsp | 2 fl oz | 59 ml |
| 1 tbsp | 1 tbsp | 3 tsp | ½ fl oz | 15 ml |
Weight: 1 lb = 16 oz = 454 g, and 1 oz = 28 g.
Doubling and halving: what to watch
- Eggs. Round to the nearest whole egg. For half an egg, beat one and use about 2 tablespoons.
- Salt, spices and chili. Scale them, then taste. When doubling, start with about 1¾ times and add the rest if needed.
- Baking powder and yeast. Scale these exactly; they matter more than anything else in a bake.
- Pans and timing. Keep the batter or food at the same depth. A doubled cake goes into two pans, not one deeper pan.
- Slow cookers and pressure cookers. Don't fill more than two-thirds full when you scale up.
Scaling recipes for meal prep and the week
Scaling is how you cook once and eat twice: double a chili on Sunday and you have a second dinner or lunches for the week. A weekly meal plan template helps you plan those extra portions.
Simmer, our meal planner app, scales any recipe in its recipe box to the servings you plan, adds up the scaled ingredients across the week into one grocery list (3 + 4 + 4 cloves of garlic become 11), and shows each scaled step in cook mode with timers. Try the free demo. To see what the bigger batch will cost, use the recipe cost calculator. If your recipes are scattered across screenshots and cookbooks, here's how to organize recipes.
Frequently asked questions
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Emma Whitfield writes and edits the VaultlyApps money guides and free calculators. Her focus is US household finance — budgeting on a real paycheck, paying down credit card and student debt, emergency funds and savings goals, renting — and the money side of freelancing and small-business income, from pricing and profit margins to self-employment tax. Every guide is researched against primary sources such as IRS publications and the CFPB, every number is checked in our tested calculators, and tax content is reviewed each year when new IRS figures come out. Emma is not a licensed financial adviser or tax preparer; her work is general education, not personal advice.
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