Scale a recipe

Adjust the amounts to the number of people you want: paste the ingredients, set the original servings and the ones you need, and get the recalculated quantities.

Recipe servings

Servings you want

×0.5

Ingredients (one per line, with the quantity at the start)

Recalculated ingredients

Only the first number on each line (the quantity) is recalculated. Still, double-check cooking times and temperatures, which should not be scaled.

How it works

The tool computes a factor by dividing the servings you want by the recipe's servings, then multiplies the quantity at the start of each line by that factor. It handles whole numbers, decimals (e.g. 1.5) and fractions (e.g. 1/2 or 1 1/2).

Tip

Some ingredients don't scale perfectly linearly: yeast, salt, spices and aromatics often need to be dosed «to taste» when you change the amounts a lot. And remember that cooking times and temperatures usually stay the same: change the tin size instead.