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Recipe Scaler — paste any recipe, change servings, get every ingredient auto-scaled

Recipe scaler — paste any recipe, change servings, get all ingredient amounts auto-scaled. Handles fractions and unit conversion.

  • Runs locally
  • Category Calculator
  • Best for Getting a realistic range before a purchase, plan, workout, or schedule decision.
Tip: oven temperature stays the same. When scaling down check 5-10 min earlier; when scaling up add 10-15 min. Pan size matters — halving a cake wants a smaller tin.
Quick presets:
One ingredient per line. Prose lines (like "salt to taste") and oven temps pass through untouched.
Scaled recipe
150 g all-purpose flour
100 mL whole milk
1 piece eggs
½ tbsp olive oil
¼ tsp salt
½ cup sugar
180 °C bake for 30 min

Parsed lines

#originalscaledunitingredient
1300150gall-purpose flour
2200100mLwhole milk
321pieceeggs
41½tbspolive oil
5½¼tspsalt
61½cupsugar

What this tool does

A practical recipe scaler for the situation every home cook hits at least once a month: the recipe is written for 4 people but you're cooking for 2, or for 6, or for one. Paste any ingredient list, type the original servings and the target servings, and every quantity is re-computed at once with the right unit kept on the right line. Parses real-world recipe text — "300 g 面粉", "1 1/2 cups flour", "2 tbsp olive oil", "1/2 tsp salt", "2 个鸡蛋" — and understands the formats home cooks actually paste: integers, decimals, mixed fractions like 1 1/4, and the unicode fractions ½ ⅓ ⅔ ¼ ¾ ⅛ that most converters silently drop. Eggs, slices, cloves, and other countable items are rounded to whole numbers so you don't end up with "1.33 eggs". Quantities are pretty-printed back as fractions when the result lands on a clean ½ / ⅓ / ¼ — keeps the page readable and grocery-list friendly. Lines without a number (the prose steps, "salt to taste", "pinch of pepper", "热水适量") pass through untouched. Time and temperature lines aren't touched either — because halving a recipe doesn't halve the oven temperature, and the bake time only nudges. A tip strip at the top spells that out. 100% client-side, no upload, no signup, no API call — paste, type two numbers, copy the scaled list back into your notes app.

Tool details

Input
Text + Numbers
The page exposes text boxes, numeric controls, file pickers, or structured inputs depending on the tool.
Output
Live result + Copy
The result area focuses on usable output, with copy, download, or preview actions when supported.
Privacy
Browser-side processing
The main tool logic does not call an external API, so inputs normally stay in the current tab.
Save / share
No account required
Open the page and use it; whether results survive refresh depends on the tool.
Performance budget
Initial JS <= 18 KB
No WASM budget is declared, keeping the tool quick to open on mobile.
Best fit
Calculator · Student
Category and role tags drive related tools, internal links, and quick fit checks.

How to use

  1. 1. Input

    Paste or drop your content into the tool panel.

  2. 2. Process

    Click the button. All processing is local in your browser.

  3. 3. Copy / Download

    Copy the result or download to disk in one click.

How Recipe Scaler fits into your work

Use it for fast estimates, comparisons, and planning numbers before you make the final call.

Calculation jobs

  • Getting a realistic range before a purchase, plan, workout, or schedule decision.
  • Comparing scenarios by changing one input at a time.
  • Turning rough assumptions into a number you can discuss.

Calculation checks

  • Double-check units, dates, rates, and rounding assumptions.
  • Treat health, finance, tax, and legal outputs as planning aids, not professional advice.
  • Save the inputs that produced an important result so you can reproduce it later.

Good next steps

These links move the current task into a more complete workflow.

  1. 1 Unit Converter Convert between length, weight, temperature, area, volume, speed, time — instant, browser-only Open
  2. 2 Cooking Unit Converter Cooking unit converter — tsp / tbsp / cup / oz / ml / g for 100+ common ingredients with density. Open
  3. 3 Calorie Calculator Calorie calculator — daily calorie needs (BMR + TDEE), weight loss/gain targets, macro breakdown. Open

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Made by Toolora · 100% client-side · Updated 2026-06-13