How To Figure Out Serving Size Of A Recipe

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Scale recipes upward or down with our recipe converter. Only paste a link to your recipe or add your own recipe manually to instantly resize your recipe—no calculations required.

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Prevent waste by knowing exactly how much of an ingredient you lot demand to buy. Scale recipes to get the right serving size and ensure yous never buy more ingredients than y'all need.

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Recipe Converter FAQ

How exercise you calculate servings for a recipe?

To calculate the serving size of a recipe, ingredient quantities are divided by the number of servings. For instance, if a recipe with a serving size of 2 requires 1 onion, we divide one onion by ii. Then, we know that i serving requires 0.five onions.

How do you catechumen serving sizes?

To catechumen serving sizes, nosotros incrementally adjust the private serving size of each ingredient up or downward. For example, if y'all adjust a recipe with 2 servings that needs i onion up to 4 servings, we'll divide the ingredient amount by ii (one onion / ii servings = 0.5 onions) and then multiply that by 4. The terminate result is 2 onions (0.5 onions x 4 servings).

Can all recipes be scaled upward or down?

Yep, unless nosotros are unable to recognize the recipe. If a recipe is not using standard recipe formatting, we may not be able to automatically populate the recipe content and ingredients. If Whisk is unable to recognize your recipe, yous can copy and paste the details into the Recipe Builder and save information technology manually.

Can y'all simply double a recipe?

To double a recipe, just double the corporeality of servings by multiplying the serving size past 2. For example, if your recipe serves four, multiply that number by 2 to get 8. Then, utilize the "+" icon to adjust the serving size from 4 to viii.