Cooking calculators

Recipe scaling, oven temperatures and kitchen measures

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Which kitchen calculator to use

Volume and weight are different questions in the kitchen. The kitchen measurement converter converts between volumes such as teaspoons, tablespoons, cups and milliliters, while the cups to grams converter turns a cup of a specific ingredient into its weight, because a cup of flour and a cup of sugar weigh different amounts.

To change how much a recipe makes, the recipe scaler multiplies every ingredient for a new number of servings. To bake the same recipe in a different tin, the baking pan converter scales it by the ratio of the two pans' base areas instead. The oven temperature converter moves between Celsius, Fahrenheit, gas marks and fan settings, the roasting time calculator estimates oven time from the weight of a joint, and the coffee ratio calculator gives coffee and water doses for each brew method.

Each page lists the figures it works from, such as the grams per cup for each ingredient or the brew ratio for each method, so you can see where a number comes from and adjust it to your own kitchen.