Recipe scaler for any number of guests
Your favourite biryani recipe serves four, but the whole family is coming over. Instead of doing fractions in your head, paste the ingredient list into this recipe scaler, enter the original and new servings, and get every quantity recalculated — halves, quarters and ranges included, shown in kitchen-friendly fractions like ½ and 1¾. Send the new list to whoever is doing the shopping.
How to use it
- Enter how many people the recipe serves and how many you're cooking for.
- Paste or type ingredients, one per line, with the quantity first (“2 cups rice”).
- Copy the scaled list or share it on WhatsApp.
Scaling tips from the kitchen
- Spices and salt: start with about three-quarters of the scaled amount, then taste.
- Liquids: when cooking a much larger batch, less water evaporates proportionally — add gradually.
- Baking: scaling cakes by odd factors is risky; doubling usually works, but change the tin size.
- Eggs: round to whole eggs, or beat and measure part of one.
Example
A dal recipe for 4 uses 1 cup toor dal, ½ tsp turmeric and 2-3 green chillies. Scaling to 6 people multiplies by 1.5: 1½ cups dal, ¾ tsp turmericand 3–4½ chillies (use 3 or 4). Shopping for a party? Keep the list in theonline notepad so it's on your phone at the shop.