CookBook Team
Free cooking tools and charts
Convert measurements, scale recipes and work out dough, ganache and pan sizes with free calculators that show their maths. Ingredient weights come from CookBook's tested conversion library. No account needed.
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Measure and convert
Start here when a recipe uses cups, spoons or oven settings you do not have. Every converter shows its assumptions next to the answer.
| Tool | Use it to |
|---|---|
| Ingredient weight chart | Find grams per cup and tablespoon for more than 280 ingredients, or download the data. |
| Cooking unit converter | Convert cups, spoons, millilitres, grams and ounces with US, metric, Australian or imperial measures. |
| Flour cups to grams | Convert cups of plain, bread, cake, wholemeal or almond flour to grams. |
| Oven temperature converter | Switch between Celsius, Fahrenheit and fan oven settings. |
Scale and plan a bake
These calculators do the arithmetic when you change a recipe's size, pan or formula.
| Tool | Use it to |
|---|---|
| Recipe servings calculator | Scale ingredient amounts to the number of servings you need. |
| Baking pan size converter | Scale a recipe between round, square and rectangular pans. |
| Baker's percentage calculator | Turn bread recipes into baker's percentages and back, with hydration and starter included. |
| Pizza dough calculator | Work out flour, water, salt, yeast and oil in grams for any number of pizzas. |
| Ganache ratio calculator | Find a chocolate to cream ratio for glaze, filling or truffles and scale it. |
Understand the method
Want the reason behind the numbers? The cooking and baking guides explain dough hydration, preferments, caramelization, the Maillard reaction, sugar syrup stages, pastry and meringue, with sources for every figure.
Keep your recipes together
Save the recipes you adjust in CookBook. You can change servings and the measurement system while you cook, plan meals and turn recipes into shopping lists.