Free Food & Cooking Calculators

Ratios travel; recipes do not

A recipe works at one batch size in one pan. A ratio works at any size: baker’s percentages scale a dough from one loaf to forty without arithmetic errors, and a brew ratio holds whether you are making one cup or a litre. These pages give you the ratio and the scaled quantities together, so you can see what changed and what did not.

Food safety is not a suggestion

Thawing and roasting times here come from USDA FSIS and equivalent national food-safety guidance, cited on the page, never from an average of what other sites say. Every page that touches raw meat states the safe minimum internal temperature and says the same thing plainly: a thermometer confirms doneness, a timer only tells you when to check. Cold-water thawing carries its mandatory thirty-minute water-change rule wherever it appears.

One question per page

Sizing a bird, thawing it and roasting it are three different questions asked at three different times, so they are three pages rather than one page repeated. Each links the other two and says in a sentence what it does not cover.