Idiot Cooking Tools is a single-purpose toolbox for the kitchen — recipe costing, conversions, calorie counting, meal planning and more. Every tool runs instantly in your browser.
26 single-purpose tools, each built for one job.
Work out the exact cost per serving of any recipe from your ingredient prices.
Open tool →Convert cups, grams, ml, ounces and tablespoons for common kitchen ingredients.
Open tool →Add up ingredients to get total and per-serving calories for a whole recipe.
Open tool →Figure out how much food to prepare per guest for any type of gathering.
Open tool →Search any ingredient and see ratio-accurate substitutes you can use instead.
Open tool →Scale an entire ingredient list up or down to any number of servings.
Open tool →Convert between Celsius, Fahrenheit and Gas Mark oven settings instantly.
Open tool →Check classic baking ratios (flour:fat:sugar:egg) using baker's percentages.
Open tool →Generate a randomised weekly meal plan from your chosen cuisines and meals.
Open tool →Turn a list of dishes into an aisle-sorted shopping list in seconds.
Open tool →Track pantry and fridge items and see what is about to expire first.
Open tool →Build a printable nutrition-facts label from a recipe's ingredient list.
Open tool →Calculate exact water or sugar dilution ratios for syrups and squashes.
Open tool →Convert an entire pasted recipe between metric and imperial in one click.
Open tool →Estimate roasting and boiling times by food type and weight.
Open tool →Look up calories and macros per 100g for common raw ingredients.
Open tool →Work out how many bottles and servings you need for a party by guest count.
Open tool →Scale classic spice-blend recipes up to the exact quantity you need.
Open tool →Enter what is left in your fridge and get matching recipe ideas.
Open tool →Generate and print a custom kitchen conversion chart for your wall.
Open tool →Convert any oven recipe's temperature and time into air fryer settings.
Open tool →Work out your bread dough's hydration percentage and adjust it to a target.
Open tool →Convert stovetop or oven cooking times into pressure cooker timings.
Open tool →Get the correct coffee or tea to water ratio for any cup or pot size.
Open tool →Find the recommended marinating time range for any protein by weight and cut.
Open tool →Scale classic drink ratios like sour or highball to any glass size.
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