Why converting a whole recipe is harder than converting one number
Occasional single-number converters are useful when you're only unsure about one measurement, but a recipe written entirely in an unfamiliar unit system means converting five, ten, or twenty numbers one at a time — slow, and easy to make an error on at least one of them. This tool instead scans your entire pasted recipe text at once, finds every weight, volume and temperature measurement it can recognise, and converts each one in place, leaving the rest of your recipe's wording untouched.
This is especially useful for recipes found on international cooking sites or in cookbooks from a different country than your kitchen scale and oven dial are calibrated for.
What this converter recognises and what it doesn't
It looks for numbers immediately followed by common unit abbreviations — g, kg, ml, l, oz, lb, fl oz, and temperatures in °C or °F — and converts each occurrence independently. Because it works on text patterns, unusual formatting, spelled-out units ('two hundred grams' instead of '200g'), or unit abbreviations it doesn't recognise won't be converted, so it's worth a quick read-through of the output to catch anything missed.
It does not convert count-based ingredients like '2 eggs' or '3 cloves of garlic', since those don't have a metric/imperial equivalent to convert — as expected, those lines pass through unchanged.
Best practices when converting a whole recipe
Always do a quick sanity check on the converted output before cooking, especially for oven temperature, since a missed or malformed conversion there would be the most disruptive if unnoticed. If your original recipe uses cup or tablespoon measurements rather than metric weight, this specific tool won't catch those — the site's separate measurement converter tool is built for ingredient-specific cup-to-gram conversions instead.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this tool convert cup measurements too?
No — cup measurements depend on the specific ingredient's density, so use the site's dedicated measurement converter tool for cups, which accounts for that.
What if a measurement in my recipe isn't converted?
Check that the unit is spelled the standard way (g, kg, ml, l, oz, lb, °C, °F) directly after the number — unusual spacing or spelled-out units may not be recognised automatically.
Can I convert imperial recipes to metric as well as the other way round?
Yes, use the direction dropdown to choose either metric-to-imperial or imperial-to-metric before converting.
Is the converted recipe formatting preserved?
Yes, only the recognised numbers and units are replaced — line breaks, instructions and ingredient names stay exactly as you pasted them.