🍲 Recipe Portion Scaler
Enter your original and target servings, list your ingredients, and every quantity scales together — cooking for two or for a crowd.
What is a Recipe Portion Scaler?
Street-food recipes are usually written for a specific yield — a batch of a dozen dumplings, four servings of pad Thai, a tray of six arepas. This tool takes that original serving count, your target serving count, and the ingredient list, and multiplies every quantity by the same ratio so the whole recipe scales together instead of you doing the arithmetic ingredient by ingredient.
It works for scaling up to feed a crowd or scaling down to cook for one or two, and it’s especially handy for the kind of shareable street-food snacks — dumplings, spring rolls, skewers — where batch size changes the whole shopping list.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How does the recipe portion scaler work?
It divides your target servings by your original servings to get a single scale factor, then multiplies every ingredient's quantity by that factor. Doubling a 4-serving recipe to 8 servings gives a factor of 2, so 2 cups of rice flour becomes 4 cups, 1 tablespoon of fish sauce becomes 2 tablespoons, and so on — every ingredient moves together.
Does it convert units, like cups to grams?
No — it scales quantities, not units. If you enter 2 cups of flour, a 1.5x scale gives you 3 cups of flour, not a weight conversion. If you also want to convert between grams, cups, millilitres, or ounces, use the Cooking Measurement Converter alongside this tool.
Should chili, salt, and spices scale exactly like everything else?
Mathematically yes, but in practice, no — strong flavorings often don't need to scale 1:1. Doubling a recipe rarely means you should double the chili heat or salt; many cooks scale seasonings by a smaller factor than the rest of the recipe and adjust to taste at the end. Treat the scaled seasoning numbers as a starting point, not a rule.
What if I'm scaling down to an odd number, like 1 or 3 servings?
The math works the same in either direction — a factor below 1 shrinks every ingredient proportionally. The results can come out as awkward fractions (0.33 cups, for instance); round to the nearest practical kitchen measurement when that happens, especially for small quantities like a pinch of salt.