What it knows about a kitchen
Cups and spoons land on their markings
A scaled cup or spoon is rounded to the nearest marking a measuring set has: a quarter, a third, a half, two thirds, three quarters. Grams and millilitres are rounded to whole ones.
Things that only come whole round up
Eggs, tortillas, garlic cloves, sheets and slices go up to the next whole one, because the recipe needs part of another and you have to open it anyway. Half an onion stays half an onion.
Metric weighs, US measures
Switch to metric and a cup of flour becomes grams, the way a metric kitchen measures flour, while a cup of milk becomes millilitres. Switch to US and grams become ounces and pounds. The weight of a cup is a typical figure: a packed cup weighs more than a scooped one.
It scales amounts, and only amounts
Cooking times and tin sizes do not scale with the ingredients. Those are yours to judge.
Questions
- How do I halve a recipe with 3 eggs?
- The scaler gives 2, because an egg only comes whole. For a recipe that is sensitive to it, beat 3 eggs and use half.
- Can it convert cups to grams?
- Yes, for ingredients it knows a typical weight for: flours, sugars, rice, oats, butter, cheeses, common liquids and spices. An ingredient it does not know is given in millilitres.
- Does it convert oven temperatures?
- No. It reads ingredient lines only. Panwich itself converts the temperatures in the steps of a recipe you save.
- What if a line has no amount?
- It is kept as it is. "A pinch of salt" is still a pinch of salt at any size.
- Is what I paste kept anywhere?
- No. The tool works in your browser. What you paste is not sent to Panwich or to anyone else.