Recipe Yield
Find how much a recipe yields after cooking shrinks or expands.
About Recipe Yield
Dividing the cooked weight by the raw weight gives the yield, and the cooked weight split across servings gives portion size. Planned yields show whether a recipe feeds the promised number of people after moisture loss from cooking.
Formula
Recipe Yield
Yield = cooked / raw x 100; per serving = cooked / servings
- yield
- Cooked weight as a share of the raw weight
Worked example
With the default values below, Recipe Yield returns Yield of 75.0%. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.
Inputs used
- Raw total weightminimum 1 g
- 1,000 g
- Cooked weightminimum 0 g
- 750 g
- Servingsminimum 1
- 4
Results
- Yield
- 75.0%
- Weight per Serving
- 187.5 g
- Loss
- 25.00%
Step by step
- 1Values used
- 2Recipe Yield
- 3Yield= 75.0
- 4Weight per Serving= 187.5 g
- 5Loss= 25.00
Assumptions and limits
- The result is derived only from the 3 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
- In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax, fees or charges or compounding frequency into account.
- Figures are rounded for display to 2 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.
How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is Recipe Yield calculated?
Yield = cooked / raw x 100; per serving = cooked / servings Dividing the cooked weight by the raw weight gives the yield, and the cooked weight split across servings gives portion size.
Why does Recipe Yield matter?
Planned yields show whether a recipe feeds the promised number of people after moisture loss from cooking.
What values do I need to enter?
This calculator takes 3 inputs: Raw total weight, Cooked weight, Servings. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.