Scale a recipe up or down and adjust pan size and cooking time.
Ingredients scale linearly but cooking time does not, because heat must travel through depth rather than volume. Keeping the depth constant by using a wider pan preserves the original timing. Salt, spices and leavening often need less than linear scaling, which is why large scale-ups taste over-seasoned when scaled purely by factor.
Recipe Scaler
Scale factor = target ÷ original servings; time scales roughly with the cube root
Scale factor = target ÷ original servings; time scales roughly with the cube root Ingredients scale linearly but cooking time does not, because heat must travel through depth rather than volume. Keeping the depth constant by using a wider pan preserves the original timing.
Salt, spices and leavening often need less than linear scaling, which is why large scale-ups taste over-seasoned when scaled purely by factor.
This calculator takes 4 inputs: Original servings, Target servings, Ingredient amount to convert, Original cooking time. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.