About
Little Kitchen helps you bake exactly the amount you need without recalculating the recipe yourself. Here is what to know before you start.
Why weigh in grams
A cup of flour can weigh anywhere from 110 to 150 grams depending on how you scoop it. In baking, a difference like that is enough to make a cake dry, tough or flat. That is why every recipe here is stored in grams, and a kitchen scale is the best tool you can invest in.
Scaling by quantity
Say a cookie recipe makes sixty cookies, but you only want five. Choose the quantity mode and enter 5. Every ingredient is multiplied by five sixtieths, and the amounts in each step change too.
Scaling by ingredients on hand
Only have 300 grams of flour and 3 eggs left? Choose the ingredients-on-hand mode and enter both. Little Kitchen will find which ingredient runs out first, called the limiting ingredient, and work out all the others in the same proportion.
Scaling by pan size
The recipe uses a 20 cm round pan but you have a 16 cm one? A 16 cm pan has only about 64% of the area of a 20 cm pan, so the ingredients are reduced to match and the cake layer keeps the same thickness.
What does not scale
A pinch of salt, oil for greasing the pan and leaves for wrapping stay the same. Baking times and temperatures do not scale either; Little Kitchen will suggest when to check your bake earlier or later. For eggs, you will see both the weight in grams and an approximate egg count so you can weigh them accurately.
Sharing and printing
The amounts you choose are saved right in the page link, so you can send the link to family or print the page, and the recipe will show exactly the amounts you adjusted.
Information
- Version
- 1.0
- Contact
- tony@11520.world
