Questions tagged [recipe-scaling]

Use this tag when you have a recipe that use a specific amount of ingredients but you need to make much more or just a little of the original recipe. Scaling normally needs technique.

There are an infinite number of recipes that you can scale up or down.

In order to scale up or down the amount of each item in a recipe, you won't be able just to increase or decrease each ingredient to make more or less of the recipe. In those cases, there are some techniques that you will have to apply too!

Here are a few links to explain how scaling properly is important:

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Are there any recipe ingredients that scale in a non-uniform manner?

A question I asked on the stats Q/A has a comment that reads, [...] to make 8 times the amount of food a recipe describes you don't just octuple all the ingredients mentioned (eg. salt)". Some recipes, of course, don't scale well if you try to…
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Mixing mushroom-potato-carrot soup and warming later (Should I?)

I've got what is probably a pretty basic question - but this is the first thing I've tried to prepare in my life that didn't involve boiling noodles and adding cheese afterwords. I'm looking at baking chicken breast in foil packets with cream of…
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How should we divide the recipe ingredient?

I followed this pasta recipe some days ago. I wasn't aware of the amount of people it was intended to serve, which is 6. I followed it completely but I am serving 3 people. If I were to reduce the quantity of the ingredients by half, should I treat…
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Can all recipe ingredient quantities be halved or doubled without altering taste?

I was wondering if keeping the same proportion of ingredients in a recipe maintains the taste of the food as well. Or are there cases where this simple proportional math doesn't work?
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brunch for sixty people - how to estimate amounts?

We will be hosting a buffet brunch in our home for about 60 people, serving bagels, lox, tuna salad, egg salad, kugel, and farmer's salad. How do I determine many eggs I need for the egg salad, and how much tuna?