Scale It. Cost It. Cook It.
Professional kitchen math should not require an expensive monthly subscription.
The Chef David Recipe Converter helps chefs, restaurant owners, culinary students, caterers, and serious home cooks scale recipes, convert measurements, calculate ingredient costs, and establish profitable selling prices.
What the Recipe Converter Does
• Scales complete recipes to a new production quantity
• Converts measurements between U.S. and metric units
• Calculates ingredient costs using purchase-pack prices
• Accounts for trimming, cleaning, and preparation yield
• Calculates total batch cost
• Calculates cost per portion
• Suggests a selling price based on your target food-cost percentage
• Saves recipes on your device
• Creates portable recipe backups for safekeeping or transfer to another device
• Produces a printable kitchen production sheet
No Subscription. No Advertising. No Login.
Your recipes remain stored in your browser on your device. Chef David does not collect, view, or sell your recipes.
A COMPANION TOOL FROM CHEF DAVID ARNOLD
This converter draws on 40+ years of foodservice and hospitality experience across restaurants, production kitchens, catering operations, hotels, institutional foodservice, and international culinary projects.
It is provided as a complimentary resource for readers of Chef David Arnold’s hospitality and culinary publications.
USE IT LIKE AN APP
The Recipe Converter can be added to the Home Screen of most iPhone and Android devices. Once installed, it opens from its own Chef David icon just like a regular app.
No app-store subscription is required.
From a scaled recipe to a repeatable standard
Check the converted quantities against preparation yields and the way your kitchen works, then document the method, portion, and production checks. The Free Restaurant Operations Resource Library provides practical operating resources. The Foodservice Operations System explores consistent execution, while David’s training and operational systems consulting can support training and standardization.