Recipe Scaling Using Ratios and Proportions to adjust recipe size.
Mar 29, 2015
Recipe ScalingUsing Ratios and Proportions to adjust recipe size.
Recipe Scaling is all about using your favorite recipe:
For 200 rather than the 4 it was written for:
And still having it turn out!
Like a Champ!
You Already Know How to do this!•How would doubling a recipe be done? •How would that look on paper?•Multiply all of the ingredients by 2.
•Or if a recipe yielded 4 portions and you needed it for 8 portions: 8/4 = 2
•Here the recipe is increasing in size so you need to multiply it by a number bigger than 1.
Let’s try it a different direction:•How about halving a recipe?•And how would this look on paper?•Divide ingredients by 2, or multiply by 0.5.
• If the recipe yields 6 portions and you need 3: 3/6 = ½ or 0.5
•Here the recipe is decreasing in size so you need to multiply it by a number smaller than 1.
•You have just used ratios
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2
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Arrive at a ratio:•Now that you understand what a
proportion is let’s arrive at a ratio that will be easier to work with in the kitchen:
•If you solve, or reduce the fraction:
•Then you can multiply this result by your old recipe’s ingredients’ quantities
•To arrive at the new recipe’s ingredients’ quantities.
•Example: 4/2 = 2 = doubling•Or: 3/6 = 0.5 (1/2) = halving
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NewYield
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NewYield
5.44
18
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NewYield
Let’s work a recipe:•Recipe yields 4 portions and we want 10:• New Yield/Old Yield =•10/4 = •2.5 = Conversion Factor = CF
5.24
10
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NewYield
•Ingredients: Old Qty: CF: New Qty:
•Flour 2 cups x 2.5 = ______•Water 8 floz. x 2.5 = ______•Egg 2 each x 2.5 = ______•Baking Powder 1 tsp. x 2.5 = ______•Cinnamon 2 tsp. x 2.5 = ______
It turned out!
Bon Appétit