Series MI-12 · 72 instruments catalogued
Food
Recipe scaling, nutrition and kitchen measures.
In Service
70 built and verifiedABV Calculator (Alcohol by Volume)
Enter original and final gravity from a hydrometer to calculate alcohol by volume for homebrewed beer, wine, cider or mead using the standard formula.
In service MI-12-002Alcohol Dilution Calculator
Work out how much water to add to bring a spirit down to a target strength, using the same C1V1=C2V2 dilution identity chemists use for any solution.
In service MI-12-003Bacon Curing Calculator
Work out how much sea salt and Cure #1 (pink curing salt) your pork belly needs for dry-cured or wet-brined home bacon, scaled by weight.
In service MI-12-004Baker's Percentage Calculator
Express any ingredient as a percentage of flour weight, the professional bread-baking notation that makes formulas scalable, comparable and easy to adjust.
In service MI-12-005BBQ Grill Size Calculator
Figure out how much grill cooking area and how much meat you need for a cookout, using the standard 72 sq in and 0.5 lb per guest rule of thumb.
In service MI-12-006BBQ Party Calculator
Plan a full backyard BBQ from a single guest count — meat, buns, drinks, and ice, each scaled by standard per-guest catering rules of thumb.
In service MI-12-007Beer Pong Calculator
Work out exactly how much beer to buy and what it'll cost for a beer pong tournament, from your team count down to cost per player.
In service MI-12-008Bread Spreads Calculator
See how many days your butter, peanut butter, jam, or Nutella jar will last based on how thick you spread it and how many slices you eat per day.
In service MI-12-009Brine Calculator
Work out exactly how much salt to dissolve in your water to hit a target brine strength, from a light 3% soak to a strong 10%+ quick brine.
In service MI-12-010Butter Calculator - How Much is a Stick of Butter?
Convert US butter sticks into cups, tablespoons and grams instantly, using the standard US stick measurements printed on every wrapper.
In service MI-12-011Cake Pan Converter
Adapt any round-pan cake recipe to a different pan diameter by scaling the batter to match, using the geometry of how circular area changes.
In service MI-12-012Cake Pricing Calculator
Add up ingredient, labor and overhead costs, apply your target profit margin, and get a sale price for a custom cake using standard cost-plus pricing.
In service MI-12-013Cake Serving Calculator
Find out how many party-style servings a round or rectangular cake yields, based on its size and your chosen serving area per slice.
In service MI-12-014Chilled Drink Calculator
Estimate how long a drink takes to cool from its starting temperature down to your target, based on Newton's Law of Cooling.
In service MI-12-015Chocolate Calculator
See the calories, carbs, sugar, fat, and protein in dark, milk, or white chocolate, scaled to exactly how many grams you're eating.
In service MI-12-016Coffee Calculator
Scale ground coffee and water for however many cups you're brewing, using the classic American drip-coffee ratio of 2 tbsp per 6 fl oz cup.
In service MI-12-017Coffee Footprint Calculator
See the hidden water footprint of your coffee habit — how many liters go into growing, processing, and brewing your daily cups, per day, week, and year.
In service MI-12-018Coffee Kick Calculator
See how much caffeine from your coffee is still active in your system hours after drinking it, based on caffeine's average metabolic half-life.
In service MI-12-019Coffee Ratio Calculator
Enter your coffee dose to get the water amount for a balanced hot brew, based on the roughly 1:17 ratio at the heart of the SCA's Golden Cup guidance.
In service MI-12-020Coffee to Water Ratio Calculator
Get the right water amount for your coffee across five brew methods — drip, pour-over, French press, Moka pot, and espresso — each with its own ratio.
In service MI-12-021Cold Brew Ratio Calculator
Enter your coffee dose and pick concentrate or ready-to-drink style to get the cold water amount for a properly steeped cold brew batch.
In service MI-12-022Cooking Measurement Converter
Convert US tablespoons into teaspoons and millilitres at once, using the exact legal US volume definitions rather than a rounded kitchen estimate.
In service MI-12-023Cups to Pounds Converter
Convert cups to pounds for water, flour, milk, sugar, salt, honey, butter, oil, rice, or oats, using each ingredient's actual density.
In service MI-12-072Cure Salt (Prague Powder #1) Nitrite Calculator
How much Cure #1 (6.25% sodium nitrite) a batch of meat needs at the standard 1 oz per 25 lb rate, plus the separate legal nitrite ceiling to check against.
In service MI-12-024Donut Calculator
See how many calories your donut actually costs, and how many minutes of walking, jogging, or another activity it takes to burn it off.
In service MI-12-025Dry to Cooked Pasta Converter
Find out how much your pasta will weigh once it's cooked, using the standard ~2x weight-gain convention plus the realistic 1.8x-2.6x range.
In service MI-12-026Egg Boiling Calculator
Get boiling times for soft, medium, or hard-boiled eggs from a boiling-water start, adjusted for small, medium, large, or extra-large eggs.
In service MI-12-027Fresh to Dry Herb Conversion Calculator
Convert fresh herb amounts to dried, or check a recipe's dried herb quantity against fresh, using the standard 3-to-1 culinary substitution ratio.
In service MI-12-028Garlic Clove to Powder Converter & More
Enter a number of fresh garlic cloves and get the matching amount of minced, powder, granulated, flakes, chopped, or garlic salt for the same flavor.
In service MI-12-029Grams to Cups Converter
Convert a gram weight into US cups for flour, sugar, butter, milk, honey, oil, rice, oats, salt, or water, using each ingredient's own weight-per-cup figure.
In service MI-12-030Grams to Tablespoons Converter
Convert a small gram weight into US tablespoons for flour, sugar, butter, milk, honey, oil, rice, oats, salt, or water, scaled to that ingredient's own density.
In service MI-12-031Grams to Teaspoons Converter
Convert a small gram weight into US teaspoons for flour, sugar, butter, milk, honey, oil, rice, oats, salt, or water, by ingredient.
In service MI-12-032Ham Cooking Time Calculator
Estimate oven time to reheat a fully cooked ham at 325°F by weight and type — a planning figure only; finish by checking with a thermometer.
In service MI-12-033Healthy Coffee Calculator
Estimate your daily caffeine intake from coffee by servings and brew method, and see it as a percentage of the commonly cited 400mg general adult guideline.
In service MI-12-034How Much Ham per Person Calculator
Enter your guest count and ham type to estimate how many pounds of ham to buy, using standard bone-in and boneless per-person planning rates.
In service MI-12-035How Much Mashed Potatoes Per Person Calculator
Enter your guest count and serving style to estimate how many pounds of raw potatoes to buy for mashed potatoes, plus the approximate cups it yields.
In service MI-12-037ml to Grams Calculator
Convert a milliliter volume into grams for water, milk, honey, or vegetable oil, using each liquid's own density rather than assuming water's 1:1 ratio.
In service MI-12-038Oil to Butter Conversion
Convert between oil and butter amounts for baking substitutions in either direction, using the standard 3/4-cup-oil-per-cup-of-butter ratio.
In service MI-12-039Pancake Recipe Calculator
Enter how many pancakes you want and scale the classic diner-style batter recipe — flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, milk, egg, butter — to fit.
In service MI-12-040Party Drink Calculator
Estimate total drinks needed for a party from guest count, party length, and drinks-per-guest-per-hour, using the standard event-planning rate of thumb.
In service MI-12-041Perfect Ice Cream Calculator
Scale the classic no-egg ice cream base ratio — 2 parts cream, 1 part milk, 3/4 part sugar — to any batch size, from a single pint to a full-size churn.
In service MI-12-042Perfect Pancake Calculator
Predict a pancake's finished diameter from how much batter you pour and your target thickness, modeling the batter as a simple cylinder on the griddle.
In service MI-12-043Perfect Pizza Calculator
Calculate how much dough to ball for a target pizza size using the pizza-making community's Thickness Factor concept, adjustable to your own crust style.
In service MI-12-044Pizza Comparison Calculator (old version)
Enter the price and diameter of two pizzas to find which is the better value per square inch — a bigger pizza is almost always cheaper per bite than it looks.
In service MI-12-045Pizza Party Calculator
Enter your guest count, appetite level, and slices per pizza to get the number of pizzas to order, rounded up so nobody goes hungry.
In service MI-12-046Pizza Size Calculator
Compare two pizza diameters by actual area to see how much more pizza the bigger one gives you — the gap is always larger than the diameters alone suggest.
In service MI-12-047Popcorn Calculator
Enter your guest count and serving size to get how many cups of popped popcorn you need and how many cups of unpopped kernels to start with.
In service MI-12-048Pounds to Cups Converter
Convert a pound weight into US cups for flour, granulated sugar, packed brown sugar, or butter, using each ingredient's standard reference weight per cup.
In service MI-12-049Priming Sugar Calculator
Enter batch size, beer temperature, and target carbonation to get the exact grams of corn sugar (dextrose) needed for bottle conditioning.
In service MI-12-050Quarantine Food Calculator - Coronavirus
Enter household size and days of supply to get how many gallons of water and roughly how many kilocalories of food to stock for an emergency.
In service MI-12-052Rice to Water Ratio Calculator
Enter cups of rice and pick your rice type to get the right amount of water, since white, brown, jasmine and basmati rice each cook best at different ratios.
In service MI-12-071Safe Cooking Temperature Calculator
USDA FSIS's minimum safe internal temperatures for poultry, beef, pork, ham, and eggs, plus the mandatory 3-minute rest required at 145°F.
In service MI-12-053Salad Calories Calculator
Add up the calories in your salad component by component — greens, protein, cheese, dressing, toppings, and croutons — to see your actual plate total.
In service MI-12-054Self-rising Flour Calculator
Enter cups of all-purpose flour to get the baking powder and salt needed to turn it into a self-rising flour substitute, using the standard per-cup ratio.
In service MI-12-055SO2 Wine Calculator
Enter total SO2 and wine pH to find molecular SO2, the fraction of sulfite that actually provides antimicrobial protection in a finished wine.
In service MI-12-056Sourdough Calculator
Enter your starter's current weight and a feeding ratio to get exactly how much flour and water to add, for maintenance feeds or a bigger levain build.
In service MI-12-057Steak Cook Time Calculator
Enter steak thickness and desired doneness to get an estimated per-side and total grill time — a starting point to confirm with a meat thermometer.
In service MI-12-058Sulfur Calculator
Enter wine volume and target free SO2 in ppm to get the grams of potassium metabisulfite (KMS) to add for sulfiting home wine.
In service MI-12-059Taco Bar Calculator
Enter guest count, tacos per person, and meat per taco to get exactly how many tortillas to buy and how many pounds of meat to cook.
In service MI-12-060Tea Brewing Calculator
Pick a tea type and how many cups you're brewing to get a starting water temperature, steep time, and loose-leaf tea amount.
In service MI-12-061Thanksgiving Calculator
Enter your guest count to get turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pie quantities for the whole Thanksgiving table at once.
In service MI-12-062Thanksgiving Calories Calculator
Add up turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, pie, and a roll to see how many calories are actually on your Thanksgiving plate.
In service MI-12-063Turkey Cooking Time Calculator
Enter turkey weight and whether it's stuffed to get an estimated 325°F roasting time — a planning starting point to confirm with a meat thermometer.
In service MI-12-064Turkey Defrost Time Calculator
USDA's cold-water method — about 30 min per pound, water changed every 30 min — turned into a thaw time and water-change count for any turkey weight.
In service MI-12-065Turkey Size Calculator
Enter your guest count and whether you want leftovers to get how many pounds of turkey to buy for Thanksgiving or any holiday dinner.
In service MI-12-066Turkey Thawing Calculator
USDA's refrigerator-thaw rule — about 24 hours per 4-5 lb — turned into a days-to-thaw number for any turkey weight, rounded up to stay safe.
In service MI-12-067Uncooked to Cooked Rice Calculator
Enter uncooked rice amount and rice type to see how many cups of cooked rice you'll end up with — white rice roughly triples, brown roughly doubles.
In service MI-12-068Water Cooling Calculator
Enter hot water volume and temperature, cold water temperature, and your target temperature to get exactly how much cold water to add.
In service MI-12-069Wedding Alcohol Calculator
Enter guest count, reception length, and drink rate to get total drinks needed, plus wine, beer, and liquor bottle equivalents for stocking the bar.
In service MI-12-070Yeast Converter
Enter an amount of fresh, active dry, or instant yeast to convert it to the other two types, using a common home-baking ratio.
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- MI-12-036 Ideal Egg Boiling Calculator
- MI-12-051 Quiz: Pizza Party Calculator