Calculators
Free, honest math for home cooks, growers, and small food businesses. Scale recipes, price a CSA share, estimate yield, plan macros — 113 tools, no signup required.
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Food & Cooking
Everyday kitchen math — scale recipes, convert units, plan meals, nail ferments.
Recipe Scaler
Scale any recipe up or down — halve it, double it, or fit a specific serving count with the original yield intact.
Kitchen Unit Converter
Convert between grams, ounces, cups, and tablespoons — with ingredient density for accurate volume-to-weight swaps.
Oven Temperature Converter
Convert between Fahrenheit, Celsius, and UK Gas Marks — with a "best for" hint for every temperature.
Baking Substitutions
Out of eggs, butter, or milk? Get scaled substitute amounts and notes on how each swap changes your bake.
Pan Size Conversion
Swap pans without wrecking a recipe — get the ingredient multiplier and bake-time adjustment between any two pan sizes.
Yeast Converter
Convert between active dry, instant, and fresh yeast — with baker’s percentage when you give flour weight.
Sourdough Starter Feeding
Compute flour, water, and ripe time for any starter feed ratio and target hydration.
Brining Calculator
Salt and water amounts for wet or dry brining, plus recommended brine times by protein.
Pickling Brine Calculator
Vinegar, water, salt, and sugar amounts for quick fridge pickles or shelf-stable canning — with pH safety check.
Meal Prep Cost
Add up ingredient costs for a batch of prepped meals — see cost per meal, per person, and a weekly projection.
Roast Time by Weight
Oven roast times by cut, weight, and doneness — with USDA safe internal temps and rest times.
Smoking Time by Cut
Low-and-slow smoke times by cut and pit temperature — with stall and wrap recommendations.
Safe Meat Thawing
Thaw time by method (fridge, cold water, microwave) with USDA food-safety windows.
Butter Yield from Cream
How much butter (and buttermilk) a given cream volume produces, with optional salt math.
Cheese Yield from Milk
Expected cheese weight by milk type and cheese style — fresh, semi-hard, aged.
Bone Broth Ratio
Bones, water, vinegar, and simmer time for a target yield of beef, chicken, or pork broth.
Jam Pectin Ratio
Sugar, pectin, and lemon juice ratios for low-sugar to traditional jam — by fruit pectin level.
Fermentation Time
How long to wait for kraut, kimchi, hot sauce, or kombucha — adjusted for your room temperature.
Dough Hydration
Baker percentage math for flour, water, salt, and levain — get the ratios right every bake.
Marinade Ratio
Oil, acid, salt, and sugar amounts per pound of meat — with marinade time by protein type.
Cure Salt Calculator
Prague Powder #1 and #2 amounts for bacon, ham, and charcuterie — with USDA nitrite ppm guardrails.
Turkey Size per Guest
Pounds of turkey per guest with leftovers — plus thaw time and fresh-vs-frozen decision guide.
Ham Size per Guest
Spiral, boneless, and fresh ham sizing with cooking time and carving yield.
Candy Temperature Stages
Sugar-cook stages from thread to hard crack — with altitude adjustment.
Canning Processing Time
USDA boiling-water-bath times by recipe, jar size, and altitude — with safety guardrails for low-acid foods.
Farm & Producer
Production, pricing, and planning math for growers, bakers, and makers.
CSA Share Pricing
Set a fair, profitable CSA price — enter weeks, members, and per-share production cost; get the share price that covers overhead and margin.
Farm Yield Estimator
Estimate harvest from bed area, plant spacing, and average yield per plant — with risk buffer.
Seed Starting Calendar
Work back from your last frost date to the right day to sow indoors, transplant, and direct-seed.
Egg Production Forecast
Project weekly, monthly, and annual egg output from flock size, breed lay rate, and seasonal drop-off.
Honey Yield Estimator
Estimate pounds of harvestable honey from hive count, local nectar flow, and colony strength.
Planting Density
How many plants fit a row or bed? Enter spacing and area; get plant count and seed order quantity.
Farmers Market Stall ROI
Is this Saturday market worth the booth fee? Enter expected sales, booth cost, and travel; see gross, net, and break-even.
Cost Per Serving
Break a recipe or product cost into per-serving and per-unit pricing — foundation for profitable menu pricing.
Cattle Feed Conversion
Days to finish, feed pounds, and cost per gained pound for grass, mixed, or grain finishing.
Pork Feed Conversion
Feed pounds and cost from weaner to finish weight — conventional and heritage pasture systems.
Chicken Feed Conversion
Broiler finish math and layer feed-per-dozen — with break-even egg pricing.
Lamb Feed Conversion
Days to market and feed cost for grass, mixed, and grain-finished lamb.
Pasture Stocking Rate
Animal units per acre — see whether your forage quality and head count balance.
Animal Water Needs
Daily, weekly, and monthly water by species, climate, and lactation state.
Hay for Winter
Bales and storage space needed to feed your herd through winter.
Grazing Days
How long a pasture lasts — forage pounds × allowable utilization ÷ herd demand.
Manure Output
Manure tons per year by species with NPK nutrient value and compost volume.
Dairy Milk Yield
Daily and annual milk, cheese, and butter potential by species and breed.
Chicken Coop Size
Square feet per bird, nest boxes, and roost length for standard, bantam, or heavy-breed flocks.
Greenhouse Heating BTU
Heat load by glazing type, floor area, and temp delta — plus propane gallons per month.
Fence Cost Estimator
Posts, materials, and labor by fence type — woven wire, barbed, electric, board, high-tensile.
Irrigation Needs
Gallons per plant per day by crop, climate, and system efficiency — with weekly water cost.
Soil Amendment
Lime and compost for pH correction and organic matter — plus P-K feeding recommendations.
Raised Bed Soil
Cubic yards and bags needed for a raised bed box — with mix-recipe breakdowns.
Mulch Coverage
Cubic yards, bags, and cost for mulching a garden or landscape at your chosen depth.
Tractor Fuel Cost
Diesel gallons per hour, per day, per year by HP and load — plus cost per acre.
Shop & Stock
Bulk-buying math for real life — hanging vs take-home weight, freezer fit, meat per person.
Live → Hanging Weight
What percentage of a live animal becomes hanging weight — by species. Know what you're really paying for.
Hanging → Take-Home Weight
From hanging carcass to packaged meat in your freezer — bone-in vs boneless yield by species.
Half or Quarter Beef
Buying a share of beef? See the weight you'll take home and the cut-category breakdown.
Whole Animal True Cost
The $/lb math buyers get wrong — turn any live/hanging/take-home quote into out-the-door cost and compare to grocery retail.
Freezer Capacity
How much meat fits in 7, 15, 20 cubic feet — sized to half beef, whole pig, whole lamb.
Meat Per Person Per Year
Household planning math — servings, ounces, and species mix into an annual pounds target.
Bulk Meat Savings
Compare a whole-animal purchase to grocery retail — see the real savings and freezer payback.
Beef Cuts Breakdown
What actually comes out of a beef carcass — primal by primal, pound by pound, with the cuts you'll get.
Pork Cuts Breakdown
Every primal from a whole or half pig — chops, bacon, ham, sausage — with curing options.
Jerky Yield
Fresh meat to finished jerky — yield by cut, trim loss, and dryness level.
Dehydration Yield
Fresh to dried weight for fruits, veggies, and herbs — with dehydrator time estimates.
Turkey Thaw Time
Fridge and cold-water thaw times — with a start-by datestamp so the bird is ready when the oven is.
Craft & Design
Maker math for woodworking, sewing, soap, candles, pottery, leather, jewelry, and design.
Fabric Yardage
Yards needed by garment, size, and bolt width — plus an extra allowance for directional prints.
Quilt Binding Yardage
Binding strip count and yardage for a quilt perimeter — with corner miter allowance.
Quilt Backing
Total backing size and panels needed for a quilt top with long-arm or hand-quilting overage.
Knit Gauge → Cast-On
Turn a swatch gauge into the exact cast-on and total row count for any size garment.
Yarn Yardage Estimator
Total yards and skeins for a project by type, size, and yarn weight — with a buffer recommendation.
Knit Shaping Rate
Evenly space increases or decreases across a sleeve, hem, or shoulder — "inc 1 every X rows".
Seam Allowance Conversion
Convert between 5/8, 3/8, 1/2 inch, and 1 cm seam allowances — with fabric offset per edge.
Batting Cut Size
Batting dimensions for a quilt top with long-arm overage — plus standard sizing match.
Board Feet
Convert lumber dimensions to board feet and project cost — the standard unit for buying rough lumber.
Miter Angle for Polygons
Saw-blade angle for cutting a regular polygon — picture frames, hexagons, octagons, pipe sections.
Plywood Sheet Layout
Maximize pieces per 4x8 or 5x5 sheet — best orientation, kerf allowance, and waste percentage.
Joist Spacing & Count
Joist count for a deck or floor at 12, 16, 19.2, or 24 in on center — plus decking board count.
Wood Project Cost
Add lumber, hardware, finish, and labor into a true project cost — and cost per piece if you are making multiples.
Stair Stringer Rise/Run
IRC-safe riser height, tread depth, and stringer length from a total rise.
Kerf Allowance
How much material a saw blade eats across multiple cuts — ripping, crosscuts, bandsaw, laser.
Wood Drying Time
Air-drying months from freshly cut to target moisture content by species and thickness.
Soap Lye Calculator
Cold-process NaOH and water amounts for your oil blend — with superfat % for a balanced or extra-moisturizing bar.
Superfat Percentage
What 2%, 5%, or 10% superfat actually does to your soap — cleanse vs moisture tradeoff.
Candle Wax Weight
Wax pounds and fragrance oil for a batch of container candles — soy, paraffin, coconut, beeswax.
Fragrance Oil %
Fragrance oil load by scent strength and wax type — with max-safe warnings.
Candle Wick Size
Wick recommendation (CD, ECO, LX series) by container diameter and wax type.
Clay Shrinkage
Wet to bisque to glaze-fired size — with reverse calc to hit a target finished dimension.
Kiln Load
Pieces per shelf and total kiln capacity by firing type — bisque vs glaze touch rules.
Leather Weight → Thickness
Ounces per square foot to millimeters and inches — plus what projects each weight suits.
Resin Project Cost
Epoxy resin volume, Part A/B split, and total cost — with deep-pour exotherm warning for 1:1 mixes over 2 inches.
Wastage Buffer Reference
Industry-standard waste percentages for 20 common maker materials — feed into the True Product COGS calc for honest pricing.
Packaging Cost Per Unit
Sum the real packaging stack — box, label, stickers, tissue, mailer, void fill, tape, ship label — into a single per-unit cost.
Wire Gauge Converter
Convert between AWG, millimeters, and inches — with typical jewelry-making use cases per gauge.
Beads Per Length
Beads needed for a necklace or bracelet — account for clasp, spacer beads, and standard 16 in strand counts.
Ring Size Converter
Convert between US, UK, EU, and measured diameter or circumference — with fit advice.
Paint Coverage
Gallons of paint and primer for a surface area — latex, chalk, stain, varnish, with real $/gallon cost.
Tile Quantity
Tiles + grout for a floor or wall — with pattern-specific waste (straight 10% to herringbone 20%).
Aspect Ratio
Width, height, and ratio math for print, photo, video, and social — 1:1 to 21:9 presets plus custom.
Business & Pricing
Pricing, margin, and break-even math for small food businesses.
Cost-Plus Pricing
Set a retail price from your cost and target margin — with a sanity check against competitor pricing.
Wholesale Markup
Price wholesale and retail in lockstep — keystone, MAP-friendly, and key-two markups with gross profit checks.
Break-Even Analysis
Fixed costs, variable cost per unit, and price — see the break-even unit count and revenue.
Profit Margin
Gross margin, net margin, and markup — convert between them cleanly so you do not mix up 40% margin and 40% markup.
Shipping Cost Estimator
Zone-based parcel estimates — weight, box size, and destination into a shipping cost and price-to-customer.
Payroll True Cost
Total cost to employ someone — wages + FICA + FUTA + state UI + workers comp + benefits. The real number, not the paycheck number.
Equipment Depreciation
Straight-line depreciation schedule by equipment type — for tax planning and product pricing.
Event Food Quantity
Pounds of main, sides, drinks, and supplies for any guest count and event style — BBQ to plated dinner.
True Product COGS (No-BS)
The real cost to make and sell one unit — materials with wastage, packaging, labor with burden, overhead, payment + platform fees, shipping absorbed, income + self-employment taxes. All in.
Average Shipping Cost
Weighted average shipping across your real zones and services — with fair flat-rate suggestion and per-order profit/loss.
Nutrition
Daily energy, macros, and hydration for healthy eating plans.
BMR & TDEE
Basal metabolic rate and total daily energy expenditure using the Mifflin-St Jeor equation + activity multiplier.
Macros Split
Split daily calories into protein, carbs, and fat grams for cutting, maintaining, or bulking.
Protein Needs
Daily protein target by bodyweight, activity, and goal — with breakpoints from sedentary to athletic.
Daily Hydration
Water target by bodyweight, activity level, and climate — in ounces, cups, and liters.
Sustainability
Footprint, waste, and composting math for greener kitchens.
Food Miles
Compare the transport-mile footprint of buying local vs conventional grocery — with CO2e estimates.
Compost C:N Ratio
Balance greens and browns for a hot pile — browns-to-greens by volume for the 25:1 to 30:1 sweet spot.
Household Food Waste
How much do you throw away? Enter weekly discard; see annual cost, emissions, and redirect ideas.