Scaling
Quick buttons
Every recipe with ingredients shows “Convert” with the buttons ¼×, ½×, 1½×, 2×, 3×, 4×, 5× and 10×. One tap and all quantities are converted, in every part of the recipe.
Back to the original
“Original” shows the original quantities again.
Another factor or yield
Need 2.5×, or exactly 3.5 litres? Or do you have 3 kg of one ingredient left? Choose ⋯ “More scaling options”. See More scaling options.
The original never changes
Scaling only changes what you see on screen. The saved recipe stays exactly as it was, for your team too.
Printing scaled
Print a scaled recipe and you print the scaled quantities. See Printing a recipe.
Without an account too
Anyone who opens a shared recipe can scale it, even without an account.
Tasting is still needed
Not everything scales one to one. What to watch out for is in Scaling without mistakes.
More scaling: factor, yield, I have
Where
Open the recipe, choose ⋯ and “More scaling options”. You pick one of three ways. Filling in one field clears the others.
Factor
Enter your own number, for example 2.5 or 0.75. Every ingredient is multiplied by that number.
Yield
Enter the amount you need. This works when the recipe has a yield. If the recipe makes 1 litre and you need 3.5 litres, enter 3.5.
I have
Have 3.2 kg left of one ingredient, such as a cut of meat you bought or leftover stock? Choose the ingredient and enter how much you have. Savour works out the rest of the recipe around it.
A worked example
You need a recipe for 8 covers for 120 covers: the factor is 120 divided by 8, so 15. With a yield of “8 covers” you simply enter 120.
Units and rounding
A practical size
Savour converts within the same kind of unit to a practical size: 0.25 kg becomes 250 g and 24 tbsp becomes 1 ½ cup.
Rounding
Spoons and cups get clean fractions, such as ½, ⅓ and ¾. Grams and millilitres become whole numbers.
Which units
Weight: mg, g, kg, oz and lb. Volume: ml, cl, dl, l, tsp, tbsp and cup, plus the Dutch tl and el. Savour does not convert between weight and volume, because that depends on the product.
What stays
Pieces, sprigs and cloves are scaled but not converted. “To taste”, “pinch” and “dash” stay as they are.
How to write it
How to write quantities so Savour recognises them is in Ingredients and quantities.
Cook mode
Starting cook mode
Choose “Cooking mode” at the top of a recipe. You see only the recipe, in large text, without the menu.
Screen on
In cook mode Savour tries to keep your screen on so you don’t have to keep touching it. Whether that works depends on your phone and browser.
Ticking off
Tick off ingredients you have weighed and steps that are done. After an interruption you see exactly where you were. You can tick off ingredients outside cook mode too.
Cooking scaled
Scale the recipe first with the quick buttons and then start cook mode: you cook with the scaled quantities.
On the tablet at the pass
Put Savour on a tablet as an app and use cook mode during mise en place. Recipes you have opened also work without internet.
Working without internet
How it works
Savour keeps recipes you have opened on your device. When the connection drops, Savour opens your library from that device.
Making sure it works
Log in once with “Stay signed in” ticked and open the recipes you need in the kitchen. Preferably put Savour on your home screen as an app.
What works without internet
Reading, searching your library, scaling and cook mode work as normal.
What needs internet
Saving, editing, importing and sharing work again as soon as you have a connection.
Read more
Why this matters in a kitchen: Recipes without wifi.