Say you buy 50 gallons of oil for $200, but a recipe only calls for one cup. RecipePricing automatically calculates the cost of that single cup from the price you paid for the full 50 gallons — so you always know exactly what each recipe costs to make.

But what if a recipe calls for 10 grams of oil? That’s a weight, while you bought the oil by volume. No problem — just pick your ingredient from our predefined list of thousands of items, and the weight-to-volume conversion is already done for you, based on official USDA data. Add ingredients to your recipes in any unit of measure you like, and you will always get an accurate cost.

And what about ingredients you make yourself? Suppose your cake includes your own chocolate cream. Simply create the cream as a recipe of its own — with its cocoa, oil, sugar and so on — and then convert that recipe into an ingredient. From that moment you can add the cream to any recipe, in any unit of measure, and get its exact cost. The ingredient stays linked to its recipe, so whenever you change the recipe, your costs stay up to date.