Cooking
Free tools and guides to help you cook and bake with more confidence, precision, and creativity.
Free Tools
Unit Converter
Convert cups to grams, ml to tablespoons, ounces to grams and more. Ingredient-aware for accurate baking.
Use tool →Calorie & Macro Calculator
Calculate your daily calorie needs and ideal macro split for weight loss, maintenance, or muscle gain.
Use tool →Cooking Time by Weight
Find exact roasting times for chicken, beef, pork, lamb, turkey and fish — with safe internal temperature targets.
Use tool →Baking Substitutions Guide
Out of eggs, butter or flour? Find tested substitutions for every common baking ingredient.
Use tool →Save your favourite recipes and plan meals around your macros — free with RecipeOK
Get started free →Practical Resources for Every Home Cook
Whether you are scaling a baking recipe, learning to sear a steak, calculating how long to roast a chicken, or trying to hit a calorie target, having the right tool or guide to hand saves time and prevents mistakes. RecipeOK's free cooking resources are designed to answer the questions home cooks encounter most — no sign-up required, no ads, just fast and accurate answers.
Our beginner cooking techniques guide covers the essential skills that underpin almost every recipe: knife work, heat control, seasoning, and building flavour from scratch. The unit converter goes beyond simple volume conversion — it accounts for ingredient density, so converting a cup of flour to grams gives you the real weight. The calorie and macro calculator uses the clinically validated Mifflin-St Jeor equation to personalise your daily energy target.
The cooking time calculator covers 11 cuts of meat and fish, adjusting for weight, cooking method, and doneness — and always shows safe internal temperature targets alongside time estimates. The baking substitutions guide covers more than 50 tested swaps for eggs, dairy, flour, sugar, and leavening agents.