Tasty Recipes allows you and your readers to scale your recipes up—the scaling is done automatically by our super-smart scaling algorithm, so there’s no extra work needed on your end to make the recipes scale appropriately.
That said, we know that there are tons of ways to write out different ingredients, so you may find that some ingredients don’t scale as expected. If you run into this, you can resolve the issue by making small tweaks to the ingredient!
If you’re pasting your ingredients in from another document, the Recipe Builder splits each line into its own ingredient field automatically. You can also use the Bulk Edit option to paste or rewrite your whole ingredient list at once instead of editing one field at a time.
Either way, each ingredient still needs to live on its own line for the scaling algorithm to read it correctly, so the patterns below apply regardless of which method you use.
Below are a few examples of patterns to look out for:
Instead of: fresh herbs to taste (I used a whole sprig of rosemary, thyme, and a bay leaf)
Use: fresh herbs to taste (I used 1 sprig of rosemary, thyme, and a bay leaf)
Instead of: pinch of salt, pinch of cinnamon
Use: a pinch of salt, a pinch of cinnamon – separated into their own lines
Instead of: salt to taste
Use: 1 teaspoon salt, to taste
Instead of: (2) 24 ounce jars Italian tomato sauce
Use: 2 24-ounce jars Italian tomato sauce
Instead of: 1 cup (8 oz) water
Use: 1 cup water (8 oz)
Adding or Editing Ingredients in Bulk
You can add ingredients in bulk in two ways.
Paste your full ingredient list directly into the ingredient field — the placeholder text “Enter ingredient name or paste the full list to bulk add” will split it into separate ingredient lines automatically.
Or click Bulk Edit (in the top right of the Ingredients section) to open your whole list in one editable text box, make changes, and save them back to the recipe card all at once.
