Your recipes in metric or US units, whichever you cook with

Pancakes from an American food blog, a gratin copied out of an old family notebook, a cheesecake spotted on TikTok: your recipes come from everywhere, and each one arrives with its own units. You cook with yours. Whether your kitchen runs on millilitres and °C or on cups and °F, Cookfolio shows the quantities and oven temperatures of every recipe in the units you know. The calculator stays in the drawer: you read, you pour, you bake.

One recipe, two ways to read it

Take a mac and cheese from an American food blog. If you cook in metric, with a measuring jug and kitchen scales, here is what Cookfolio shows you.

In the recipe	What you read
1 cup of milk	240 ml
½ cup of cream	120 ml
1 stick of butter	113 g
8 oz of cheddar	227 g
1 lb of macaroni	454 g
Oven at 350 °F	Oven at 180 °C

And the other way round? If you cook with American measuring cups and spoons, a potato gratin from a French blog reads like this:

In the recipe	What you read
500 g of potatoes	1.1 lb
200 ml of cream	¾ cup + 1 ½ tbsp
150 g of Gruyère	5.3 oz
200 g of ham	7.1 oz
Oven at 180 °C	Oven at 350 °F

Each kitchen reads the recipe on its own terms, with no mental arithmetic halfway through the sauce.

The oven follows too

Oven temperatures written in °C or °F in the steps show in your units, on the recipe page and in cooking mode. “Bake for 25 minutes at 350 °F” reads “Bake for 25 minutes at 180 °C” if you cook in metric, and a French recipe at 180 °C reads 350 °F in a US kitchen.

The oven settings of old French notebooks are understood as well: “thermostat 6” shows as 180 °C or 350 °F, depending on your units. No need to hunt for the conversion chart taped inside a cupboard door, or to guess while the oven heats up.

Wherever you cook

Your units follow you wherever you read a recipe:

• On the recipe page, when you are choosing what to make for dinner.
• In cooking mode, step by step, ingredients and oven included.
• In the shopping list: 1 cup of milk from an American recipe and 250 ml of milk from a British one end up on a single line, with the total in your units.
• On a recipe someone shares with you, when you open it in the app.
• On the web page of a recipe you share: it adapts to the language of the browser that opens it. An American friend reads cups, a friend in Paris reads millilitres.

And when you change the number of servings, the quantities are recalculated, still in your units.

Your choice in a few seconds

1. Open Settings, then Measurement units.
2. Choose Metric or US.

To begin with, Cookfolio takes its cue from your device, so most of the time there is nothing for you to do.

Your choice then follows your account. Set it once on your phone, and it is waiting for you on your tablet and your computer. You can switch whenever you like.

Original units, in one tap

Want to see a recipe exactly as it was written? Whenever Cookfolio has adapted a quantity or a temperature, the Original units pill appears next to the Ingredients heading, on the recipe page and in cooking mode. Tap it to see the author’s units, and tap it again to go back to yours.

It comes in handy when you are following the original video at the same time, or when you are reading the recipe out to someone who cooks with different measures.

One shared cookbook, everyone’s own units

In a household, not everyone cooks with the same tools. With the Family plan, each member sees the shared recipes in the system they picked. The same pancake recipe shows 1 cup of milk for one person and 240 ml for another.

One keeps their measuring cups, another their measuring jug, and the shared shopping list shows up for each of them in their own units. Nobody has to translate the recipe for the rest of the house, and nobody’s preference gets in anyone else’s way.

Cook with the measures you know

Save your recipes wherever they come from, and cook them with your own tools and your own oven. Cookfolio takes care of the units. To double a recipe or halve it without unpleasant surprises, our guide to scaling a recipe for more or fewer servings tells you which ingredients to keep an eye on.