Recipes often are either too large or too small for the group I'm feeding that evening, and I'm not always interested in having leftovers of a dish.  Who needs potato salad that serves an army when all you've got is a small regiment? Halving a recipe is easy, but what if you need a 3/5 or a 1/6 recipe?  Calculating such details while trying to concentrate and follow along the subsequent steps can be a pain at a minimum; it can also leave you open to mistakes.  The number of times I have reduced a recipe but neglected to reduce one or two ingredients (like salt or fish sauce) that completely spoil the pot are too many to count.

My challenge is to create a recipe recalibrator to create any fraction of the original recipe I desire, or an easy multiplier where necessary.

PLEDGES

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