Find what you can cook from what you have
Start with ingredients already available and rank existing published RecipeWanted recipes by transparent ingredient coverage before buying extra food or inventing a new dish.
RecipeWanted Resources
Calculators, planners, working aids & practical buying guidance
Cooking Tools & Resources for real kitchen decisions.
Convert measurements, scale a recipe, build an allergen or storage record, plan the week, explore food-and-wine pairings, or work out which kitchen equipment is genuinely useful before buying it.
17 live Resource routesBrowser-local working dataTrusted source linksCommercial links clearly labelled
Find the right tool
Start with what you need to get done
Choose a specific kitchen task and RecipeWanted will point to the existing tool built for that job. This finder is deterministic, runs in the browser and does not send the selection anywhere.
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My Resources on this device
Come back to the tools you actually use
Pin a useful Resource or save working data in one of the 12 tools that currently support browser-local drafts. On later visits, this section gives you a direct route back without creating an account or a RecipeWanted server profile.
This browser has not been checked yet.Choose Check this device below when you want My Resources to look for pins and the 12 known saved-draft keys. Saved draft payloads are not parsed or displayed by this hub.
Use My Resources when you want to return quickly.
Pin a tool from its Quick Start area, or save working data with an existing Save on This Device control. When you return to this hub, choose Check this device to reveal those browser-local shortcuts.
Browser-local continuity: My Resources does not access its pin/saved-work keys until you choose Check this device on the hub or Pin this tool on a tool page. Pinning stores only selected Resource route keys. Saved drafts remain under the existing tool-specific save/delete controls. No automatic recent-history log, last-used timestamp, email reminder, notification, cross-device sync or server-side visitor profile is created by V13.8. Site-level privacy/CMP rules remain the wider authority for storage/access technologies.
How the live tools work together
Start with the kitchen decision, then move to the next useful step
RecipeWanted Resources is being built as one connected cooking workflow, not a collection of unrelated calculators. The links below include only tools that are live now; future tools stay out of the visitor interface until their own release has been reviewed and proved.
Replace an ingredient by function
When a chosen recipe is missing or unsuitable on one ingredient, compare context-specific starting substitutes and trade-offs before changing the recipe.
Measure & adapt the recipe
Convert the measurement system or change the tested yield before cooking.
Build bread or pizza dough by formula
Use baker’s percentages to work from total flour, final dough mass, or exact pizza-ball/loaf targets while keeping preferment flour and water inside the total formula.
Understand what the recipe costs
Use prices you actually pay to separate ingredient usage cost from whole-pack cash outlay and calculate cost per serving or batch unit.
Plan the week and manage what you already have
Give meals, leftovers, freezer food and use-first items a deliberate place.
Plan party or catering quantities
When cooking for a group, turn real attendance plus visible participation, portion, known-yield, contingency and package assumptions into per-item quantities or exact recipe scale factors before buying or scheduling.
Combine the chosen recipes into one shopping list
After recipes and quantities are chosen, consolidate compatible ingredient requirements, remove explicit pantry items and keep unresolved unit conflicts visible before purchasing.
Schedule cooking to the actual service time
Once recipes, quantities and durations are known, build a dependency-aware start/finish timeline, expose the critical path, and prevent explicitly hands-on work from overlapping when using the one-cook guard.
Keep higher-consequence records explicit
Use structured records where allergen or storage uncertainty must stay visible instead of being guessed.
Choose equipment around the real job
Prioritise kitchen or baking equipment only after identifying the workload, constraint or consistency problem.
Finish the meal decision
When useful, compare a deterministic wine-style direction for the finished dish.
Research food composition with source context
When the question is composition rather than recipe suitability, search official food-data records, compare reported values on the same reference basis and keep provider/data-type provenance visible.
Plan around sourced food and cultural calendar dates
Explore official food-system observances and carefully scoped food-culture dates across six inhabited continents, then verify the source/scope before turning a date into recipes, education, Food News or an event plan.
Architecture rule: a planned Resource never appears here until it has a real managed route, complete method/safety/SEO/frontend contracts, human review and current-version Browser Proof. No placeholder or “coming soon” link is emitted.
Live Resources
Interactive calculators & working tools
Use these when you need a calculation, structured working record or explainable pairing result directly in the browser.
Interactive Tool
Allergy Matrix Generator
Build, review, save locally, print and export a structured UK 14-allergen matrix for dishes or menu items without sending the working data to RecipeWanted.
UK 14-allergen framework · Local save + CSV · Review checksOpen Tool → Interactive ToolCooking Converters
Convert cooking units, compare US and Imperial volume measures, estimate ingredient cups-to-grams, translate oven settings and compare baking-pan sizes in one browser-based toolkit.
Exact unit conversion · Ingredient cups → grams · Oven + gas markOpen Tool → Interactive ToolRecipe Scaler
Scale recipes by servings, portions, trays, loaves or other yields; handle fractions and ranges, flag ingredients that need judgement, and save, copy, print or export the working scale plan locally in your browser.
Servings + batch yield · Fractions + ranges · Review checksOpen Tool → Interactive ToolFood & Wine Pairing Finder
Build wine-style pairings from the dish itself — main food, sauce, cooking method, intensity, acidity, sweetness and chilli heat — then compare four explainable options, an alcohol-free direction and an optional UK alcohol-units check.
Dish + sauce logic · 20 wine styles · Explainable resultsOpen Tool → Interactive ToolIngredient Substitution Finder
Compare curated ingredient substitutions by the job the ingredient is doing in the recipe. See a practical starting relationship, function fit, texture and flavour consequences, technique changes, and explicit situations where the swap is a poor fit.
20 curated ingredients · Function + context first · Technique consequencesOpen Tool → Interactive ToolRecipe Cost Calculator
Cost a recipe from prices you actually pay. Separate proportional ingredient usage from whole-pack cash outlay, preserve explicit usable-yield assumptions, add known batch costs, calculate per-yield cost and explore transparent gross-margin, markup or target-cost-percentage maths without RecipeWanted inventing grocery prices.
Your own prices · 16-unit registry preserved · Usage ≠ cash outlayOpen Tool → Interactive ToolBread & Pizza Dough Calculator
Build bread or pizza dough formulas from total flour, a target final dough mass, or a required number of dough balls/loaves. Uses deterministic baker’s-percentage maths, explicit prefermented-flour accounting, practical rounding and browser-local save/export without predicting fermentation or bake times.
Baker’s % · Reverse dough maths · Preferment accountingOpen Tool → Interactive ToolCook With What You Have Finder
Enter ingredients you already have, ingredients you want to use, known missing items and hard exclusions. The finder deterministically ranks existing published RecipeWanted recipes from a pre-built WP Delicious Recipe Index, explains what matched and what may still be needed, and never generates a replacement recipe.
Existing recipes only · Ingredient coverage · Explainable rankingOpen Tool → Interactive ToolCooking Timeline Planner
Build a dependency-aware cooking schedule from durations you supply or explicitly import from current RecipeWanted recipe timing metadata. Plan forwards from a start time or backwards from a finish/serve time, expose critical-path tasks and timing slack, and optionally prevent hands-on tasks from overlapping for a one-cook workflow.
Dependency-aware · Critical path · Finish-by planningOpen Tool → Interactive ToolParty & Catering Quantity Planner
Plan menu quantities for parties, buffets, community events and small catering using guest groups and assumptions you can actually see and change. Calculate direct mass/volume/count requirements, purchase quantities after a known usable-yield percentage, package ceilings and exact RecipeWanted recipe scale factors without pretending one appetite or waste allowance fits every event.
Editable assumptions · Guest groups · Package planningOpen Tool → Interactive ToolMulti-Recipe Shopping List Builder
Combine several published RecipeWanted recipes and manual extras into one shopping list using deterministic ingredient identity and unit-family rules. Compatible quantities consolidate; ambiguous quantities, unknown units and incompatible count/mass/volume forms stay visible for manual review rather than being guessed.
Multiple recipes · Unit-aware · Pantry exclusionsOpen Tool → Food Data Sub-PillarFood Data
Search and compare reported nutrients from USDA FoodData Central. Check the source and measurement basis, or follow the separate UK CoFID reference. These records are not personalised nutrition advice.
Official source data · 100 g / 100 ml basis-aware · Source provenanceOpen Tool → Food Calendar Sub-PillarFood Calendar
Explore sourced food, agrifood and food-culture dates across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Oceania. Dates stay attached to their source, recurrence model and cultural scope rather than becoming generic “food holidays”.
6 continents · Source checked · Calendar exportOpen Tool →Live Resources
Planning & equipment resources
Use these when the job is organising the week, managing food storage or deciding which equipment is worth adding.
Equipment Guide
Kitchen Tools & Equipment
Build a practical kitchen setup around the jobs you actually do: cutting, cookware, measurement, prep, appliances, storage and maintenance. Compare what matters before buying, then browse governed equipment and resource links without treating price or brand as proof of quality.
Priority planner · 7 equipment jobs · Equipment AutomationOpen Resource → Equipment GuideBaking Tools
Build a baking setup around the bakes you actually make. Prioritise measurement, mixing, shaping, bakeware, heat control and finishing; compare what matters before buying; and use governed equipment and resource links without treating price or brand as proof of quality.
Baking setup planner · 7 baking jobs · Equipment AutomationOpen Resource → Weekly Planning ToolMeal Planning Tools
Build a flexible weekly meal plan around real schedules, planned leftovers, freezer meals and use-first food; keep shopping and prep notes beside the plan; review weak spots; then save, copy, export or print the working plan locally in your browser.
Weekly plan builder · Leftover-aware · Shopping + prep notesOpen Resource → Storage & Safety ToolFood Storage Tools
Organise fridge, freezer and cupboard food with a local storage tracker, date-label and temperature checks, leftover/freezer planning, safety boundaries and governed storage resources — without pretending a generic tool can decide whether food is safe to eat.
Storage tracker · Date + temperature checks · Leftover + freezer workflowOpen Resource →The wider RecipeWanted system
Move from the tool into the format that answers the next question
Resources handles calculations, planning and working decisions. Use the wider RecipeWanted ecosystem when the next need is a recipe, deeper explanation, a demonstration, a visual reference or current food context.
RecipesSearch Recipes
Move from the planning or calculation decision into a complete RecipeWanted dish.
Open Recipes →Cooking EducationCooking EducationMove from a practical tool into the deeper cooking principle, method or explanation behind the decision.
Open Cooking Education →Video EducationEducation Videos HubUse movement, timing, texture and visible cues when a demonstration is more useful than another block of text.
Open Video Education →Visual GuidesVisual GuidesUse static visual references for recognition, comparison and pause-and-check kitchen decisions.
Open Visual Guides →Food NewsFood NewsMove from evergreen utility into current food context, safety updates and wider developments.
Open Food News →RecipeWanted BlogRecipeWanted BlogExplore longer-form cooking, culture, equipment, science and practical kitchen context.
Open RecipeWanted Blog →How Resources works
Useful first, transparent underneath
The pillar is designed so the tool or decision support remains useful even when there is no commercial link to click.
Working data
Calculator and planner entries are normally processed in your browser; optional local saving keeps a copy on that device. Food Data lookups send the search term to the configured data provider. Check each tool’s data notice before entering information. Normal site analytics/cookies may still operate according to RecipeWanted’s privacy and consent settings.
Safety boundaries
Tools organise information and calculations; they do not override package instructions, competent-authority guidance, appliance instructions or professional advice where those are required.
Commercial independence
Affiliate, sponsored or partner relationships are labelled. They do not change calculator logic, pairing order, safety checks or whether a product is described as necessary.
Source transparency
Each mature tool page links to the external authorities or specialist references relevant to that subject, with machine-readable citations added where appropriate.
Trust, safety & accountability
The tools are useful because their limits stay visible
RecipeWanted separates calculation/organisation from legal, medical, safety and commercial authority. When a decision depends on a product label, competent authority, manufacturer, professional advice or organisation-specific procedure, that source remains more authoritative than a generic browser tool.
Privacy Policy
How RecipeWanted handles site-level privacy and data processing.
Open policy / trust route → Quality and Safety StandardRecipeWanted’s public approach to evidence, higher-consequence topics, corrections, AI-assisted workflows and commercial independence.
Open policy / trust route → DisclaimerThe general information, professional-advice and reliance boundaries that apply across RecipeWanted.
Open policy / trust route → Terms of UseWebsite/service terms where a published RecipeWanted terms page exists.
Open policy / trust route → Cookie Policy (UK)Site-level cookie/storage information where a dedicated published policy exists.
Open policy / trust route → ContactReport a factual, safety, accessibility, commercial or other material concern for review.
Open policy / trust route →No borrowed authority: linking to the FSA, NHS, ICO, GOV.UK, NIST, WSET or another external source does not mean that organisation has reviewed, approved or endorsed RecipeWanted.
How Resources can be checked
Method — current tools use declared deterministic browser-side logic rather than runtime AI-generated answers.Evidence — subject references and reliance boundaries are registered and reviewable.Independence — commercial inventory and aggregate analytics cannot change a tool result.Correction — factual or method concerns can be escalated through the published RecipeWanted contact route when available.
Trusted external references
Start with the source that owns the question
RecipeWanted links outward where an official or specialist body is the better authority. Tool pages contain additional topic-specific references.
Food Standards AgencyAllergen guidance for food businesses
UK allergen information and food-business management guidance.
Open trusted source →NISTMetric KitchenMeasurement, cookware, temperature and culinary conversion references.
Open trusted source →NHSThe Eatwell GuideUK public-health guidance for overall food-group balance across a day or week.
Open trusted source →Food Standards ScotlandSafe food storageScottish household food-storage guidance and label/storage checks.
Open trusted source →WSETWine food matching essentialsEducational wine-and-food pairing principles and preference-aware guidance.
Open trusted source →Use the right RecipeWanted route
Resources supports the task; other pillars answer different questions
Calculators, planners, working records and purchase-adjacent decision support.
Methods, techniques, ingredients, storage principles and deeper explanation.
Open Education →Recipe SearchChoose a complete dish when the decision work is finished and you are ready to cook.
Search Recipes →Legal, privacy & fair-use notice
Free Resources, with clear limits and clear data boundaries.
RecipeWanted Resources provides general cooking information, deterministic calculations, planning aids and reference tools. It is not legal, medical, dietetic, allergy, regulatory or other professional advice, and it does not replace product labels, manufacturer instructions, competent-authority guidance or qualified professional advice where those are needed.
Each tool explains how it handles your entries. This Resources analytics dataset does not retain recipe or ingredient names, pantry lists, allergy, dietary or health information, other free text, exact quantities, visitor/session/account IDs, IP addresses, user-agent strings or referrer URLs.
This Resources statistics layer is currently enabled and records only allowlisted aggregate interaction and coarse workflow/build-shape counters. Daily aggregate buckets are retained for up to 730 days. Aggregate results are for RecipeWanted/QHE internal RecipeWanted service improvement only; they are not sold or used by this layer for advertising measurement, individual profiling or cross-site tracking.
Any reasonable fair-use or availability rules for free tools are separate from privacy law. Access is not conditional on participating in Resources analytics, and “fair use” is not treated as consent or as a legal basis for collecting personal data. On instrumented Resources pages, the usage-statistics panel provides a simple, free objection control.
Wider site/infrastructure scope: ordinary hosting, security, caching, firewall, consent-management or server-log systems may process technical request information outside the Resources aggregate dataset. Those systems remain governed by RecipeWanted’s wider privacy/CMP arrangements and published privacy information. This Resources notice does not claim that every web request is anonymous.
External authorities linked elsewhere in Resources support specific facts or methods; their inclusion does not mean they approve or endorse RecipeWanted. If a higher-consequence decision is uncertain, stop and verify it with the appropriate current source.First-party usage statistics
Help RecipeWanted learn what is actually useful
Resources records aggregate usage statistics such as qualified tool views, whether a working surface is started, route-level value actions, coarse read depth, broad workflow/build-shape buckets and which non-commercial RecipeWanted handoffs are used. Build-shape signals are deliberately coarse (for example, a small/medium/large row-count bucket or a selected calculator mode): RecipeWanted does not send the recipe name, ingredient list, pantry items, allergen/dietary choices, free text or exact quantities to this analytics dataset; it does not create a visitor/session ID; and it does not store IP addresses, user-agent strings or referrer URLs in the analytics dataset.
Purpose: help RecipeWanted/QHE decide which free tools, workflows, supporting content and first-party integrations to improve next. Aggregate statistics may be reviewed internally across QHE only for that same RecipeWanted service-improvement purpose. They are not sold and are not used by this layer for advertising measurement, cross-site tracking or individual profiling. Free access is not conditional on this measurement: opting out does not disable or reduce any Resource tool.
What is counted and retained?
Allowed counters include 5-second qualified views, 30 seconds of visible engagement, 50%/90% read depth, first working-surface use, selected non-commercial feature/export/continuity actions, hub task choices, broad allowlisted workflow/build-shape buckets and RecipeWanted internal/ecosystem handoffs. Counts are merged directly into UTC daily buckets and retained for up to 730 days under the current admin setting. The only browser preference this layer writes is the first-party objection cookie after you choose to opt out; removing the objection deletes that preference. This describes the Resources aggregate dataset only; ordinary hosting, security, caching, firewall, consent-management or server-log systems remain governed separately by RecipeWanted’s wider privacy/CMP arrangements.
Privacy informationYou can object simply and free of charge at any time. The preference applies only to this first-party Resources statistics layer.
Continue from Resources
Use the practical tool, then move into the cooking.
Search Recipes when you are ready to choose a dish, or use Cooking Education when the next question is technique, method or understanding.
