Show recipes in your units

Read every recipe's temperatures in °F or °C, and its cups, grams and pan sizes in US or metric measures, whichever units the recipe was written in.

Pick your units

In Settings, under Units, there are two settings:

Temperature: °F or °C.
Measures: US (cups, ounces, pounds, inches) or Metric (milliliters, grams, centimeters).

Recipes then show their amounts in those units, in the steps and the ingredient list, in every display format. As written shows each recipe the way it was written, which is the default for both. The two are separate, so you can read temperatures in °C and still keep your cups.

The settings cover your whole household. Only the household owner can change them.

Change units on one recipe

To see a single recipe in other units, open it and use Adjust, above the recipe. It has the same two settings, and anyone in the household can use them. The change lasts only while you’re on that recipe: the next one you open shows the household’s units again.

To see every recipe in your units, change them in Settings instead.

Recipes shared publicly have Adjust too, so anyone reading one can switch its units or servings, with or without an account. If you’re signed in, a shared recipe starts in your household’s units.

What changes and what doesn’t

Only what you see changes. The recipe itself keeps the author’s words, so editing a recipe still shows the amounts as they were written, and switching back to As written puts everything back.

When a recipe already gives both, such as “450°F (230°C)” or “1/2 cup (125 g)”, you see the author’s own number in your units, and the other one is hidden.
In Traditional, Notecard and Cook mode, every number shown in your units is underlined with dots. Tap or point at one to see what the recipe originally said.
To make more or less of a recipe, see Make more or less of a recipe.

Temperatures

Oven temperatures round to the steps ovens are marked in, so 350°F shows as 180°C, not 177°C.
Thermometer readings, like a candy stage or the inside of a roast, stay exact to the degree.

Measures

Amounts round to what a measuring jug, scale or ruler shows: 1 cup is 240 ml, 1 pound is 450 g, and 125 ml is ½ cup. Under a cup, an amount no measuring cup holds shows in tablespoons: 90 ml is 6 tbsp, not ⅜ cup.
Cups become milliliters, not grams. How much a cup of flour weighs depends on the flour, so only a weight the recipe itself gives shows in grams.
Teaspoons and tablespoons stay as they are. Both kinds of kitchen measure with them.
Pan and cutting sizes convert too: a 9x13-inch pan shows as 23x33 cm.
In a recipe for a drink, ounces are fluid ounces, so 1 ounce of gin shows as 30 ml, and milliliters show as bar ounces in US measures.
Counts like “2 eggs” or “1 can”, a pinch, and cooking times are never touched.

Temperatures with no F or C

Some recipes just say “450°”. Platefolio reads it as Fahrenheit unless the recipe states Celsius somewhere else, comes from a site in a country that uses Celsius, or measures its ingredients in grams. With °F or °C picked, it then shows the scale too, such as “450°F” or “230°C”. Tap or point at it to see how Platefolio read it, such as “Written as 450°, read as °F”. With As written it stays “450°”. “Turn the pan 180°” is a turn, not a temperature, and is left alone.

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