Converting Recipes

Appears in
Professional Cooking

By Wayne Gisslen

Published 2014

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Unless you are working in an operation that uses only its own standardized recipes, you will frequently be required to increase or decrease recipes to different quantities. Each recipe is designed to make a specific amount of finishes product. This amount is called the yield. For example, you may have a recipe for 50 portions of Swiss steak but need only 25 portions. You need to change the yield of your recipe. This is called converting the recipe.

Converting recipes is an important technique. It is a skill you will probably need to use many times in this book. There is no “best” yield to write recipes for, as every operation, every school, and every individual has different needs.