Converter
Kitchen unit converter
Cups to grams, tablespoons to milliliters, ounces to grams. Ingredient-aware: 1 cup of flour weighs different from 1 cup of sugar.
Tools
Three small tools that earn their keep
Each runs entirely in your browser. No account, no signup, no tracking. The pantry checklist saves to your browser so you can come back to it.
Scaler
Recipe scaler
Multiply or halve a recipe. Warns you about salt, garlic, chili, and other things that don't scale linearly. Saves your last setting.
Checklist
Pantry checklist
The 12 pantry staples I keep, with check boxes that remember what you've already got. No login. Data stays in your browser.
Why these are simple on purpose
Most "kitchen tools" online want you to make an account, sign up for a newsletter, and accept a tracking pixel before they'll convert teaspoons to grams. None of that is needed for arithmetic. These tools do their job, save what's useful in your own browser, and don't ask for anything.
If you have an idea for a tool that would actually help — a cook-time scaler for different oven sizes, a doneness calculator for steak, anything else — tell me at hello@chefmelissa.shop. The bar for adding a tool to this site is "I would use this myself every week."