We just submitted a group of cooking calculators to Palm. This is what I think is one of the most powerful group of cooking calculators on any mobile platform. Here’s the catalog description:
Essential Cooking Calculators will become your new partner in the kitchen. These calculators will save you time and eliminate the guessing in doing many complex conversions. There are 16 calculators, conversion tables and handy lookups included.
Weight to Volume Converter – choose from 180 common ingredients to convert a quantity between 28 common weight and volume measurements.
Recipe Scaling – add, subtract, multiple and divide whole and fraction measurements to easily help scale recipes.
Fraction to Decimal – convert a fraction to it’s decimal equivalent.
Decimal to Fraction – convert a decimal to it’s fraction equivalent.
Temperature Converter – Convert a temperature between 5 common temperature scales.
Convection Oven Converter – Converter a time and temperature from a conventional oven to a convection oven.
Ingredient Weight Conversion – convert a given quantity between 69 common (and not so common!) weight measurements.
Crockpot Conversions – crockpot cooking times and temperatures for many common dishes.
Heirloom Measurements – the recipe from Grandma calls for 10 penny weights of vanilla? Many measurements from old recipes covered here.
Turkey Dinner Estimator – for a given number of adults and children, estimate amount of turkey, gravy and stuffing needed.
Ingredient Substitutes – a huge list of ingredients and their substitutes with measurements.
Sugar Substitutes – table of many of the sugar substitutes and their equivalent sugar measurements.
Spice Mix Table – many popular spice mixes with ingredients.
Honey Flavors – a fun lookup of all the different honey flavors.
Soup and Stew glossary – learn the difference between a Borsch and a Burgoo and many other soups and stews.
v1.0.0 – Initial release.
Future calculators will be updated and enhanced based on user feedback. Send your comments and ideas to me at support@sidetop.com.
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