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Recipe scaling, ingredient substitutions, oven conversions, cup-to-gram math. Every claim is cross-checked against published baker's percentages and the Modernist Cuisine reference tables.

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Why kitchen recipes don't scale linearly (and the salt floor that breaks everything)
Doubling a recipe doesn't double the cooking time, and doubling the salt makes it too salty. The five things that don't scale the way you expect.
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Why kitchen recipes don't scale linearly (and the salt floor that breaks everything)