Cooking guides
Guides and techniques
Reference guides that sit behind our recipes: food safety, measuring and scaling.
Food safety
Safe Cooking Temperatures
The minimum internal temperatures for meat, poultry, fish, eggs and leftovers, in Fahrenheit and Celsius, and how to measure them.
TechniqueHow to Measure Ingredients Accurately
How to measure flour, sugar and liquids, why weighing is more reliable, and the conversions this site uses for cups, spoons, ounces and oven temperatures.
TechniqueScaling a Recipe Up or Down
What changes, and what does not, when you double or halve a recipe: ingredients, pan sizes, cooking times, seasoning and leavening.