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Translate Any Recipe — and Get the Measurements Right

Most translators can turn a French recipe into English words. KitchenConvert is a recipe translator: it translates the cooking technique properly, then rewrites every measurement for your region — because a perfectly translated recipe with a 200 ml Japanese cup or a 20 ml Australian tablespoon still fails on the plate.

See it on a real recipe

Original — French

Tarte Tatin aux pommes

  • 6 pommes Golden
  • 150 g de sucre en poudre
  • 100 g de beurre demi-sel
  • 1 pâte feuilletée
  • 1 sachet de sucre vanillé
  1. 1.Préchauffez le four à 180 °C.
  2. 2.Faites fondre le beurre et le sucre dans le moule jusqu’à obtenir un caramel blond.
  3. 3.Disposez les pommes en quartiers, côté bombé vers le bas.
  4. 4.Recouvrez de pâte feuilletée en rentrant les bords.
  5. 5.Enfournez 30 minutes, puis retournez la tarte encore chaude.

Translated & converted — English

Apple Tarte Tatin

  • 6 Golden Delicious apples
  • 150 g caster sugar (¾ cup)
  • 100 g salted butter (7 tbsp / 3.5 oz)
  • 1 sheet puff pastry
  • 1 sachet vanilla sugar (about 2 tsp)
  1. 1.Preheat the oven to 180 °C (356 °F / Gas 4).
  2. 2.Melt the butter and sugar in the tin until you have a light golden caramel.
  3. 3.Arrange the apple quarters rounded-side down.
  4. 4.Cover with puff pastry, tucking the edges in around the apples.
  5. 5.Bake for 30 minutes, then invert the tart while it is still warm.

What KitchenConvert did beyond the words

  • Oven temperature converted: 180 °C → 356 °F, with the Gas 4 equivalent added.
  • Cup equivalents added alongside the original grams (150 g caster sugar = ¾ US cup).
  • "Sucre vanillé" is sold in sachets in France — resolved to a usable teaspoon measure.
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Regional units

Why translation alone isn’t enough

Measurements are regional, and generic translators leave them untouched. A cup is 240 ml in the US, 250 ml in Australia and most metric countries, 200 ml in Japan, and 284 ml in old British recipes. An Australian tablespoon is 20 ml — every other country’s is 15 ml. Follow a translated recipe with the wrong assumptions and the maths silently ruins the dish.

KitchenConvert detects where a recipe comes from — the language, the cuisine, the units it uses — and re-bases every quantity for your kitchen. Read more on the gotchas in our guide to Japanese serving sizes.

How it works

  1. Step 1

    Paste, snap, or link

    Paste recipe text, photograph a cookbook page or handwritten card, or drop in a URL. Foreign-language photos work too.

  2. Step 2

    Language detected

    KitchenConvert identifies the source language and the regional measurement system the recipe was written in.

  3. Step 3

    Translated & localised

    You get the recipe in English with technique intact, every unit in your system, ready to scale and save.

Supported languages

FrenchItalianSpanishJapaneseChineseGermanPortugueseKoreanThaiEnglish

Questions

Common questions

Which languages can KitchenConvert translate recipes from?
French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, German, Portuguese, Korean and Thai — into English, or the other way around. The source language is detected automatically, so you can paste a recipe without knowing what language it is in.
Does it get the measurements right too?
Yes — that is the point. A translated recipe with the wrong units still fails: a Japanese cup is 200 ml, a metric cup is 250 ml, and an Australian tablespoon is 20 ml while almost everywhere else uses 15 ml. KitchenConvert detects the recipe’s origin and rewrites every measurement in your preferred system alongside the translation.
Can it translate a handwritten or photographed recipe?
Yes. Snap a photo of a cookbook page or a handwritten recipe card and KitchenConvert reads it, translates it if it is not in English, and puts the measurements in your units — all in one step. Old family recipes in another language are exactly what this was built for.
Is the recipe translator free?
Translation is part of the Pro plan ($9/month, 10 translations a day) and Premium ($19/month, unlimited). A free account gives you unlimited unit conversion and scaling, plus photo scanning. The examples on this page are real, unedited KitchenConvert output so you can see the quality before paying anything.
How accurate is the translation?
It translates cooking technique, not just ingredient names — “sfumate” becomes “deglaze and let the wine evaporate”, not “fade”. Every translated recipe lands in your recipe box as editable text, so if you would phrase a step differently, you can change it.

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Translation is included in Pro ($9/month). Start with a free account — calories and macros per serve, unlimited scaling — and upgrade when you’re ready to translate.

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