Calculated Industries 8305 KitchenCalc PRO Recipe Conversion and Culinary Math Calculator with 2 Digital Timers for Chefs, Culinary Students, Home Cooks, Bakers, Brewers and BBQers | Recipe Scaling | Menu Planning | Portion Sizing, Small

Calculated Industries KitchenCalc 8305 PRO Master Chef Edition Recipe Conversion Calculator with Dual Digital TimerThis is a wonderful device for home use. We recently bought a Secura Turbo Oven and then bought some Turbo Oven cookbooks. The cookbooks are of British origin and thus are metric. This device device solves this problem. This unit converts metric to our USA measurement system. This unit will deal with gallons, quart, pints, cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, pounds, ounces (both dry and fluid) having made the conversion from liters, centiliters, milliliters, kilograms,grams so so forth. This unit also does temperature conversions of Fahrenheit and Celsius. You can do fractions with this for in between sizes. Has two timers built in. This unit will adjust the recipes for different serving sizes. By the way, I had originally purchased the 8300 by Calculated Industries. This is the palm sized version of this with a few less features. This was also an excellent calculator, but just too small to read the print on the buttons. I am very happy with this model 8305.

Wow!. I am not an expert at cooking; however, with this device I could sure seem like it. It does all the calculations that I need to do to scale up or down a recipe. No joke. I can take an oversized recipe for 8 servings and scale it down for one (me) and still have the same ingredient levels that make it taste so great. It is must have for people like me that don't know how to calculate things. In addition, a feature that I just love, it converts odd amounts into user-friendly amounts. No more wondering how much 5/8 cup measure is in tablespoons, just hit the convert button and find out it is 10. Super easy to understand -- super easy to use. I don't know how I could have gone this long without having the calculator. Great job guys.

This calculator is fantastic for doing all of the kitchen calculations one would need to do in any type of kitchen! As a Culinary Student, I've learned how to do the calculations in several steps using a regular calculator, but this one takes out several of those steps to get you to your correct answer in the fewest steps possible. Recipe conversions & costing the easy way! It even has two built in timers for live cooking applications.The ONLY downside of this calculator is that the plastic cover that came with mine was very difficult to get on the calculator & once I got it on, the buttons didn't work properly because the fit was too tight. I will have to see if I can find a way to stretch it out some, without ruining the cover........or send it back & request a new one that fits properly.If you have trouble remembering conversions & being able to do them in your head, this solves that problem. It converts to metric also if you need that....

Bought this for my sister who does a lot of cooking. She LOVES it!

Love having this around to adjust recipes, portion sizes and go from liquid to powder measurements. Very easy to go from cups to gallons and then to liters if needed. Gives you the option of 2 timers, and regular mathmatics as needed. Comes with a protective cover for the kitchen and is quite durable!

I love this handy calculator! I'm not so good with math when it comes to converting recipes. Especially those recipes with uneven fractions. This does it all, and it's easy to use. I only wish I'd had one years ago. It is true the protective cover is a tight fit, and interferes with the keypad, but who cares? Just don't use the cover. This machine is so useful I certainly don't mind being a little careful with it. If you're really that worried about protecting your calculator, put it in a clear plastic bag. In fact, the instruction booklet comes in a clear bag that works just fine.

Not what I had hoped for.Pros: I does what it says... timer, conversions etc. Seems sturdy enough.Cons: Not intuitive to use at all. Plan on spending some time in the manual. The plastic cover is a great idea to keep dust, flour, etc. out of the keypad, but in reality the plastic cover is too stiff to be able to push the keys with any reliability. Timer alarm volume is very low. You better be standing right in front of this thing when it beeps or you're going to miss it.

Not only for cooking & baking. Comes in handy for kids just starting out with fractions in math. Really helped my daughter who struggles in math. She no longer needs the calculator in math. I think the visual effect of seeing the fractions on the screen really helped.

It’s a nice addition to a kitchen counter, the dual timers work well, and continue in the background if you interrupt for some other task. But I wish it included keys/conversion factors for metric and imperial measure. It’s just the right place for it and that handy feature would greatly increase the calculators use value.

I like this unit for its timers and the calculator. The recipe functions are still foreign to me, so I'll have to figure those out before adding comments for them.

Although this calculator may be a bit of an investment, it is well worth it and will probably be the only kitchen/culinary calculator you will ever need. It does metric conversions and kitchen measurement conversions six ways from Sunday. It will allow you the upsize or downsize recipies to your heart's content. The dual countup/countdown timer functions are highly useful. The tilt-up display makes reading your calculated results a breeze. I find the larger size of the 8305 easier to operate with my man-size fingers than what would be the case with a smaller hand-held unit. The only criticism I have is that although it does come with a removeable protective plastic cover sleeve, it is very difficult to operate the calculator with the sleeve on due to the thickness of the sleeve. Notwithstanding this minor flaw, I highly recommend this product for anyone obsessed with 'getting it right' in the kitchen.

Easy to use. The manual could be a little better with samples on how to enter and adjust a recipe.

je ne peut pas me servir de la calculatrice qui est en anglais. je vais la garder quand mememais je ne suis pas satisfait