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Scaling Eggs for a Single Serving

Cooking one serving can leave an awkward egg amount even when the arithmetic is simple. Seeing the fraction clearly lets the cook decide how to measure it instead of quietly rounding a binder without considering the effect.

A cook wants one serving of a recipe whose two-serving ingredient list contains three eggs.

Scale the pancake to one serving

1. Choose Cabbage Egg Rice Pancake, whose two-serving ingredient list contains three eggs.
2. Set Servings to 1 and scale the recipe.
3. Read the egg line and the practical scaling note.

The half egg is a real fraction

Cabbage Egg Rice Pancake scales from three eggs to 1.5 eggs for one serving.

The recipe has three eggs for two servings, so one serving needs one and a half. Beat an egg and measure the required fraction of the mixture; do not try to divide a whole egg by cutting the shell.

Beat the eggs together and measure half the beaten amount, or cook the original two-serving recipe.