Worked example · simulated scenario

Matching Milk Across Volume Units

Milk recorded in liters should still count toward a recipe measured in milliliters. This is a straightforward volume conversion, with no need to know the milk’s weight or guess how much a container weighs.

The fridge contains 0.1 L milk. Banana Oat Pancakes require 80 mL; all other ingredients are recorded in full.

Match the two volume units

1. Add a Milk batch of 0.1 L.
2. Record the oats, banana, eggs and oil required by Banana Oat Pancakes.
3. Open What Can I Cook? and check recipes.

Enough milk, without a weight conversion

For the pancakes, the milk row shows 80 mL available toward the recipe and 0 mL missing.

One tenth of a liter is one hundred milliliters. The result shows only the eighty milliliters needed for the pancakes as available toward that recipe, leaving stock itself unchanged.

Record milk in volume units. A mass amount needs density information before it can be compared.