Kitchen Kalc

title screen
Example of an online recipe
output when inputs are given
output when inputs are given
output when inputs are given

Description

Kitchen Kalc is a program that allows users that bake or cook to conveniently take a recipe and change the serving size to their needs. Given the url to a recipe, we will calculate the needed quantity of ingredients for the new serving size inputted by the user. When they first enter the app, they will see a page with an input section and a button, in which they will input a website of a recipe from one of the following cooking websites:

Food Network

Genius Kitchen

Martha Stewart

Betty Crocker

Inspiration

It is always annoying when we find a recipe to cook or bake, but it does not have the right serving size to fit our needs We thought it would be nice to have a program that will take care of doing the converting.

Why Is It Useful

It allows users to get accurate conversions based on their desired serving size without having to calculate anything themselves

Difficulties and Roadblocks & How we fixed it!

Program outputted unusable fractions (unusually large numerators and denominators) when calculating the new portion value Solution: Used a class method to limit the largest possible denominator to 16, which is the smallest fraction for cooking. Program allowed input of invalid URLs; we fixed it to not allow bogus inputs