Calculated Industries8300 KitchenCalc Recipe Conversion and Culinary Math Calculator with Digital Timer for Chefs, Culinary Students, Home Cooks and Bakers | Scale Recipes, Menu Plans, Portion Sizes

This is the best culinary calculator! It does everything for what you need in your cooking and baking. No more figuring it out for yourself. This calculator does it for you. Definately a good buy and no kitchen should be without it!

It is worth the price and it’s a chef’s best friend!

Hard to understand manual, but find a video on U Tube that was very helpful.

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....

I bought one of these back sometime around 2003. I loved it. It worked wonderfully and only required one battery change in almost 10 years! But then it finally died but I got more than my money's worth out of it.6 months ago I ordered another one. It looked the same but I noticed that the alarm was much quieter and the LCD display would dim when I turned one of the timers on. After a week or so, the display became so dim it was unreadable. I thought perhaps the battery was bad so I replaced it. It helped a bit but within another week it was unusable again.Giving the Calculated Industries the benefit of the doubt - manufacturing errors can occur - I threw the 2nd one away and ordered a new one.The new one is working somewhat better but the display still dims when a timer is turned on and the alarms are barely audible. One manufacturing error is a mistake, two are a pattern. At least the battery isn't draining on a weekly basis.Pros: Dual timers are incredibly useful for cooking. The big display (when readable) is great when you're in a hurry. The conversion and scaling features are immensely valuable if you cook for two but only find recipes for 4 or more.Cons: Manufacturing and quality control have gone downhill. Alarms are inaudible around any kind of noise (fans, TV, talking). The display dims when keys are pressed and stay dim when timers are activated.Overall: I still use it because I haven't found any other dedicated device with such a nice set of features. So, two stars for good design but poor execution.There are apps for iOS and Android that can be used on smartphones and tablets but these aren't ideal in a kitchen where they can be contaminated by liquids and foods on the fingers. Plus, the apps close when the device sleeps and it's annoying to have to keep entering the wake-up code to deal with the timers.

Too complicated not good instructions

I saw this calculator as a deal, and I didn't understand why the original price was expensive. Then, I was a little skeptical and didn't know if I needed it, I figured I could just continue converting online or on a normal calculator. I WAS SO WRONG! I am so happy I bought this, especially in time for Christmas baking. I use it all the time in the kitchen, and sometimes for other circumstances. I felt like a nerd, but I did read the little manual that comes with it, because I was a little confused and there is a lot of helpful information in there. This calculator can truly do so much and I highly, highly recommend it to anyone who ever needs to convert recipes or get teaspoons to cups, or whatever!

This kitchen calculator is a blessing to me. It's compact enough to fit in one of my kitchen drawers. I have several recipes (one from a cruise line) that has measurements other than those found in the U.S. This calculator handles the differences plus can increase or decrease measurements in a recipe.

Useful for converting, weights, volumes and temperatures from American to UK measures in recipes, and Imperial to Metric and vice versa. Can adjust ingredient quantities for smaller or larger portions in recipes.

So pleased with this calculator. Bought this to convert dry weight into cups and tsp etc. for pricing Market sale products. (My old one only converted Liquid.) Love this as it does both liquid and dry and so much more. So glad to have found it. Indispensable for my needs.

I love this little calculator. It converts just about any measurement you need without having to switch between different measurement categories. It even has a timer and a function to recalculate serving size. It’s a must have if you love cooking or baking.

Very useful in the kitchen. This works Great. Have a similar calculator from CI for wood working/building and actually have two of those, and bought one for a friend.. Well worth the money. It is simple to use.

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.