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Tare
Honest to the spoon.
The kitchen converter that tells you how close every answer is, with the tools a chef actually reaches for.
Formerly Convert Simple
Free on the App StoreScroll
Honest to the spoon.
The kitchen converter that tells you how close every answer is, with the tools a chef actually reaches for.
Formerly Convert Simple
Free on the App StoreThe Problem
The recipe calls for 59 milliliters of milk. You ask a converter for tablespoons, and it says 3.
It’s wrong by nearly a whole spoonful. Fifty-nine milliliters is a quarter cup: four tablespoons, less a drop. The converter rounded down and didn’t tell you. Another one says 3.99, which is right, and no help at all. Nobody owns a 0.99 spoon.
Every converter has to round. Kitchens run on cups and spoons, not decimals. The trouble is that they round in silence.
In a stew, a missing tablespoon disappears. In a cake, it doesn’t.
The Name
On a kitchen scale, tare sends the needle back to zero, so the only thing you weigh is what you add. Tare does that for every measurement. It clears away the decimals, the guesswork, and the chart taped inside the cabinet door, and leaves you the amount you need, along with how close it is.
Tare began as Convert Simple, a small converter that did one thing. A classically trained chef rebuilt it to work the way a kitchen does: fractions on the keys, ingredients by weight, and the tools a working cook uses every day. If you own Convert Simple, Tare is your update, and Pro is already yours.
Be Honest
None of these are measurements. They’re guesses with decimal points.
The Solution
Tare rounds to the nearest amount you can actually measure, then tells you which way it went. Almost 4 Tablespoons means a hair under. A generous 2 tablespoons means a hair over. A gauge shows exactly how close, and the exact figure sits right underneath for anyone who wants it.
Conversions
The Chef’s Tools
Kitchens portion with dishers, and a disher’s number is how many level scoops fill a quart. Tare puts every size in one chart, by handle color, with what each one holds in fluid ounces, spoons, and milliliters.
Tap one to plan a batch. Three quarts of dough and a #40 make 120 cookies. Need two hundred? Make five quarts.
Big, hollow crystals leave more air in the spoon. So a tablespoon of Diamond Crystal kosher salt is about 1¾ teaspoons of Morton, and a little under 1½ of table salt.
Tell Tare which salt the recipe meant and which one is in your cupboard. By weight they’re all the same. Tare does the spoons.
Everywhere You Cook
The Bake Sale
Friday, 7 p.m. The bake sale is tomorrow, and you said you’d bring cookies. Two hundred of them.
The recipe is your grandmother’s, typed up by a cousin who converted everything to metric. It wants 59 milliliters of milk. Tare says Almost 4 Tablespoons, and the gauge shows how close: a hair under. Four spoons, scant.
The salt line says a tablespoon of Diamond Crystal. The box in your cupboard says Morton. 1¾ teaspoons. You stop worrying about the salt.
You portion with the orchid-handled scoop, a #40. One batch is three quarts of dough: 120 cookies. Two hundred takes five quarts, so you scale the recipe by one and two-thirds, and Tare turns every line into cups and spoons you own. ¾ cup of sugar becomes 1¼ cups.
Your oven runs convection. The card says 375° for 12 minutes. Tare says 350°, same time, check early.
Saturday, 6 a.m. Butter on your hands, you glance at your watch for the grams. Two hundred cookies. Every one the same size, and every one tastes like hers.
The Difference
Tare does one job, the way a cook would do it.
To keep the recipes you love, use Ladle. To develop new ones, use Mise. For the measurement in the middle of either, use Tare.
A Fair Price
A converter is a utility. It doesn’t deserve a subscription, and it shouldn’t lock the basics. Everything you need to convert is free. Pro is for the cook who wants the whole pantry.
Free for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Already have Convert Simple? Update it, and it’s Tare.
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