Enter how much you have in stock. KitchenDesk scales the recipe, tells you how many portions you can make, and what each one costs.
Most chefs scale by hand. Calculator, paper, and a number that has to be right.
Type the number of portions you need. Every quantity updates. The cost updates with it.
Or do it the other way round. Tell KitchenDesk you have 600g of chocolate left. It tells you how many portions that makes, and what each one costs.
| Ingredient | Per 12 | For 24 |
|---|---|---|
| Dark chocolate 70% | 320g | 640g |
| Unsalted butter | 175g | 350g |
| Heavy cream | 240ml | 480ml |
| Eggs | 4 pc | 8 pc |
| Flour T55 | 120g | 240g |
Your chocolate supplier raises the price. You change it once, on the ingredient.
Every recipe using that chocolate updates its cost. So does every recipe built from those recipes.
Food cost percentages update too. Any recipe that stops making money turns orange, then red. You do not have to go looking for it.
No re-typing numbers. No searching for which recipe uses what.
You make a salted caramel. It goes inside a tart, an entremet and a cake. You also sell it in jars.
In KitchenDesk it is one recipe. Put it inside any other recipe, as many times as you want. There is no separate ingredient version to keep updated.
Change the caramel once and every product that contains it updates its cost.
| Contains | Qty | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Sponge base | 180g | $2.10 |
| Salted caramel | 130g | $0.64 |
| Sugar | 60g | $0.12 |
| Cream | 45ml | $0.29 |
| Butter | 24g | $0.22 |
| Salt | 1g | $0.01 |
| Chocolate glaze | 100g | $1.90 |
Choose the recipes you are making and how many batches of each. KitchenDesk adds up every ingredient across all of them.
Three recipes using butter become one line of butter. Your team collects everything once.
| Butter | 390g |
| Almond powder | 450g |
| Eggs | 12 pc |
| Caster sugar | 450g |
| Dark chocolate | 200g |
Every ingredient is linked to its supplier, with contact details and price.
If a delivery is late, you can see straight away which products are affected.
Normal software asks you to choose: is this a recipe, or is it an ingredient? In a pastry kitchen it is often both. KitchenDesk was built around that.
You set the prices and you make the products. Know your real cost before you decide what to charge, not months later.
Your recipes are your own work. Keep them in a private space that belongs to you, and that stays with you when you move on.
Your whole team works from the same numbers. Costs stay visible, prep lists stay correct, and nobody is working from an old file.
KitchenDesk started as our own problem. One of us runs a cake shop. The other is a pastry chef who was running everything on spreadsheets and an old program that barely worked.
We built the tool we needed. Every feature in it comes from a real working day.
Your recipes have to go in before the numbers come out. There is no way around that. But you do not have to do all of it before it becomes useful.
Enter one product and its ingredients. You immediately know what it costs you. Nothing else needs to be ready.
Every ingredient you enter stays available for the next recipe. The more you add, the faster each new recipe becomes.
On a paid plan, download the KitchenDesk template, fill it in, and import everything in a single step. It takes an evening or two for a large collection, and then it is done.
After that, nothing needs re-entering. Prices change in one place and every recipe follows.
No training fees. No setup fees. No contract.
Billed monthly · Cancel anytime
Billed monthly · Cancel anytime
Have a large recipe collection? Bulk import is included in every paid plan. Fill in our template once and load everything in a single step.
Not directly. Every chef's spreadsheet is built differently, so we give you a KitchenDesk template to fill in instead. It is a clear, step by step format. Filling it in takes time, but you do it once, and then the whole library loads in a single import.
KitchenDesk checks the entire file before anything is created: duplicates, missing information, ingredients it cannot find. You fix problems on screen, not in your data.
One recipe. Enter it and you know what it costs. Every ingredient you add makes the next recipe faster to build.
Yes. Your workspace is completely separate. No other business can see your data, and nobody sees it unless you invite them.
Yes. KitchenDesk is a web app. Open it in any browser on your phone, tablet or computer. Nothing to download, nothing to install.
Free up to 15 recipes. No credit card needed.