Question 1

How does What's in your kitchen work?

Accepted Answer

You type or tap the ingredients you already have. The app scores every recipe by how much of it you can cover, then shows the ones you can cook right now first, and the ones that are one or two ingredients away — with a suggested swap for each missing item.

Question 2

What counts as having an ingredient?

Accepted Answer

Pantry staples — salt, oil, water, sugar, black pepper and a few basics — count as always in, the way a real kitchen works. A recipe only needs your explicit items for the things you'd actually have to shop for.

Question 3

How much is a teacup in ml?

Accepted Answer

This kitchen treats one teacup as 200 ml and one tumbler as 250 ml — the two common Indian kitchen measures. You can convert from either into metric, cups or grams at any time in the Convert tab.

Question 4

Why does the converter treat grams and cups per ingredient?

Accepted Answer

Because a cup of flour weighs about 120 g while a cup of sugar weighs about 200 g. The conversion engine is density-aware: it uses each ingredient's grams-per-cup value, so 100 g of flour and 100 g of sugar give different cup amounts — correctly.

Question 5

Does What's in your kitchen need an account or upload anything?

Accepted Answer

No. Everything runs on your device — no account, no signup, no upload, no analytics. Your kitchen list, servings and shopping list are remembered in your browser's local storage and nowhere else.

Question 6

Can What's in your kitchen work offline?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Install it as a Progressive Web App from the browser menu and matching, recipes, converter, timers and cook mode all work with no connection. The optional online mode — searching TheMealDB for recipes — is off by default and only sends your ingredient names when you switch it on.

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