Curious if anyone else had an AI tool totally mess up a recipe conversion

I asked an LLM to scale down a bread recipe from 4 loaves to 1 and it gave me something like 0.7 eggs and 1.3 teaspoons of salt, which just seems impractical for real baking. Has anyone found a workaround for getting accurate measurements out of these things?

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avery36618d ago

.7 eggs? What in the world were they thinking? That's not a recipe that's a math problem from a weird dream. I've had this exact same trouble with AI scaling and it drives me nuts. It's like they're treating eggs as if they're water you can just measure out a fraction of, but eggs don't work that way in real life. You can't just crack open an egg and pour out 70% of it, that's not how baking works. I've had some luck by telling the AI to round everything to whole numbers or standard fractions like half or quarter, and then adding a note like "for 1 loaf use 1 egg and round salt to 1 tsp." Still a pain though, you have to manually check everything.

avery72118d ago

Last week I asked an AI to scale down a cookie recipe from 48 cookies to 12 and it told me to use 0.6 of an egg and 0.8 of a teaspoon of vanilla. I just stared at my screen for a good minute trying to figure out how that was supposed to work. I finally gave up and made the full batch anyway because my brain couldn't handle the math. My freezer is now full of cookies and I guess that's just my life now.