I built a free cooking calculator site — here's what I learned in week one

I've been building CookingCalcs (cookingcalcs.com) — a collection of free cooking calculators for home cooks. Unit conversion, recipe scaling, meat temperatures, meal cost. No sign-up, no ads yet, just tools.

Why I built it

Every time I searched for something like "cups to grams flour" or "how long to cook chicken breast at 400F," I'd land on a page that made me scroll through 800 words before getting the answer. I wanted one place where you type the question and get the answer immediately.

What's live

• 9 tools: cups to grams, oven temp converter, tablespoon to teaspoon, weight converter, recipe multiplier, cooking time calculator, meat temperature guide, meal cost calculator, cost per serving

• 17 blog posts covering the most common cooking measurement and temperature questions

• No framework — pure HTML/CSS/JS on GitHub Pages

Week one numbers

• 60 users, mostly direct traffic

• 16 impressions on Google Search Console, average position 54

• 7 pages indexed so far

Early days, but the site is getting crawled and the right keywords are starting to show up.

What's next

Adding 3 blog posts and 1 tool every week. Target is AdSense approval once the content base is solid enough.

Happy to hear any feedback on the tools or content strategy.