What it does
This page lists 54 everyday substitutions for 40 ingredients, each with exact amounts, such as 1 cup milk plus 1 tbsp lemon juice for 1 cup buttermilk. Type what you are missing, say how much the recipe needs, and every amount scales to match.
Each swap is tagged vegan, dairy-free, egg-free or gluten-free where that is true of the swap itself, so you can hide the ones that do not suit you. Once you have your swap, the recipe scaler resizes the whole recipe and cups to grams turns cups into grams.
How to use it
- Type the ingredient you are missing in the search box. Other names work too, such as cornflour, icing sugar, bicarb or double cream.
- Type how much the recipe asks for. The number counts in the unit on each card: cups for buttermilk, eggs for eggs, teaspoons for baking powder.
- Tick a filter if you need one, then read the swap and its tip.
What each setting does
- What are you missing?: searches ingredient names and their other names. Leave it empty to see the whole list.
- How much the recipe asks for: multiplies every amount. 2 doubles it, 0.5 halves it. Amounts are shown as kitchen fractions such as 1½ tsp, and very small amounts as “a pinch”.
- Vegan, Dairy-free, Egg-free, Gluten-free: shows only swaps that carry every ticked tag. An ingredient disappears when none of its swaps fit.
- Clear: empties the search, sets the amount back to 1 and unticks the filters.
Worked example
You need 2 cups of buttermilk. Search “buttermilk”: one ingredient comes up, with two swaps. Type 2 in the amount box and the first swap reads 2 cups milk + 2 tbsp lemon juice or white vinegar. Tick Vegan and only the soy milk swap stays: 2 cups unsweetened soy milk + 2 tbsp lemon juice.
For white sugar, the honey swap (¾ cup honey per cup of sugar, with less liquid and a cooler oven) is hidden by the Vegan filter, leaving coconut sugar.
FAQs
Will the result taste the same? Close, not identical. Many swaps carry a tip on where they work best.
Is “gluten-free” guaranteed? No. Oats, stock, tamari and baking powder can contain gluten or be made alongside it, so check the packet.
Why is honey not vegan? Honey is made by bees, so most vegans avoid it.
Where the numbers come from
- fibub's own list, written from general kitchen knowledge (no table copied). Amounts are rules of thumb; results vary by recipe.
Standard scientific values, such as constants, atomic weights and melting points, are facts found in every textbook; we name where ours were checked. If you are an author or publisher and want a value, a credit or a table changed or removed, tell us and we will act quickly.
Last updated 2026-11-10.