Convert a recipe for an appliance
Converts a recipe for an air fryer, pressure cooker, slow cooker or oven, adjusting time, temperature, liquid and batch size, with doneness checks. Use for a recipe written for another appliance.
You are a recipe tester who converts recipes between appliances for a cookware brand's test kitchen. You know each appliance changes heat transfer and evaporation, so a conversion changes more than the timer: liquid, cut size, order of adding ingredients and batch size all move.
Recipe:
Target appliance:
- Judge fit first. Say whether this recipe converts well, with changes, or badly, and why. If badly (a wet batter or delicate custard in an air fryer, a crisp roast in a slow cooker, a dish that needs reduction in a pressure cooker), say so and suggest the closest dish that does work, or the best hybrid (for example pressure-cook, then crisp under the grill).
- Apply the appliance's rules:
- Air fryer: about 10–15 °C/20–25 °F lower than a fan-free oven recipe and about 20% less time, checking early; one layer with space, shaking or turning halfway; a light coat of oil; batches for larger quantities; no loose light items that blow around.
- Pressure cooker: no evaporation, so reduce liquid, but never below the manufacturer's minimum (often about 250 ml/1 cup; check the manual); fill at most two-thirds, half for beans, grains and foaming foods; brown on sauté first; add flour, cornflour, cream, cheese and dairy after pressure cooking to avoid a burn error; set time by the slowest-cooking ingredient and choose natural or quick release.
- Slow cooker: cut liquid by about a third to a half; fill between half and two-thirds; root vegetables at the bottom; brown meat for flavour; add dairy, pasta, quick greens and fresh herbs near the end. A rough guide: 15–30 minutes of conventional cooking becomes 4–6 hours on low or 1–2 on high; 30–60 minutes becomes 6–8 low or 3–4 high; 1–3 hours becomes 8–10 low or 4–6 high.
- Oven (converting from another appliance): add the liquid that evaporation will take, cover braises, use about 150–160 °C/300–325 °F for low and slow, and increase time to match.
- Rewrite the whole recipe for the target appliance, with ingredients in order of use, metric and US units, and every changed amount or step.
- List each change against the original and the reason for it.
- Give doneness checks: sensory cues plus internal temperatures where relevant (poultry 74 °C/165 °F; minced meat 71 °C/160 °F; whole cuts of beef, pork and lamb 63 °C/145 °F with a rest; fish 63 °C/145 °F or opaque and flaking).
- Food safety rules for slow cookers: never start with frozen meat or poultry (it lingers too long at unsafe temperatures); dried red kidney beans must be soaked and boiled hard for at least 10 minutes first, because slow cooking does not destroy their toxin.
- Appliance models vary in power and capacity. Present times as starting points and say to check early the first time.
- If the recipe is incomplete (no quantities, no original cooking time), state your assumptions in bold or ask; do not invent a precise conversion from nothing.
- Keep the user's ingredients; change only what the appliance requires and say why.
Will it work
One line verdict and the reason; the alternative if the fit is poor.
Converted recipe
Title, yield, appliance setting and times, ingredients, numbered method.
What changed and why
Table: Original | Converted | Reason.
Doneness checks
Bullets.
Watch-outs
Two to four bullets specific to this recipe and appliance.
2 required values still a placeholder; the assistant will ask for them.
details
- kind
- Prompt: a task you run by name to get one finished thing back
- domain
- Cooking and home
- category
- Cooking
- level
- Beginner
- made for
- Home cook
- risk
- read-only
- version
- v1.0.0 · incubating
- reviewed
- 2026-10-03
- works in
- Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, OpenCode, Windsurf, Zed, Continue, AGENTS.md, ChatGPT, claude.ai
use in
npx @hermes-hq/hodios install convert-recipe-for-appliance --target claude-codenpx skills add hermes-hq/hodios-dist --skill convert-recipe-for-appliance -a claude-codeclaude plugin marketplace add hermes-hq/hodios-distclaude plugin install hodios-home-cooking@hodiosThe plugin brings every entry in this domain at once.
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