Ingredient Convert MCP server: install, tools and pricing

Ask your assistant how much a cup of flour weighs, how many grams are in three tablespoons of honey, or what half a recipe of something looks like in cups, and get a number that comes from a density table instead of a guess. Cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, millilitres, fluid ounces, grams and ounces convert for 30+ ingredients using per-ingredient grams-per-cup values, so a cup of sugar and a cup of

Category: Cooking and recipes · Tools: 7 · Version: 0.1.0 · Licence: MIT

Install it

  • Hosted endpoint: not open for this server yet - use the .mcpb bundle or build from source below. The other 57 servers in the suite are already hosted.
  • Claude Desktop: build from the repository and add it to claude_desktop_config.json.
  • From source: git clone https://github.com/theluckystrike/mcp-servers then build servers/ingredient-convert.
  • npm: the package @theluckystrike/mcp-ingredient-convert is staged and publishes shortly; the .mcpb bundle is the supported install until then.

Tools it exposes

Tool What it does
convert_ingredient Convert ingredient
list_ingredients List ingredients
scale_recipe see tool reference
convert_bulk Convert bulk
decimal_to_fraction see tool reference
fraction_to_decimal see tool reference
common_conversions see tool reference

Pricing

Free to run locally, forever. The Pro licence is $19, one time, lifetime — it changes only the hosted endpoint’s saved-report cap, never the tools. All 59 servers together are $39 as a bundle instead of $1102 bought one at a time.

Buy the Ingredient Convert Pro licence — $19

Questions people actually ask

Is the Ingredient Convert MCP server free?

Yes. Running Ingredient Convert locally is free and unlimited, and the code is MIT licensed. This server is local-only today, so there is nothing to pay for. No subscription and no account are required.

Does Ingredient Convert need an API key?

No. The server works offline against local files.

Where does the data go?

Local installs keep everything on your machine. The hosted endpoint stores records in an isolated per-tenant namespace, and only for servers you actually call.

Which clients can use it?

Any MCP client: Claude Desktop (via the .mcpb bundle), Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code with an MCP extension, or your own agent over the Streamable HTTP transport.


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