Hi, I'm Paolo — I built Matcha Ratio.
A small, independently run site for one specific problem: getting a consistently good bowl of matcha without guesswork.
Why this exists
I made a lot of bad matcha before I made good matcha. Most recipes I found online said things like "a teaspoon of matcha and a splash of hot water," which sounds simple until you realize a teaspoon is a wildly imprecise unit for a powder this fine, and "a splash" tells you nothing about a 60 ml usucha bowl versus a 240 ml iced glass. I kept getting bowls that were either too thin and grassy or so strong they were undrinkably bitter, and I couldn't tell whether the problem was my ratio, my water temperature, or the tea itself.
Once I started actually measuring — powder by weight, water by volume, temperature with a thermometer — the pattern became obvious pretty quickly, and it scales cleanly with bowl size and prep style. So I built a calculator that does the scaling for me, added a whisking timer because timing matters almost as much as ratio, and wrote up the four main preparations (usucha, koicha, matcha latte, iced matcha) as proper guides instead of one-line tips.
What's on the site
The calculator is the core of the site: pick a bowl size, a preparation style, and a strength, and it outputs matcha, water, milk, and temperature — in ml or grams, °C or °F. Alongside it are in-depth guides for each preparation, plus articles on matcha grades, how matcha compares to green tea, and how to keep matcha fresh once you've opened the tin. Everything is written from hands-on trial and error, cross-checked against how these preparations are traditionally taught, rather than spun or auto-generated.
How the site is run
Matcha Ratio is a solo, independent project — it isn't affiliated with or sponsored by any matcha brand. It's free to use, with no account or sign-up required, and it doesn't collect anything you type into the calculator. A couple of small ads and an optional Ko-fi tip jar cover hosting; details on what data is and isn't collected live on the privacy policy. If something on the site is wrong, confusing, or missing, I'd genuinely like to know — the contact page has the details.