Cooking Measurement Converter

About Cooking measurement converter

Converts recipe measurements two ways: volume to volume between teaspoons, tablespoons, fluid ounces, cups, pints, quarts, gallons, milliliters and liters, and volume to weight for 22 common ingredients. A system selector matters because a cup is not the same size everywhere.

How to use it

1. Choose a Measurement system at the top: US customary, US legal, Metric or Imperial (UK).
2. On the Volume → volume tab, enter an Amount and pick From and To units.
3. For weight, open the Volume ↔ weight tab, choose Volume → weight or Weight → volume, pick an Ingredient and enter an amount.
4. Read the answer in grams with ounces and pounds beside it, and use Copy result to keep it.

Flour by cup and by weight

1 cup of all-purpose flour (US customary)

125 g. In the other direction, 500 g of the same flour is 4 US cups.

When to use it

• Adapting an American baking recipe for a kitchen scale that reads in grams.
• Reading a British recipe that uses 284 mL cups and 17.8 mL tablespoons.
• Working out how many grams of honey or butter a cup of it contains.
• Scaling a recipe when only a quarter of a cup or a spoon is left.

Questions about Cooking measurement converter

How different are the cups?

A US customary cup is 236.588 mL, a US legal cup 240 mL, a metric cup 250 mL and an imperial cup 284.131 mL. Choosing the wrong system can change quantities by up to about 20 percent.

Why do cups of different foods weigh so differently?

Density varies. A cup of honey is around 340 g while a cup of flour is around 125 g. That is why the tool asks for an ingredient before converting volume into weight.

How accurate is the flour figure?

It assumes flour spooned into the cup and leveled. Scooped straight from the bag it packs down to roughly 145 g, so weighing is more reliable than cups for baking.

Does the tool cover Australian tablespoons?

No. It notes that an Australian tablespoon is 20 mL, which none of the four systems here use.

Are the results shown as fractions?

For cups, tablespoons and teaspoons, values close to a kitchen fraction such as 1/3 or 3/4 are shown that way. Other units appear as decimals.

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