📌 Overview

Convert cooking measurements between cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, millilitres, grams and ounces — with ingredient-specific density for accurate weight conversion.

🥄 Cooking Measurement Converter

Convert cooking measurements between cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, millilitres, grams and ounces — with ingredient-specific density for accurate weight conversion.

Amount

Unit

Ingredient (for weight ↔ volume)

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📋 How to Use

Enter the amount from your recipe.
Choose the unit it uses.
Pick the ingredient (density matters for weight).
Read the equivalent in every other unit.

❓ FAQ

Why does 1 cup of flour differ from 1 cup of sugar in grams?

Cups measure volume, grams measure weight. Flour is light and airy (about 125g per cup) while granulated sugar is denser (about 200g per cup).

Should I use cups or a scale for baking?

A kitchen scale is far more reliable. Scooping flour can vary by 20% depending on how packed it is, which is enough to change the texture of a cake.

❓ More Questions

Why do 1 cup of flour and 1 cup of sugar weigh differently?

A cup is a volume unit, a gram is weight. Flour is fluffy (about 125 g/cup) while white sugar is dense (about 200 g/cup), so the same volume weighs very differently.

Should I use a measuring cup or a digital scale for baking?

Strongly prefer a digital scale. How tightly you scoop flour can vary the weight by 20%, enough to change a cake's texture and success.

💡 Use Cases

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Baking

Convert US recipes to grams.

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Foreign Recipes

Handle cups when you only own scales.

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Scaling

Adjust batch sizes accurately.

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📖 Deep Dive: Cooking Measurement Converter

Volume vs weight, fundamentally

Western recipes use volume units like the cup, while Chinese recipes and professional baking use weight in grams. There is no fixed conversion between them - you must know the ingredient's density.

Common ingredient conversions (1 US cup = 236.6 mL)

Water: about 237 g

All-purpose flour: about 125 g

White sugar: about 200 g

Brown sugar (packed): about 220 g

Butter: about 227 g

Milk: about 245 g

Rice (raw): about 185 g

Standard spoon measures

1 tablespoon (tbsp) = 15 mL = 3 teaspoons

1 teaspoon (tsp) = 5 mL

1 US cup = 16 tablespoons = 236.6 mL

Imperial cup = 250 mL, Australian tablespoon = 20 mL; watch out in cross-country recipes

Why pros use weight only

Flour's bulk density depends heavily on how it is packed: scooping directly can hold over 20% more than loosening then leveling. In bread and cake making that error is enough to ruin the result, so professional recipes always use grams.