Cooking conversions Article by: Allrecipes staff Picture by: Allrecipes. Reviews 28 Comments 25 Print friendly. Use this helpful guide to find baking and cooking conversions between metric, imperial and US cup measures. Convert carefully. For most home cooks, an extra gram or two of an ingredient won't make much of a difference. Once you start working with larger quantities, however, precision counts: an incorrect measurement can throw off a ratio and ruin a recipe.
Proper ingredient measurements are especially important in baking. If you're working with larger quantities, especially in baking, seek out a precise conversion tool on the internet, or use a search engine to convert between metric and imperial. Ever stop to wonder about teaspoons, dessertspoons and tablespoons?
The official size of a US cup is This isn't a huge problem as long as you know which you own. A bigger problem is that not all cups sold are hugely accurate. I own two sets of measuring cups, and neither holds the amount they're supposed to. If you've got a recipe such as scones or shortcrust pastry that need cold butter straight from the fridge, how do you get it into the cup to measure it?
Imagine measuring walnuts. If you put them into a cup whole, you're going to fit in a lot less than if you finely chop them before adding them to the cup.
There are also some ingredients such as Nutella or Black Treacle that are tricky to remove from the cup after filling. It's unlikely that you'll get everything out that you put in so you may well end up adding less to your mixture than the recipe calls for.
Many sets of scales have a tare button which allows you to rest the scales to 0 so you can keep measuring more ingredients into one bowl. The is great as it means you can pour in everything you need for your mixture without getting lots of extra measuring utensils dirty.
Imagine you've got a recipe that calls for a cup of butter, flour, maple syrup and Nutella not too sure what you'd be making! To get an accurate measurement, you'll need to either own lots of cups or wash the cup up between each ingredient before you can measure the next one.
A scant cup is just under a cup. Wow, thanks Christine for taking your time to share all this! It's very detailed. I also highly recommend people to buy a digital scale, especially if you're serious about baking. I wasn't sure if I needed one, but now it's so easy to measure things out and I can also use lots of recipes that I see on peoples' blogs.
However, if you don't have a scale, this website will also help you. Thanks Christine for this great write out. I feel that one should invest in an electric scale too if one wants to avoid disaster in cooking or baking. To me a measuring cup is just as important a tool as an electric scale. A must have items in my kitchen. Conversion is never accurate. Bottom line is: one cannot be a serious baker without a scale. I'm not joking here, the cups system is good for cooking stews and soups, bakery is more like pharmacy!
Thanks to all for your precious inputs! I believe many of my readers know there are heaps of conversion tables online. What I'm trying to make a point on my post here is that even though we have a great, accurate conversion table, we're still risking at not getting the right amount of flour with a cup!
Take an example, if a recipe calls for grams of plain flour, then you refer to a conversion table saying it's about 2. But, after scooping out the 2. I have a cups to grams calculator that I use Excellent resource!
Since moving to Manila, I've had to brush up on the metric system. I particularly like the fact that you broke this down by specific ingredient - after all, volume measurement i.
I am now definitely being 'converted' to using a digital scale and weighing my measurements as much as possible. You're such a great teacher!!!
I usually prefer baking recipes especially for bread with grams as it is more accurate. Christine, you are so right Depending where you live the humidity does make a difference as well Hope you have a wonderful week ahead Christine, how helpful and meticulous of you. A very useful post indeed. This is really useful, I find it so confusing when i am trying to convert recipes.
Also, I never knew what size a cup was before, so i could never work out if i was using one that was too big or too small. How can i give money to support Japan?
I am so unhappy about what happened in Japan with the earthquake and tsunami and I genuinely wish to assist them by simply donation. What a thorough conversion table!
Which cup are you refering to in your tables? Please note the weight of eggs depends on the grade-A,B, or C! Cenk, harika bir calisma, tesekkur ederim, cok ama cok faydasini goruyorum. Bundan boyle, daha keyifli ve hatasiz, olcumlerle fazla ugrasmadan yani vakit kaybetmeden tarifler yapabilecegim. Uzerinde calistigin kitap hakkkinda bilgi verebilir misin lutfen. Sevgiler Cigdem Kennedy. I am new to a professional kitchen and along with that high altitude. I have never baked using grams.
Your site is very helpful to convert my old recipes from cup volume to grams. Thank you so much. I came across your site by chance. I was looking forconversion table. Is generic for all countries or is this only for particular countries? If any ideas please. Wassy — These conversions are for US cups, tablespoons and teaspoons; ml, 15 ml, and 5 ml, respectively.
I have a recipie that calls for grams of whipping powder. If i wanted to use whipping cream instead, how much whipping cream should i use to equal out to grams? Thanks Sharon.
THE most insanely complete conversion chart ever produced. This is Nobel Peace Prize winning material! Your site is the only one that has the correct answer and bonus points for including a note about how the flour is measured also affects results! I will definitely be coming back to your site and visiting around. If you have a recipe for Turkish bread, I will be a fan for life. Thank you so much! Thanks for the lovely words. I do have a recipe for simit —not exactly bread, but it is the closest recipe in my blog.
Thanks so much for this super helpful conversion chart. Stumbled across it today while baking and needed to convert an ingredient.
Thanks again! Hallo there, can you please help me with a convertion for gram milkpowder for 1 liter water. My measure cup has flower and sugar marked. I figure I must use the flower measurement? The milkpowder is for baby lambs. Dev hizmet dedikleri bu olsa gerek.
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