Cooking Conversions

Cooking Conversions

• 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.

• Volume When measuring liquid, cooking measurements are quite straightforward:

Cooking Conversions

• Weight

Check this chart for basic imperial to metric conversions

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• Spoons!

Ever stop to wonder about teaspoons, dessertspoons, and tablespoons? Here are their metric equivalents. But first:

• 1 dessertspoon = 2 teaspoons

• 3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon

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• Also, know that tablespoons can be easily used to convert dry (and wet) ingredients to/from US cups. Here's a simple conversion chart:

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• Weight of common ingredients

Found a recipe in US cups? Keep in mind, a cup of butter weighs much more than a cup of flour! Use this chart to convert common ingredients between cups, metric and imperial:

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Cooking Conversions

• Quick conversions

For other common ingredients, here are some quick conversions from US cups to metric:

• 1 cup chocolate chips = 150 g

• 1 cup cocoa powder = 125 g

• 1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans = 125 g

• 1 cup walnut or pecan halves = 100 g

• 1 cup desiccated coconut = 75 g

• 1 tablespoon baking powder = 15 g

• 1 tablespoon salt = 18 g

• 1 cup grated Cheddar cheese = 120 g

• 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese = 80 g

• 1 cup dried breadcrumbs = 120 g

• 1 cup couscous = 175 g

• 1 cup lentils = 190 g

• 1 cup sultanas or raisins = 170 g

Crystal sugar:

• Flat spoon — 12 gr

• Full spoon — 25 grams

• Flat teaspoon — 4 grams

• Full teaspoon — 8 grams

Powder sugar:

• Flat spoon — 15 grams

• Full spoon — 30 grams

• Flat teaspoon — 5 grams

• Full teaspoon — 10 grams

Flour:

• Flat spoon — 12 grams

• Full spoon — 20 grams

• Flat teaspoon — 3 grams

• Full teaspoon — 7 grams

Grits:

• Flat spoon — 10 grams

• Full spoon — 22 grams

• Flat teaspoon — 3 grams

• Full teaspoon — 7 grams

Rice:

• Flat spoon — 15 grams

• Full spoon — 30 grams

• Flat teaspoon — 3 grams

• Full teaspoon — 5 grams

Milk or water:

• Spoon — 15 ml

• Large glass — 100 ml

• Cup — 250 ml

• Cup — 50 ml

Spices:

• Spoon density — 2 grams

• Spoon: baking powder or

• gelatin powder — 3 grams

• A teaspoon of salt or a teaspoon of milk in

• powder or sugar cube — 5 grams

• A teaspoon of ground coffee — 6 grams

Vegetables:

• Medium-sized tomato — 100 grams

• Medium-sized carrot — 100 grams

• Medium-sized potatoes — 90 grams

• Onion head of medium size — 90 grams

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