Kitchen Conversions
Cups measure volume and recipes increasingly give weight, so converting between them means knowing how heavy each ingredient is. Every converter here uses the USDA's weight for a level US cup of the specific ingredient, not a single average, and rounds to the measures you actually own.
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- Grams to CupsGrams to US cups for 19 ingredients, with the nearest real measure.
- Cups to GramsUS cups (including fractions) to grams, by ingredient.
- Flour in GramsHow much a cup of all-purpose, bread and whole wheat flour weighs.
- Sugar in GramsGranulated, brown and powdered sugar by the cup and by weight.
Quick reference
- 1 US cup = 16 tablespoons = 48 teaspoons = 8 US fluid ounces = 236.6 mL
- 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons = 14.8 mL
- 1 stick of US butter = 1/2 cup = 8 tablespoons = 113 g
- 1 cup of water weighs about 237 g; 1 mL of water weighs about 1 g
The metric cup used in Australia, New Zealand and Canada is 250 mL, about 6% more than a US cup. If a recipe comes from one of those countries, its cups hold a little more.