Cooking & Food Converter
Convert recipe measurements: cups, grams, milliliters, tablespoons, ounces, and pounds. Ingredient-aware where density matters, so results are useful for real recipes rather than misleading averages.
Common Cooking Conversions
Cups to Grams
Ingredient-aware — choose flour, sugar, butter, or another common ingredient.
Cups to Milliliters
Exact: 1 US cup = 236.5882365 mL.
Tablespoons to Milliliters
Exact: 1 US tbsp = 14.78676478125 mL.
Tablespoons to Teaspoons
Exactly 3 teaspoons per tablespoon.
Ounces to Grams
Exact: 1 oz = 28.349523125 g.
Pounds to Kilograms
Exact: 1 lb = 0.45359237 kg.
Butter Measurement
Sticks, cups, grams, tablespoons.
Flour Measurement
Cups, grams, ounces for all-purpose, bread, and cake flour.
Sugar Measurement
Granulated, brown, and powdered sugar.
Cooking Temperature
°C ↔ °F with oven and doneness references.
Why Cooking Conversions Are Tricky
Most unit conversions depend on nothing but fixed ratios. Cooking conversions are different: a cup of flour does not weigh the same as a cup of water, or a cup of sugar, or a cup of honey. Density is ingredient-specific, and the amount depends on how the ingredient is packed into the cup.
Common ingredient densities (grams per US cup)
| Ingredient | Grams per US cup | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Water | 236.6 | Exact (density 1 g/mL at 4 °C) |
| All-purpose flour | 125 | Spooned and leveled |
| Bread flour | 127 | Spooned and leveled |
| Cake flour | 114 | Sifted |
| Granulated sugar | 200 | Scooped and leveled |
| Brown sugar (packed) | 220 | Firmly packed |
| Powdered sugar | 120 | Unsifted |
| Butter | 227 | 1 US stick = 113 g = 1/2 cup |
| Honey | 340 | Very dense |
| Rolled oats | 90 | Dry |
| Rice (uncooked) | 185 | Long grain |
| Cocoa powder | 85 | Unsifted |
Volume vs weight
Professional bakers almost always weigh ingredients. Volume measurement is sensitive to humidity, packing, and the shape of the measuring cup. If you can, use a kitchen scale for baking — the improvement in consistency is significant.
US vs metric cups
A US legal cup is 236.5882365 mL. A metric cup (used in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand) is 250 mL. An older US "customary" cup is 236.5882365 mL — the same as the legal cup. If a recipe specifies "a cup" without a country, the US value is the most common default; check the recipe's origin.