HHeritage Kitchen

Kitchen Measurement Converter

Whether you're following an old family recipe, trying a new baking project, or adjusting measurements from another country, a little kitchen math can make cooking easier.

Our Kitchen Measurement Converter helps you quickly convert common cooking measurements, from teaspoons and cups to ounces, grams, and milliliters. Choose an ingredient when converting between weight and volume for a more useful estimate.

Decimals or fractions work, like 1.5, 3/4 or 1 1/2.

Volume and weight depend on the ingredient. Not listed? We don't have a dependable weight for it yet, so we won't guess.

Volume units are US customary (1 cup = 236.6 mL).

Your results

Your Conversion

You have

1 cup

Converted

grams

≈ 120 g

Ingredient

All-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)

This is an approximate weight. How you fill the cup, how packed the ingredient is and the brand can all change the real number.

Kitchen wisdom

Kitchen Know-How

  1. Cups measure space, scales measure weight

    A measuring cup tells you how much room an ingredient takes up; a scale tells you how heavy it is. Both are useful — they simply answer different questions, which is why converting between them needs to know the ingredient.

  2. A cup of flour isn't a cup of sugar

    Flour is light and airy, so a cup weighs about 120 grams. Granulated sugar is denser at about 198 grams, and packed brown sugar is heavier still. The same cup can hold very different weights.

  3. When weighing really helps

    For biscuits, cakes, pie crust and bread, a few extra spoonfuls of flour can make the result dry or tough. Weighing keeps baking consistent from batch to batch, especially when you double a recipe.

  4. Check which units your recipe uses

    US cups, metric cups and imperial measures aren't quite the same size, and an “ounce” can mean weight or fluid volume. Look at where a recipe comes from before you convert it.