🔁 Cooking Unit Converter
Convert between teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, millilitres, and fluid ounces — or grams, ounces, and pounds — and cross cups to grams for common ingredients using real densities.
⚖️ Convert Your Measurements
What is a Cooking Unit Converter?
It handles the everyday measurement swaps that recipes demand: spoons to millilitres, cups to fluid ounces, ounces to grams, and — with an ingredient chosen — volume straight to weight. No conversion chart taped inside the cupboard, no arithmetic mid-recipe.
Use it to cook a metric recipe with imperial measures, weigh out what a recipe lists in cups, or scale a shopping quantity. For volume-to-weight it applies real ingredient densities, so a cup of flour and a cup of water convert to their true, different weights.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How does the cooking unit converter work?
Volume units (teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, millilitres, fluid ounces) convert through a canonical millilitre table, and weights (grams, ounces, pounds) through grams. To cross between the two — say cups to grams — pick an ingredient so it can apply that ingredient's density.
Why do I need to choose an ingredient to convert cups to grams?
Because volume and weight aren't interchangeable without knowing what you're measuring. A cup of water weighs about 237 g, but a cup of flour only about 125 g and a cup of sugar around 201 g. The converter uses each ingredient's density (grams per millilitre) to make the crossover accurate.
Is a US cup the same as a metric cup?
Not exactly. This tool uses the US customary cup of about 236.6 ml. A metric cup is 250 ml and an Australian cup is also 250 ml, so if your recipe is metric, expect a small difference. For baking precision, weighing ingredients in grams avoids the ambiguity entirely.
Which ingredient densities does it use?
It ships with four common ones: water at 1.0 g/ml, all-purpose flour at 0.53, granulated sugar at 0.85, and butter at 0.911. These are typical values — flour especially varies with how it's scooped and settled — so treat weight conversions as close estimates, and weigh directly when accuracy matters.