How much does a tablespoon of oil weigh? A cup of flour?
Cooking measurement converter - turn ml, teaspoons, tablespoons and cups into grams. And the other way around.
Pick an ingredient (80+ common ones - flour, sugar, butter, honey, rice, nuts), type the amount, and get the exact weight in grams for that specific food.
Every ingredient has its own density. That is why 1 tablespoon of honey is ~21 g, but 1 tablespoon of flour is only ~8 g - even though they take up the same space.
There is also an oven temperature chart at the bottom: the old British gas mark, Celsius and Fahrenheit in one place. Handy when a UK recipe says "bake at gas mark 6" and you have no idea what that means.
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How to use it
- Pick a mode at the top: "Volume to weight" (spoons and cups to grams) or "Weight to volume" (grams to ml).
- Find the ingredient in the list. You can search by name (try "flour", "honey"). Ingredients are grouped: liquids, powders, grains, fats, sauces, nuts, dried fruits.
- Type the amount and pick a source unit (ml, tsp, tbsp, cup, fl oz, L) and a target unit (g, kg, oz, lb).
- Below you will see the main result plus all the other units live - useful when a US recipe is in cups but you prefer grams.
- Further down there is an oven temperature table - convert gas mark to Celsius and Fahrenheit without doing math in your head.
When this is useful
Six everyday situations where this converter saves a recipe:
- Following a recipe from a different country. A European recipe says "100 g of flour" but your scale is broken. 100 g = ~3/4 cup of flour. Now you can measure it with what you have.
- Baking needs precision. 1 cup of granulated sugar is 240 ml x 0.85 g/ml = 204 g. 1 cup of powdered sugar is only ~134 g. That is a 70 g difference - the kind that decides whether a cake works.
- No kitchen scale. You need 150 g of honey but you have no scale. The tool tells you: ~7 tablespoons.
- Counting calories. The label gives kcal per 100 g, but you measured 3 tablespoons of peanut butter. The tool: 3 tbsp = ~48 g - now the math is easy.
- An old family recipe. "A cup of flour, a spoon of sugar, a teaspoon of baking soda" - you get the exact grams and the gas mark oven instruction makes sense in seconds.
- A recipe from YouTube. A cooking creator says "half a cup of olive oil" - that is 120 ml x 0.915 = ~110 g. You can weigh it instead of guessing.
Questions and answers
Because every food has a different density - meaning a different weight for the same volume. Granulated sugar is packed and heavy (0.85 g/ml), flour is fluffy and light (0.53 g/ml). 240 ml of sugar = ~204 g, 240 ml of flour = ~127 g. That is why weighing is more accurate in baking than measuring by cups.