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Cups to milliliters, ounces to grams, Fahrenheit to Celsius and gas marks: type an amount, pick its unit, and see it in every other unit of the same kind. Charts for the usual questions are below.
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Conversion charts
Cooking conversion charts
US cups and spoons, metric volumes, weights and oven temperatures. Spoon and cup amounts are shown as the fractions on measuring cups where they're exact.
Cups to tablespoons, fluid ounces and milliliters
| Cups | Tablespoons | Fluid ounces | Milliliters |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⅛ cup | 2 | 1 | 29.6 |
| ¼ cup | 4 | 2 | 59.1 |
| ⅓ cup | 5 ⅓ | 2 ⅔ | 78.9 |
| ½ cup | 8 | 4 | 118 |
| ⅔ cup | 10 ⅔ | 5 ⅓ | 158 |
| ¾ cup | 12 | 6 | 177 |
| 1 cup | 16 | 8 | 237 |
| 1 ½ cups | 24 | 12 | 355 |
| 2 cups | 32 | 16 | 473 |
| 3 cups | 48 | 24 | 710 |
| 4 cups | 64 | 32 | 946 |
Teaspoons and tablespoons
A tablespoon is 3 teaspoons, and a cup is 16 tablespoons.
| Measure | Teaspoons | Tablespoons | Milliliters |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⅛ tsp | ⅛ | 0.0417 | 0.616 |
| ¼ tsp | ¼ | 0.0833 | 1.23 |
| ½ tsp | ½ | ⅙ | 2.46 |
| 1 tsp | 1 | ⅓ | 4.93 |
| ½ tbsp | 1 ½ | ½ | 7.39 |
| 1 tbsp | 3 | 1 | 14.8 |
| 2 tbsp | 6 | 2 | 29.6 |
| 3 tbsp | 9 | 3 | 44.4 |
Pints, quarts and liters
| Measure | Cups | Fluid ounces | Milliliters |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 pint | 2 | 16 | 473 |
| 1 quart | 4 | 32 | 946 |
| 250 ml | 1.06 | 8.45 | 250 |
| 500 ml | 2.11 | 16.9 | 500 |
| 1 l | 4.23 | 33.8 | 1,000 |
Ounces and pounds to grams
| Weight | Grams |
|---|---|
| ½ oz | 14.2 |
| 1 oz | 28.3 |
| 2 oz | 56.7 |
| 4 oz | 113 |
| 8 oz | 227 |
| 12 oz | 340 |
| 1 lb | 454 |
| 1 ½ lb | 680 |
| 2 lb | 907 |
Grams to ounces and pounds
| Weight | Ounces | Pounds |
|---|---|---|
| 25 g | 0.882 | 0.0551 |
| 50 g | 1.76 | 0.11 |
| 100 g | 3.53 | 0.22 |
| 125 g | 4.41 | 0.276 |
| 200 g | 7.05 | 0.441 |
| 250 g | 8.82 | 0.551 |
| 500 g | 17.6 | 1.1 |
| 1 kg | 35.3 | 2.2 |
Oven temperatures
Celsius is shown to the degree and rounded to the nearest 10, the way most recipes write it. Gas mark 1 is 275 °F and each mark adds 25 °F; mark ½ is 250 °F and mark ¼ is 225 °F.
For a fan (convection) oven, many recipes suggest setting it about 20 °C (25 °F) lower.
Fahrenheit to Celsius and gas mark
| Fahrenheit | Celsius | Celsius, rounded | Gas mark |
|---|---|---|---|
| 225 °F | 107 °C | 110 °C | ¼ |
| 250 °F | 121 °C | 120 °C | ½ |
| 275 °F | 135 °C | 140 °C | 1 |
| 300 °F | 149 °C | 150 °C | 2 |
| 325 °F | 163 °C | 160 °C | 3 |
| 350 °F | 177 °C | 180 °C | 4 |
| 375 °F | 191 °C | 190 °C | 5 |
| 400 °F | 204 °C | 200 °C | 6 |
| 425 °F | 218 °C | 220 °C | 7 |
| 450 °F | 232 °C | 230 °C | 8 |
| 475 °F | 246 °C | 250 °C | 9 |
| 500 °F | 260 °C | 260 °C | — |
About these numbers
US measures, rounded for the kitchen.
- Cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, fluid ounces, pints and quarts are US customary measures: 1 cup is 236.588 ml, 1 tablespoon 14.787 ml and 1 teaspoon 4.929 ml.
- Recipes from the UK or Australia may use a 250 ml metric cup, an Australian tablespoon holds 20 ml, and a UK (imperial) pint is 568 ml. This converter uses US measures only.
- Ounces and pounds are weights: 1 ounce is 28.3495 g and 1 pound 453.59 g. Fluid ounces measure volume.
- There's no cups-to-grams conversion here: how much a cup weighs depends on the ingredient (a cup of flour weighs much less than a cup of sugar), so volumes convert only to volumes and weights only to weights.
- Results are rounded: whole numbers from 100, one decimal from 10, two from 1 and three significant digits below 1. Cups, spoons and ounces also show the nearest measuring-cup fraction.
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