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Cooking Converter: Cups to Grams
Convert cups, tablespoons, and teaspoons to grams and back for flour, sugar, butter, milk, rice, and other ingredients, using each ingredient's own weight per cup from the USDA.
Cooking Converter: Cups to Grams: A cup of flour and a cup of sugar weigh different amounts, so converting volume to weight needs the weight of a cup of each ingredient. The converter uses the cup weights in the USDA FoodData Central database and US customary measures: a cup is 236.6 ml, a tablespoon 14.8 ml, and a teaspoon 4.9 ml. Metric cups of 250 ml and Japanese cups of 200 ml are included. Runs 100% locally in your browser with zero server file uploads.
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Spooned into the cup and levelled; scooping packs in more.
125 g
All-purpose flour| Grams | 125 |
|---|---|
| Ounces (weight) | 4.41 |
| Tablespoons | 16 |
| Teaspoons | 48 |
| Millilitres | 237 |
| Metric cups (250 ml) | 0.95 |
| Japanese cups (200 ml) | 1.18 |
Cup weights come from the USDA FoodData Central database (FDC ID 168894). Weighing is more accurate than measuring by volume, especially for flour.
Measuring by volume and by weight
American recipes measure most ingredients by volume, in cups and spoons, while most of the rest of the world weighs them. Volume is quick, but it varies with how the cup is filled: flour settles in the bag, brown sugar can be packed or loose, and chopped nuts leave gaps. Weighing removes that variation, which matters most in baking.
To convert liquids between cups and millilitres without weighing them, the cups to ml converter is simpler, and the grams to ounces converter switches between metric and US weights. For oven settings in another system, use the oven temperature converter.
Small amounts
For spoon-sized amounts of leavening, spices, and salt, a measuring spoon is usually more reliable than a kitchen scale, which may only weigh to the nearest gram. A level US teaspoon of table salt is about 6 g, while the same spoon of flaky salt can weigh less than half that.
How to use it
- Pick the ingredient.
- Enter the amount and its unit, in cups, spoons, millilitres, grams, or ounces.
- Read the same amount in every other unit.
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Frequently asked questions
How many grams is a cup of flour?
About 125 g of all-purpose flour, spooned into the cup and levelled, which is the USDA figure. Scooping the cup through the bag packs in more, up to about 150 g, which is why baking recipes increasingly give weights.
How many grams is a cup of sugar or butter?
A cup of granulated sugar is about 200 g, packed brown sugar about 220 g, and butter about 227 g. A US stick of butter is half a cup, 113 g, or 8 tablespoons.
Is a cup the same everywhere?
No. Recipes from the US use a 236.6 ml cup; Australia, New Zealand, and Canada often use a metric cup of 250 ml; Japan uses 200 ml. A US tablespoon is 14.8 ml, while Australia's is 20 ml.
Why do other charts give different weights?
Weights depend on how an ingredient is measured: sifted or not, spooned or scooped, packed or loose, and on the brand. Charts from baking companies often give lighter flour weights, around 120 g, because they spoon gently. For exact results, weigh.
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