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Kitchen conversions

Cups and spoons to grams by ingredient from a cited density table (with Diamond Crystal, Morton kosher and table salt kept apart), oven temperatures in °C, °F, gas mark and fan, sugar stages, butter sticks, egg sizes in the US, EU/UK and Canada, and pan areas and volumes.

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How to use it

How to use it

Cups ↔ grams — type an amount the way a recipe writes it (2 1/4 cups bread flour, ¾ cup brown sugar, 200 g butter) — the recipe scaler's parser reads it — or pick the amount, unit and ingredient. You get the weight, US volume and metric volume. The density table below lists grams per cup, tablespoon and teaspoon with each figure’s source.

Salt gets special treatment: the same tablespoon is 18 g of table salt, 14.4 g of Morton coarse kosher and 8.4 g of Diamond Crystal kosher, so any amount of salt is shown in all three. A recipe that says just "kosher salt" is ambiguous — Diamond Crystal is assumed, and the page says so.

Oven temperature — enter °C, °F, a gas mark or a fan-oven temperature; see the conventional, fan/convection (about 20 °C or 25 °F lower) and gas-mark equivalents, a gas-mark table and the sugar-syrup stages for candy making.

Butter and eggs — butter between US sticks, tablespoons, cups, grams and 250 g blocks; eggs between countries' sizes (a US recipe’s 3 large eggs made with UK medium eggs), with the weight of beaten egg, whites and yolks.

Pans — the area and brim volume of two pans and their ratio, the closest standard pans, and a link that opens the recipe scaler set to scale a recipe from one pan to the other.

Limits

  • Volume measures are approximate: how a cup is filled changes flour by 20 % or more. The King Arthur figures assume flour spooned into the cup and levelled. Weigh when it matters.

  • Egg sizes are legal minimums; real eggs run heavier. The EU "S" size has no minimum (45 g is assumed).

  • Fan-oven offsets are a convention; some ovens compensate on their own.

  • Scaling whole recipes, and US ↔ metric for a whole recipe, is the recipe scaler's job.

Sources: King Arthur Baking ingredient weight chart; USDA FoodData Central household measures (milk, cream, yogurt, sour cream, rice; egg parts); Morton and Diamond Crystal package labels (salt per ¼ tsp: table 1.5 g, Morton kosher 1.2 g, Diamond Crystal 0.7 g); USDA AMS egg grading (minimum weight per dozen), EU Regulation (EC) No 589/2008, CFIA egg sizes; Exploratorium, The Science of Candy (sugar stages).

Related: recipe scaler, bread and baker’s percentages, brines and cures, unit converter.

Linking to an example

Add the tab after #: ingredient, temperature, butter-eggs or pans.

Parameter Meaning Example

q

An amount and ingredient, as typed

q=1+cup+brown+sugar

amt, unit, ing

The picker: amount, unit (cup, tbsp, tsp, floz, ml, l, g, kg, oz, lb, ukcup, mcup) and ingredient id (ap, bread, sugar, butter, salt-diamond, …)

amt=2&unit=tbsp&ing=salt-morton

t, tu

A temperature and its unit: c, f, gas, fanc

t=4&tu=gas

bq, bu

Butter amount and unit (stick, tbsp, cup, g, oz, block250)

bq=2&bu=stick

en, er, es, mr, ms

Eggs: how many, the recipe’s country (us, eu, ca) and size, yours

en=3&er=us&es=Large&mr=eu&ms=M+(medium)

sa, aa, ba, da / sb, ab, bb, db, pu

Pans A and B: round or rect, width or diameter, length, depth; units in or cm

sa=round&aa=8&sb=rect&ab=9&bb=13

example

One of the presets below

example=kosher-salt
example= Shows

flour-cups

2¼ cups of all-purpose flour: 270 g (open)

kosher-salt

1 tbsp of Diamond Crystal kosher salt — and the same 8.4 g in Morton and table salt (open)

gas-mark-4

Gas mark 4: 350 °F, 177 °C, 157 °C fan (open)

fan-180

180 °C conventional in fan and gas mark (open)

eggs-uk

A US recipe’s 3 large eggs made with UK medium eggs (open)

pan-8-to-9x13

An 8 in round cake pan against a 9 × 13 in tray: × 2.33 (open)

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