Cooking Conversion
Cups → mL, tablespoons → ounces, and volume → grams for common ingredients (because 1 cup flour ≠ 1 cup sugar).
Result
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Why volume ≠ weight for cooking
Recipes from different countries (and different decades) measure differently:
- US recipes typically use volume — cups, tablespoons, ounces (fluid).
- European recipes typically use weight — grams of flour, ml of liquid.
- British recipes mix both, with their own gallon/pint/cup definitions that differ from US.
1 cup of flour and 1 cup of sugar have the same volume (236 mL) but different weights — flour is fluffier (~125g/cup), sugar packs denser (~200g/cup). That's why baking by weight is more reproducible than by volume.
Density notes
The ingredient densities here are USDA reference values, but real bags vary 5–10% with how packed/sifted they are. For critical baking, use a scale — these conversions are most useful for "I want to scale this recipe up" not "I want to win a baking competition."