Easy Cooking-Conversion Charts (US/Metric)

Successful baking requires accurate cooking measurements, cooking equivalents, and cooking conversions between metric, imperial, and US cup measures.

The cooking conversion charts show you how to convert metric to standard, how to convert Celcius to Fahrenheit and how many ml are in standard cups.

Plus I’ve got FREE Kitchen Conversion Charts for you to make it all simple.

You may be confused with cooking conversions, temperature conversions, cups, ounces grams, liters, and pints.

Even the names of food change depending on where you are in the world.

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• What this website uses
• Measuring cups, tbsp, and tsp
• US cups to ounces and grams (baking ingredients and dairy)
• How to measure butter
• How to convert egg sizes
• Baking pan conversions
• Cooking conversion charts (printable)
• International food names
• Cooking temperature conversions
• Cooking by weight or volume?
• Measurement abbreviations
• 💬 Comments

What this website uses

These cooking conversion charts are a handy kitchen reference guide. Ditch The Carbs is an international website, so the cooking measurements are a useful tool to convert weight, volume, temperatures, and even ingredient names.

Unless otherwise stated, I use a Standard US Cup which is 240ml, 5ml teaspoon (tsp), and a 15ml tablespoon (tbsp). The chart below shows the conversion from cups, ml, fl. oz, tsp, and tbsp.

The standard metric cup is 250ml, often used in NZ, UK, and CA. But who/where each cup is used is being muddied now with shops importing measuring cups from suppliers around the world.

Measuring cups, tbsp, and tsp

The most common kitchen measuring tools are teaspoons, tablespoons, and cups. It's important that you know what sizes you have and what sizes a recipe uses. Knowing how many ml are in a cup and how many ml are in a tablespoon is imperative.

• A standard tablespoon is 15ml which is 3 teaspoons.
• A standard Australian tablespoon is 20ml, which is 4 teaspoons.

US cups to ounces and grams (baking ingredients and dairy)

These cooking conversion charts make it easy to convert US cups to ounces and grams.

All cooking ingredient conversion charts are as accurate as possible and most recipes on Ditch The Carbs have already been converted for you.

Cooking ingredients conversion charts - US cups to ounces and grams

Now you can easily find how many grams are in a cup of almond flour or how many cups is 50g of cocoa powder.

Ingredient	Cup	Grams	Ounces
Almond flour	¼ cup	25 g	0.9 oz
	½ cup	50 g	1.8 oz
	1 cup	100	3.5 oz
Chocolate chips	¼ cup	35 g	1.2 oz
	½ cup	70 g	2.5 oz
	1 cup	140 g	4.9 oz
Cocoa powder	¼ cup	25 g	0.9 oz
	½ cup	50 g	1.8 oz
	1 cup	100 g	3.5 oz
Coconut (shredded)	¼ cup	25g	0.9 oz
	½ cup	45g	1.6 oz
	1 cup	90g	3.2 oz
Coconut flour	¼ cup	25 g	0.9 oz
	½ cup	50 g	1.8 oz
	1 cup	100 g	3.5 oz
Peanut butter	¼ cup	65 g	2.3 oz
	½ cup	125 g	4.4 oz
	1 cup	250 g	8.8 oz
Sweetener	¼ cup	30 g	1 oz
	½ cup	50 g	1.8 oz
	1 cup	100 g	3.5 oz

Dairy conversion charts - US cups to ounces and grams

How do you measure butter or cheese? Both butter and cheese are easiest to measure by weight (using grams or ounces) but some people prefer to use a cup to measure shredded cheese and in the US, you can measure butter by using sticks of butter that are pre-wrapped and pre-measured portions of butter.

• ½ stick butter = ¼ cup = 47 g = 1.6 oz
• 1 stick of butter = ½ cup = 113 g = 4 oz

Ingredient	Cup	Grams	Ounces
Butter	¼ cup	47 g	1.6 oz
(1 stick of butter)	½ cup	113 g	4 oz
	1 cup	225 g	7.9 oz
Cheese, shredded	¼ cup	35 g	1.2 oz
	½ cup	70 g	2.5 oz
	1 cup	140 g	4.9 oz
Cream cheese	¼ cup	30 g	1 oz
	½ cup	60 g	2.1 oz
	1 cup	120 g	4.2 oz

How to measure butter

How to measure butter using cups, sticks, grams, and ounces is one of the most common baking questions I am asked.

Butter is easiest to measure by weight (using grams or ounces) but some people prefer to measure sticks of butter (that are pre-wrapped and pre-measured portions of butter) or with a tablespoon.

Stick	tablespoon	Cups	Ounces	Grams
½ stick	4 tbsp	¼ cup	2 oz	57 g
1 stick	8 tbsp	½ cup	4 oz	113 g
2 stick	16 tbsp	1 cup	8 oz	227 g
3 sticks	24 tbsp	1.5 cups	12 oz	340 g

Baking pan conversions

How do you convert baking pans? These conversion charts will show you how much each cake tin will hold. You may need to adjust baking times according to the size and depth of your baking pan.

Type of pan	Size (inch)	Size (cm)	Cups	Volume
Round pan	6 x 2	15cm x 5cm	4 cups	950ml
	8 x 2	20cm x 5cm	6 cups	1.4 litres
	9 x 2	23cm x 5cm	8 cups	1.9 litres
Square pan	8 x 8 x 2	20 x 20 x 5	8 cups	1.9 litres
	9 x 8 x 2	23 x 23 x 5	10 cups	2.4 litres
	10 x 8 x 2	25 x 25 x 5	12 cups	2.8 litres
Rectangle	11 x 7 x 2	28 x 18 x 5	6 cups	1.4 litres
	13 x 9 x 2	33 x 25 x 5	14 cups	3.3 litres

Cooking conversion charts (printable)

International food names

It can be confusing to understand the names of food and the names of ingredients from around the world. These foon names, ingredient names, and alternative international names will help your baking success.

Cooking temperature conversions

Unless otherwise stated, my recipes have been created using fan bake (fan-forced) function. If you use regular bake you will need to increase the temperature by 10°C and increase cook time by 10-15 %. Cooking times are a guide only.

Celcius	Fahrenheit
140 C	275 F
160 C	320 F
180 C	350 F
200 C	400 F
220 C	425 F
240 C	475 F

Cooking by weight or volume?

There is an eternal debate over the question is it better to cook by weight or by volume? I tend to use cook by weight because it is more accurate, but I also cook using measuring cups when recipes do not need to be very accurate or there is a large tolerance within the recipe.

Cooking by weight

ADVANTAGES:

• It's accurate
• It's easy to add each ingredient then "tare" or "zero" the electronic scales
• You create less washing up as you use fewer measuring cups and spoons.

Cooking by cups

ADVANTAGES:

• Quick and easy to scoop and measure.

DISADVANTAGES:

• Inaccurate.
• The measured ingredient may be more or less depending on how firmly you pack the cup or how loosely you scoop the ingredients.

Measurement abbreviations

Standard/Imperial Measurement Abbreviations

tbsp = tablespoon (also TB, Tbl)
tsp = teaspoon
oz = ounce
fl. Oz = fluid ounce
c = cup
qt = quart
pt = pint
gal = gallon
lb = pound

Metric Measurement Abbreviations

ml = milliliter
g = grams
kg = kilogram
L = litre

Liquid Measurements Conversion Chart

8 fluid ounces = 1 cup = ½ pint = ¼ quart
16 fluid ounces = 2 cups = 1 pint = ½ quart
32 fluid ounces = 4 cups = 2 pints = 1 quart = ¼ gallon
128 fluid ounces = 16 cups = 8 pints = 4 quarts = 1 gallon

Butter

1 cup butter = 2 sticks = 8 ounces = 230 grams = 8 tablespoons

US to Metric Cooking Conversions

Liquids

⅕ teaspoon = 1 ml
1 teaspoon = 5 ml
1 tablespoon = 15 ml
1 fl ounce = 30 ml
1 cup = 237 ml
1 pint (2 cups) = 473 ml
1 quart (4 cups) = .95 liter
1 gallon (16 cups) = 3.8 liters
1 oz = 28 grams
1 pound = 454 grams

Weight

1 gram = .035 ounces
100 grams = 3.5 ounces
500 grams = 1.1 pounds
1 kilogram = 35 ounces