Cooking
Cooking Ingredient Converter
Convert common baking ingredients between volume and weight.
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A cup of flour and a cup of sugar are different weights, so a volume converter will lie to you here. Pick the ingredient, then the spoon or cup you measured, then the grams you want.
Kitchen spoons with no ingredient attached belong on the measurement converter. This page is the weight of a named food.
Flour is a spooned cup
All-purpose flour is 120 g per cup. That is a spooned, leveled cup. A scooped packed cup can land nearer 160 g, which is why another chart can disagree and still be describing a real cup.
Sugar, butter, and the rest are fixed
Granulated sugar is 200 g per cup on this page. King Arthur’s chart prints 198 g for the same cup, so the two will not match to the gram. Packed brown sugar is 220 g, butter is 227 g, and the other foods in the menu are fixed the same way.
Worked example: 1 cup of flour and 1 cup of sugar
All-purpose flour, cups to grams, value 1, is 120 g. Switch the ingredient to granulated sugar and the same cup is 200 g.
\[ 1\,\mathrm{cup\ flour}=120\,\mathrm{g} \]
Frequently asked questions
Why does my bag of flour say something else?
Brands print their own cup. This page holds 120 g for a spooned cup of all-purpose flour and does not read your bag.
Is brown sugar the packed cup?
Yes. The menu says packed, and that cup is 220 g.
Can I go from grams back to cups?
Yes. Swap the direction. 120 g of all-purpose flour returns 1 cup.
Does a tablespoon of flour use the same 120 g?
A tablespoon is 1/16 of this cup, so it is 120/16 g. The page does that division.
Is water here the same as a measuring cup of water?
Water is listed at 236.6 g per cup, a kitchen weight. The measurement converter is the milliliter count of the cup itself.
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Assumptions and limitations
Each food has one grams-per-cup figure. A scooped cup, a sifted cup, or another brand chart can disagree. The flour figure is a spooned cup.