🍳Cooking Converter

A reliable cooking converter saves time, reduces waste, and keeps your recipes consistent. Whether you need to convert cups to tablespoons and teaspoons, switch between grams and fluid ounces, or adapt a metric recipe to US measurements, a cooking measurement converter that accounts for ingredient density gives you accurate results every time. Volume units like cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, and milliliters stay constant regardless of what you measure, but weight units like grams and ounces change with every ingredient because density varies so widely across foods.

Convert Cups to Tablespoons and Teaspoons Calculator

The US volume measurement system follows a simple hierarchy that applies universally across wet and dry ingredients when measuring by volume. One cup equals 16 tablespoons, and one tablespoon equals 3 teaspoons, which means one cup contains exactly 48 teaspoons. One tablespoon is approximately 14.8 milliliters, and one teaspoon is approximately 4.9 milliliters. These conversions between cups, tablespoons, and teaspoons are fixed ratios that apply to any ingredient because they measure volume, not mass.

Baking Measurement Converter: Grams to Cups

Converting baking measurements from grams to cups is where ingredient-specific density becomes critical. One cup of all-purpose flour weighs approximately 120 grams when measured using the spoon-and-level method, while one cup of granulated sugar weighs about 200 grams, one cup of butter weighs 227 grams, and one cup of honey weighs 340 grams. Using a single conversion factor across different ingredients would introduce significant errors into your baking.

Why Liquids Get Milliliter and Fluid Ounce Options

Liquid ingredients — water, milk, cream, oils, honey, maple syrup — can be accurately measured in milliliters and liters because volume-to-volume conversion is exact for liquids. Dry ingredients like flour and sugar are not typically measured in milliliters in any cooking tradition, so this converter only offers milliliter and fluid ounce options where they make practical sense. Butter additionally supports US sticks: one stick equals 113.4 grams, half a cup, or 8 tablespoons.

Cooking Unit Conversion Chart: Key Reference Values

• 1 cup all-purpose flour = 120 g = 16 tbsp
• 1 cup granulated sugar = 200 g = 48 tsp
• 1 cup packed brown sugar = 220 g
• 1 cup butter = 227 g = 2 sticks
• 1 cup whole milk = 244 g ≈ 237 ml
• 1 cup honey = 340 g
• 1 US stick of butter = 113.4 g = 8 tbsp = ½ cup
• 1 fluid ounce = 29.57 ml = 2 tbsp
• 1 teaspoon ≈ 5 ml

How to Scale a Recipe Up or Down

Recipe scaling works by multiplying every ingredient amount by the same scaling factor. To scale a recipe from 4 servings to 10 servings, multiply each ingredient by 2.5. Using gram measurements makes this arithmetic far simpler than working in cups and fractions, which is another reason weight-based baking conversion is preferred by professionals.