⚖️ Cooking Measurement Converter
Convert grams, cups, millilitres, and ounces for common cooking ingredients — the converter accounts for each ingredient’s density.
⚖️ Converted Amount
Weight (grams/ounces) depends on the ingredient’s density — that’s why 1 cup of flour weighs far less than 1 cup of honey. Cups and millilitres are always a fixed volume ratio (1 US cup = 236.59 ml) regardless of ingredient.
What is a Cooking Measurement Converter?
Street-food recipes are written all over the world, and not every kitchen measures the same way — a Southeast Asian recipe might list grams, an American one cups, a European one millilitres. This tool converts an amount of a chosen ingredient between grams, US cups, millilitres, and ounces by weight, using a published density figure for that specific ingredient rather than a single blanket conversion.
Pick the ingredient closest to what you’re measuring — flour, sugar, oil, rice, chili powder, and more — and the converter does the rest. For scaling a whole recipe’s ingredient list to a different serving count, pair this with the Recipe Portion Scaler.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Why does the converter ask which ingredient I'm measuring?
Because grams and ounces measure weight while cups and millilitres measure volume, converting between them requires density — how much a given volume of that specific ingredient weighs. One cup of honey (about 340 g) weighs nearly three times as much as one cup of rolled oats (about 85 g), even though they take up the same space, so the ingredient choice changes the math.
Is 1 cup always the same in millilitres?
Yes — this converter uses the US cup (236.59 ml) as a fixed volume, so cup-to-ml conversions never depend on the ingredient. It's only conversions involving grams or ounces (weight) that need a density figure, which is where the ingredient selector matters.
How accurate are the gram-per-cup figures?
They're commonly published baking-reference values, close enough for everyday cooking and baking. Real-world weight varies with how an ingredient is packed or scooped (spooned-and-leveled flour weighs less than scooped-and-packed flour), humidity, and brand, so treat results as a solid kitchen estimate rather than a laboratory-precise figure.
What does 'oz' mean here — weight or fluid ounces?
Weight ounces (the kind a kitchen scale shows), not fluid ounces. This matters for cooking because recipes calling for 'oz' of a dry or semi-solid ingredient almost always mean weight, and weight ounces are what let you compare, say, flour and sugar on the same scale.