Me cooking crepês for my host dad's birthday, Feb. 2006 |
Having studied abroad in France with a wonderful family whom I still love, I cooked in a metric kitchen. We found a new use for our dictionary! Yes, we kept an English/French dictionary at the kitchen table. It did not save me from several... embarrassing errors.
Anyway, given this is the internet, I thought I might post the conversions, which I had almost down by memory by the end of my 6 months, but have now forgotten.
Volume Conversions: Normally used for liquids only | |
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Customary quantity | Metric equivalent |
1 teaspoon | 5 mL |
1 tablespoon or 1/2 fluid ounce | 15 mL |
1 fluid ounce or 1/8 cup | 30 mL |
1/4 cup or 2 fluid ounces | 60 mL |
1/3 cup | 80 mL |
1/2 cup or 4 fluid ounces | 120 mL |
2/3 cup | 160 mL |
3/4 cup or 6 fluid ounces | 180 mL |
1 cup or 8 fluid ounces or half a pint | 240 mL |
1 1/2 cups or 12 fluid ounces | 350 mL |
2 cups or 1 pint or 16 fluid ounces | 475 mL |
3 cups or 1 1/2 pints | 700 mL |
4 cups or 2 pints or 1 quart | 950 mL |
4 quarts or 1 gallon | 3.8 L |
Note: In cases where higher precision is not justified, it may be convenient to round these conversions off as follows: 1 cup = 250 mL 1 pint = 500 mL 1 quart = 1 L 1 gallon = 4 L |
Weight
Weights can be converted with the following table. Note that the ounces referred to in this table are not the same as fluid ounces.
Weight Conversions | |
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Customary quantity | Metric equivalent |
1 ounce | 28 g |
4 ounces or 1/4 pound | 113 g |
1/3 pound | 150 g |
8 ounces or 1/2 pound | 230 g |
2/3 pound | 300 g |
12 ounces or 3/4 pound | 340 g |
1 pound or 16 ounces | 450 g |
2 pounds | 900 g |
Other non-liquid ingredients
Non-liquid ingredients specified in American recipes by volume (if more than about 2 tablespoons or 1 fluid ounce) should be converted to weight with the following table. If you need to convert an ingredient that isn't in this table, the safest thing to do is to measure it with a traditional measuring cup and then weigh the results with a metric scale. In a pinch, you can use the volume conversion table, above.
Weights of common ingredients in grams | |||||||
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Ingredient | 1 cup | 3/4 cup | 2/3 cup | 1/2 cup | 1/3 cup | 1/4 cup | 2 Tbsp |
Flour, all purpose (wheat) | 120 g | 90 g | 80 g | 60 g | 40 g | 30 g | 15 g |
Flour, well sifted all purpose (wheat) | 110 g | 80 g | 70 g | 55 g | 35 g | 27 g | 13 g |
Sugar, granulated cane | 200 g | 150 g | 130 g | 100 g | 65 g | 50 g | 25 g |
Confectioner's sugar (cane) | 100 g | 75 g | 70 g | 50 g | 35 g | 25 g | 13 g |
Brown sugar, packed firmly (but not too firmly) | 180 g | 135 g | 120 g | 90 g | 60 g | 45 g | 23 g |
Corn meal | 160 g | 120 g | 100 g | 80 g | 50 g | 40 g | 20 g |
Corn starch | 120 g | 90 g | 80 g | 60 g | 40 g | 30 g | 15 g |
Rice, uncooked | 190 g | 140 g | 125 g | 95 g | 65 g | 48 g | 24 g |
Macaroni, uncooked | 140 g | 100 g | 90 g | 70 g | 45 g | 35 g | 17 g |
Couscous, uncooked | 180 g | 135 g | 120 g | 90 g | 60 g | 45 g | 22 g |
Oats, uncooked quick | 90 g | 65 g | 60 g | 45 g | 30 g | 22 g | 11 g |
Table salt | 300 g | 230 g | 200 g | 150 g | 100 g | 75 g | 40 g |
Butter | 240 g | 180 g | 160 g | 120 g | 80 g | 60 g | 30 g |
Vegetable shortening | 190 g | 140 g | 125 g | 95 g | 65 g | 48 g | 24 g |
Chopped fruits and vegetables | 150 g | 110 g | 100 g | 75 g | 50 g | 40 g | 20 g |
Nuts, chopped | 150 g | 110 g | 100 g | 75 g | 50 g | 40 g | 20 g |
Nuts, ground | 120 g | 90 g | 80 g | 60 g | 40 g | 30 g | 15 g |
Bread crumbs, fresh, loosely packed | 60 g | 45 g | 40 g | 30 g | 20 g | 15 g | 8 g |
Bread crumbs, dry | 150 g | 110 g | 100 g | 75 g | 50 g | 40 g | 20 g |
Parmesan cheese, grated | 90 g | 65 g | 60 g | 45 g | 30 g | 22 g | 11 g |
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