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Cooking Measurement

One of the types of questions I often get is about cooking measurement . Questions like:

How many tablespoons make a cup?

or even worse: converstions from metric to US or Imperial?

Just in case you wonder - yes there is a difference between a US pint and UK ditto !

Most world cuisines use metric weights for non-liquid ingredients and metric volumes for liquids. The United States uses its own system of volumetric measurements for most ingredients, weights for others, and sometimes expresses amounts in both, as in "one pint (8 ounces) of milk" or "four tablespoons (two ounces) of butter." The liquid "ounces" in the first example and the solid "ounces" in the second have the same name, but reflect two different measurement systems. A solid "cup" of flour and a liquid "cup" of milk show a similar discrepancy.

This lens is about the measurements you need in your (American) kitchen and for non-Amercans unscrambling an American recipe.

Contents at a Glance

Teaspoons, Tablespoons and Cups Equivale...
How to Measure Food
American Food Measurement Basics
Digital Glass Nutrition Calculator Food...
Weight of liquids
Metric Measures in the US, UK, Australia...

Teaspoons, Tablespoons and Cups Equivalents

Pyrex Prepware 2-Cup Measuring Cup, Clear with Red Measurements

For Nutritional facts labeling purposes, the FDA definitions state that "a teaspoon means 5 milliliters (ml), a tablespoon means 15 ml, a cup means 240 ml, 1 fl oz means 30 ml, and 1 oz in weight means 28 g."

Abbriviations:

Teaspoon = tsp or t
Tablespoon = tbsp or T
Cup = C

Source: United States Dept. of Agriculture (USDA).

How to Measure Food

For some this might be basic knowledge - then again you wouldn't be here if that was the case!

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American Food Measurement Basics

for us non-U.S Citizens and newcomers in the kitchen

# Liquid measurements (from small to large) can be expressed in teaspoons, tablespoons, fluid ounces, cups, pints, quarts and gallons.

# A liquid tablespoon is three teaspoons. Sets of calibrated measuring spoons are usually available in quarter teaspoon, half teaspoon, teaspoon, tablespoon, and two-tablespoon (coffee scoop) sizes. Cooks use these spoons for measuring out small amounts of ingredients like extracts, salt and pepper, spices, minced garlic, chilies, and alcoholic beverages used in cooking.

# From the standpoint of the fluid ounce, a single fluid ounce is two tablespoons. Eight fluid ounces make up a cup, sixteen ounces a pint, thirty-two ounces a quart.

# From the standpoint of the fluid cup, two cups make a pint, four cups make a quart, sixteen cups a gallon.

# From the standpoint of the pint, two pints make a quart, eight pints a gallon (four quarts). Warning: Dry measure pints and quarts (2 pints), used for fruits and vegetables, are slightly larger (by about one-sixth) than liquid measure pints and quarts. Larger dry measures like pecks (8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints) and bushels (4 pecks, 32 quarts, 64 pints) are used mainly in agriculture.

# Dry ingredients, particularly in baking, may be given in traditional weights (16 dry ounces make one pound) or in a system of cups that do not match exactly the liquid type of "cup" measurement. To make the system more confusing, because of the different textures of ingredients, a "cup" of one ingredient may not weigh the same as a "cup" of another. A cup of unsifted flour weighs five ounces, a cup of granulated sugar weighs seven ounces, while a cup of butter (2 sticks) weighs eight ounces.

Digital Glass Nutrition Calculator Food Scale

Newline Accurate Digital Glass Nutrition Calculator Food Scale, Blue

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This scale with its 99 memory entry capacity has the facility to make multiple food entries and help you keep track over and extended period of time and store in memory.

Tare function too.

Weight of liquids

In US and UK

1 ml of water weighs exactly 1 gram so a recipe calling for 300 ml of water can simply be substituted with 300 g of water.

1 fl.oz. of water weighs approximately 1 ounce so a recipe calling for a UK pint (20 fl.oz.) of water can be substituted with 20oz of water.

More accurate weight equivalents become important in the large volumes used in commercial food production. To an accuracy of five significant digits, they are:

Metric Measures in the US, UK, Australia and FDA

In most of the world, recipes use the metric system of litres (l) and millilitres (ml), grams (g) and kilograms (kg), and degrees Celsius (°C). The word litre is often spelled liter in the USA.

Some common volume measures in English-speaking countries are:

Bar Drink Measurements

... I couldn't leave this out!

1 dash = 6 drops

3 teaspoons = 1/2 ounce

1 pony = 1 ounce

1 jigger = 2½ ounce

1 large jigger = 2 ounces

1 std. whiskey glass = 2 ounces

1 pint = 16 fluid ounces

1 fifth = 25.6 fluid ounces

1 quart = 32 fluid ounces

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Cooking Measurement US

Cooking Measurement

Contents at a Glance

Contents at a Glance

Teaspoons, Tablespoons and Cups Equivalents

How to Measure Food

For some this might be basic knowledge - then again you wouldn't be here if that was the case!

American Food Measurement Basics

for us non-U.S Citizens and newcomers in the kitchen

Digital Glass Nutrition Calculator Food Scale

Weight of liquids

In US and UK

Metric Measures in the US, UK, Australia and FDA

In most of the world, recipes use the metric system of litres (l) and millilitres (ml), grams (g) and kilograms (kg), and degrees Celsius (°C). The word litre is often spelled liter in the USA.

Bar Drink Measurements

... I couldn't leave this out!

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