Free Cooking Converter (+ Guide)

What is a cooking converter?

A cooking converter changes a kitchen amount from one unit to another.

This one shows every unit at once, so you can pick whichever spoon or cup you have.

How the kitchen units fit together

All the US units come from NIST's Handbook 44, the US standard for weights and measures.

Weight is separate: 1 ounce is 28.35 g and 1 pound is 16 ounces, 453.59 g.

A worked example

Here's the example the calculator loads: 1 cup of butter.

That's 16 tablespoons, 48 teaspoons, 8 fluid ounces or 237 mL by volume. By USDA's weight for butter, it's 227 g, 8 oz or half a pound.

Mistakes to avoid

These are the slips that ruin a recipe.

• Treating a fluid ounce and an ounce of weight as the same thing
• Converting cups to grams with water's weight for every ingredient
• Using a cup or spoon from another country's set without checking its size
• Rounding teaspoons of baking soda or salt too far

Who is the cooking converter for?

It's for cooks with recipes from anywhere, and these tools help around it.

• Cups to grams converter – for 1 ingredient, cup by cup
• Recipe scaler – for every line of a recipe
• Oven temperature converter – for °F, °C and gas marks

Convert once, and cook the recipe as it was written.