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Recipe Cups to Grams

Convert volume measurements in a recipe to grams.

Converted to grams
240 g all-purpose flour
200 g granulated sugar
114 g butter
6 g salt
85 g honey

Why grams?

  • Volume measures vary - "1 cup of flour" can be 100g to 150g depending on packing
  • Bakers' percentages need weight, not volume
  • Scaling recipes by weight is mathematically clean
  • Most cookbooks worldwide use weights; the US is the holdout

Recognizes common baking ingredients. Lines without a known ingredient pass through unchanged. Densities are typical King Arthur Baking values.

About

Paste a recipe with volume measurements (cups, tablespoons, teaspoons). The tool recognizes common ingredients (flour, sugar, butter, etc.) and converts to grams using King Arthur Baking densities.

How to use

  1. Paste the recipe.
  2. Read the gram weights.

FAQ

Why bake by weight?+

1 cup of flour can be anywhere from 100 g to 150 g depending on packing. Weight is consistent. Almost every cookbook outside the US uses grams for baking.