Cups & Quarts: cooking & ingredient converter
Cups, spoons, grams and ounces, cups to grams for 58 ingredients, oven temperatures and pan sizes. Results update as you type.
Volume & weight units
1 cup = 16 tbsp
Fractions like 1 1/2 or ¾ work too. Cups and spoons are shown as the nearest kitchen fraction.
Ingredient cups ↔ grams
1 cup all-purpose flour ≈ 125 g
Popular charts
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- 1 cup honey in grams
- 1 cup white rice (long-grain, uncooked) in grams
Oven temperature
Gas Mark 4
Gas marks are approximate; ovens vary, so an oven thermometer is worth having.
Oven temperature guide
| Oven | °F | °C | Gas | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Very low | 225–275 | 105–135 | ¼–1 | Meringues, drying, slow braises |
| Low | 300–325 | 150–165 | 2–3 | Rich fruit cakes, custards, cheesecake |
| Moderate | 350–375 | 175–190 | 4–5 | Most cakes, cookies and casseroles |
| Moderately hot | 400 | 205 | 6 | Muffins, roast vegetables |
| Hot | 425–450 | 220–230 | 7–8 | Bread, pizza, roasting potatoes |
| Very hot | 475–500 | 245–260 | 9–10 | Pizza on a stone, quick high-heat roasting |
Celsius rounded to the nearest 5. For a fan or convection oven, try about 25 °F / 15 °C lower.
Pan size converter
Baking a recipe in a different pan? Enter both pans to see how much to scale the recipe.
Multiply the recipe by 1.84
Bundt and tube pans are compared by capacity. To find one, fill the pan with water a cup at a time.