Cups to grams, weight, volume and oven temperatures
A cup of flour weighs 120 g; a cup of sugar weighs 200 g. Pick the ingredient or the answer is meaningless.
Measured by spooning the ingredient into a US cup (236.6 ml) and levelling it off. Scooping straight from the bag packs roughly 20% more in.
| Ingredient | 1 cup | 1 tbsp | 1 tsp |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-purpose flour (plain) | 120 g | 7.8 g | 2.6 g |
| Bread flour (strong white) | 127 g | 8 g | 2.6 g |
| Brown sugar, packed | 220 g | 13.8 g | 4.6 g |
| Butter, salted | 227 g | 14.2 g | 4.7 g |
| Cocoa powder, unsweetened | 85 g | 5.4 g | 1.8 g |
| Granulated sugar (caster) | 200 g | 12.5 g | 4.2 g |
| Ground almonds (almond flour) | 96 g | 6 g | — |
| Honey | 339 g | 21 g | 7 g |
| Icing sugar (powdered) | 120 g | 7.5 g | 2.5 g |
| Milk, whole | 244 g | 15.3 g | 5.1 g |
| Rolled oats | 90 g | 5.6 g | 1.9 g |
| Salt, table | 292 g | 18 g | 6 g |
| Water | 237 g | 14.8 g | 4.9 g |
| White rice, raw long-grain | 185 g | 11.6 g | 3.9 g |
| Wholemeal flour (whole wheat) | 120 g | 7.5 g | 2.5 g |
| Gas mark | °C | °F | Fan °C | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ¼ | 110 | 225 | 90 | Very cool |
| ½ | 120 | 250 | 100 | Very cool |
| 1 | 140 | 275 | 120 | Cool |
| 2 | 150 | 300 | 130 | Cool |
| 3 | 170 | 325 | 150 | Warm |
| 4 | 180 | 350 | 160 | Moderate |
| 5 | 190 | 375 | 170 | Moderately hot |
| 6 | 200 | 400 | 180 | Moderately hot |
| 7 | 220 | 425 | 200 | Hot |
| 8 | 230 | 450 | 210 | Hot |
| 9 | 240 | 475 | 220 | Very hot |
Fan ovens circulate hot air, so they cook faster at the same dial setting. Drop a conventional temperature by 20 °C when using fan.
A US customary cup is 236.6 ml, a metric cup is 250 ml, and an old UK imperial cup is 284.1 ml — a 20% spread. American recipes almost always mean the US cup. Australian recipes mean the metric one, and an Australian tablespoon is 20 ml rather than 15 ml, which matters for anything strongly flavoured.
°C = (°F − 32) × 5/9 and °F = °C × 9/5 + 32.
A cup of flour and a cup of sugar do not weigh the same, so a cups-to-grams conversion is meaningless without knowing the ingredient. Pick yours and the density used is shown alongside the answer.
