Why do cup-to-gram conversions differ by ingredient?
Because density differs. A cup of flour is about 120 g while a cup of honey is 340 g, which is why baking recipes increasingly give weights.
Convert between cooking measurements: cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, grams, ounces, and milliliters. Essential for recipe scaling and baking.
1 cup = 16 tbsp = 48 tsp = 236.6 ml. 1 tbsp = 3 tsp = 14.8 ml. Weight conversions differ per ingredient: flour ≈ 120 g/cup, sugar ≈ 200 g/cup.
3/4 cup is 12 tablespoons or 177 ml. In weight that is about 90 g of flour but 150 g of granulated sugar — same volume, very different mass.
Because density differs. A cup of flour is about 120 g while a cup of honey is 340 g, which is why baking recipes increasingly give weights.
No — a US cup is 236.6 ml, a metric cup 250 ml and an imperial cup 284 ml. On large batches that difference is enough to change a dough.
Spoon it into the cup and level it off. Scooping straight from the bag compacts it and can add 20% more flour than the recipe intends.