Measurements

Grandma's Soul Food Kitchen

Below, you'll find common cooking measurements when dealing with weight. Most dry/solid ingredients are measured this way, with the possible exception of powder ingredients (and ingredients not easily measured by weight—e.g. rice). Those may be measured in the form of tablespoons/teaspoons.

1 - >2
 

1 pint =	2 cups =	32 tablespoons
1 quart =	2 pints =	4 cups
1 gallon =	4 quarts =	8 pints
If you're dealing with recipes that ask for measurements using the metric scale, use these conversions.
1 teaspoon =	5 milliliters (mL. or ml.)
1 tablespoon =	15 milliliters
1 fluid ounce =	30 milliliters
1 cup =	240 milliliters
1 pint (pt.) =	480 milliliters
1 quart (qt.) =	960 milliliters
1 gallon (gal.) =	3840 milliliters
1 liter (L.) =	1000 milliliters 34 fluid ounces 4.2 cups 2.1 pints 1.06 quarts 0.26 gallons
Below, you'll find common cooking measurements when dealing with weight. Most dry/solid ingredients are measured this way, with the possible exception of powder ingredients (and ingredients not easily measured by weight—e.g. rice). Those may be measured in the form of tablespoons/teaspoons.
1 ounce (oz.) =	28 grams (g)
1 pound (lb.) =	16 ounces
1 pound =	454 grams
Don't confuse the ounce with the fluid ounce. The ounce is a measure of weight. You measure things like meat and books in this form. The fluid ounce is a measure of volume. Liquids aren't normally measured by weight, which is why you don't hear, "I drank a pound of orange juice this morning." One-Pound Equivalents Many recipes call for a pound of a particular ingredient. But how do you determine how much is a pound without a scale? These are common ingredients used in a majority of cooking recipes. One pound is equal to  2 cups butter 4 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups granulated sugar 2 2/3 cups brown sugar 3 1/2 cups sifted powdered sugar 2 cups milk 9 medium eggs 2 2/3 cups dry oatmeal 1 7/8 cups rice 2 1/3 cups dry beans 2 cups ground, packed meat. Is it Me, or Is This Really Hot? The other issue that may come up when cooking is temperature. Unfortunately, not everyone likes to use the same unit of measurement for temperature either, so you'll need to know how to convert. Otherwise, if the recipe tells you to cook at 200 ºC and you set your oven to 200 ºF, you'll be in for a surprise when you take a bite out of your casserole.