Cooking: USA cup measurement to grams or Ounces?!


Question: Cooking: USA cup measurement to grams or Ounces!?
Hello does any one know the conversion! I want to make a sprite cake! and the measurements are all in cups!!! Www@FoodAQ@Com


Answers:
It is MUCH simpler to go to tesco or asda and pick up a cheap set of measuring cups and spoons!

American/Canadian recipes are based on volume!. Using grams or ounces is a measure by weight which is not the same thing!. It's all but hopeless to try and convert a baking recipe like this without great experience and expertise in the baking arts!.

Sincerely, go get proper measure cups and follow the recipe as written!. While cups/spoons may not match between US and here; the trick is that as long as you are using them in-line with the recipe, proportions will remain the same and you shouldn't have any problem turning out a good product!

CheersWww@FoodAQ@Com

I don't know where these people are getting their information, but cups are a volume measurement and grams and ounces in the sense I think you're looking for are weight measurements, so they can't be converted without knowing what the ingredient weighs!. The volumes they're converting to weight are most likely for water, which is useless!.

Try using this:
http://www!.gourmetsleuth!.com/gram_calc!.h!.!.!.

CalorieKing is excellent for getting volume and weight results, but I don't think you'll find any baking ingredients!.
http://www!.calorieking!.com/Www@FoodAQ@Com

Absolutely! A cup full of feathers would weigh different to a cup full of marbles! also US recipes sometimes call for "tight packed" or "loose" contents on top of those cup measurements, which will make quite a difference if converting to weight-based equivalent!.

I agree absolutely about following the recipe in the ORIGINAL as far as is practical!. It is far "safer"!. It is also easier than you may imagine!. The only bit best converted to imperial or metric weight is the fat/shortening/butter/margarine content!. That is far easier to weigh than cramming into a cup to measure, then emptying out again! Most modern US recipe actually call for fat in ounces or grams!. It is the ones that call for so many "sticks" of margarine that get me! (Apparently = 4 oz each)

Be aware that other liquid and spoon measurements such as tablespoons are also a different size/volume to the UK/Europe, so watch out when using a US recipe without using normed US measuring spoons and cups!.

OR you stick to using a British breakfast cup and Imperial spoons, etc!. as an alternative when following a US recipe!. Slight variations will be minimal!. After all it was how we used to cook in Britain too, before scales became affordable!. My grandmother cooked and baked in that way and only very rarely used weights!. Even then, it was usually the weight of an egg and then multiples of that!.

Some cookery booked are abysmal at "converting" recipes too!. Who on earth edits them!? Recipes calling for 318 grams flour and such baloney! Makes me cross every time! They don't need to tell me to "keep to one or the other"!.!.!. It goes without saying it is best sticking to what is plainly "the original" and avoiding cookery books which have simply "converted" from granny's imperial or US to metric without thought for the end user!. Mutter, mutter, mutter!.!.!. LOL!Www@FoodAQ@Com

I have found this site really useful for the conversion of cups to grammes/ounces!. You can't go with 1 cup equals 8oz as a cup is by volume and different ingredients have different weights!. So 1 cup of flour will be 4oz but 1 cup of fat will be 8oz!. One other point to remember is that a US pint is 16 fl oz were in the UK its 20 fl oz!.

http://www!.recipes4us!.co!.uk/us_cups_to_w!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

1 US Cup = 230 grams

230 grams = 8!.11 ouncesWww@FoodAQ@Com

I believe 1 cup is 200 gramsWww@FoodAQ@Com





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