Your Guide to Cooking and Baking Conversions

It’s exciting to try new recipes, like whole grain bagels recipe! It’s less exciting when your recipe calls for 5 milliliters of vanilla and you don’t know how to measure that. Don’t let these unfamiliar measurements scare you away from trying a new recipe though! Here are some basic conversions and equivalents that can help you with those recipes you aren’t quite sure about.

Basic Dry Ingredient Equivalents

1 Tablespoon = 3 teaspoons

⅛ cup = 2 Tablespoons

¼ cup  = 4 Tablespoons

⅓ cup = 5 ⅓ Tablespoons

1 cup  = 16 Tablespoons

Liquid Ingredient Equivalents

1 cup (½ pint) = 8 fluid oz

2 cups (1 pint) = 16 fluid oz

4 cups (1 quart – 2 pints) = 32 fluid oz

8 cups (4 pints) – 64 fluid oz

16 cups (4 quarts – 1 gallon) = 128 fluid oz

Weight

½ ounce = 14 g

1 ounce = 7 g

2 ounces = 57 g

8 ounces = 227 g

1 pound – 454 g

Volume

1 teaspoon = 5 ml

1 tablespoon = 15 ml

¼ cup = 60 ml

⅓ cup = 80 ml

1 cup = 240 ml

Length

⅛” = 3mm

¼” = 6mm

⅓” = 8mm

1” = 2.5 cm

Oven Temperatures

*Helpful Hints

oz = ounces

g = grams

ml = milliliters

mm = millimeters

“ inch(es)

cm = centimeters

Next time you find yourself in a pinch with unfamiliar measurements, don’t panic! There’s no need to attempt to memorize all of those conversions, just refer back to this post whenever you need a reminder.