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What it is
Cooking Converter turns cups, tablespoons, teaspoons and milliliters into grams as you type, using specific densities for 8 curated ingredients: flour, sugar, butter, water, rice, milk, honey and oil. A cup of flour weighs about 120 g, while a cup of sugar weighs about 200 g: same volume, different weight, because the two ingredients have different densities (0.507 g/ml versus 0.845 g/ml). This ingredient-by-ingredient density table is the part none of the 8 leading competitors analyzed offer: most only convert volume to volume, without ever getting to grams.
- 8 ingredients with curated density: flour, sugar, butter, water, rice, milk, honey, oil
- 1 cup flour ≈ 120 g, 1 cup sugar ≈ 200 g: same volume, different weight because of different densities
- Linked to the weight and volume converters: for pure units (kg, ml) without density, use those instead of this one
How it works
Pick the ingredient
Choose one of the 8 curated ingredients: flour, sugar, butter, water, rice, milk, honey or oil.
Type cups, tablespoons or ml
Enter the volume in your preferred unit: the weight in grams appears instantly, calculated from the chosen ingredient's density.
Check the common table
Below the result you'll find the most-used conversions already calculated (1/2 cup, 1 tablespoon...) for the selected ingredient.
Features
Curated densities for 8 ingredients
Flour (0.507 g/ml), sugar (0.845 g/ml), butter (0.959 g/ml), water (1.0 g/ml), rice (0.782 g/ml), milk (1.031 g/ml), honey (1.437 g/ml) and oil (0.921 g/ml): a table missing from all 8 leading competitors analyzed.
From cups/tablespoons to grams, not just volume to volume
1 tablespoon of butter weighs about 14.18 g: a real volume-to-weight conversion, not just a swap between volume units like most cooking converters offer.
Common conversions table
Typical recipe amounts (1/4, 1/2, 1 cup, 1 tablespoon...) already calculated in grams for the chosen ingredient.
Linked to pure weight and volume
To convert an ingredient outside the 8 curated ones, or for pure units without density (kg, ml), use the weight converter or the volume converter: what's added here is specifically the per-ingredient density.
FAQ
About 120 g (236.588 ml × 0.507 g/ml flour density).
About 14.18 g (14.7868 ml × 0.959 g/ml butter density).
Because they have different densities: flour has a density of 0.507 g/ml (it's more "airy"), sugar 0.845 g/ml. Same volume (one cup), different weight.
They're indicative values: real density varies with brand, moisture and how the ingredient is measured (sifted versus packed flour, for example). Useful for everyday recipes, not for professional-grade precision baking.
You can still convert volume to volume (cups, tablespoons, ml) for any ingredient with the volume converter, but without a known density the tool can't calculate the corresponding grams.