A liter of water weighs one kilogram or 1,000 milligrams. A liter is 1,000 milliliters or 100 centiliters. Working in metric is much easier, provides you have a suitably calibrated measuring jug. Surely that should be the other way round if a US pint is smaller than the Imperial one? Well, yes, but unfortunately the US fluid ounce is around four per cent larger than the Imperial one, so. Does this mean that US fluid ounces are similarly different to their Imperial cousins? It sure does - less than 34 US fluid ounces to a liter but 35.2 Imperial ones. gallon, quart or pint is equivalent to 82 per cent of the Imperial, or, to put it the other way, the Imperial measure is equivalent to 120 per cent of the U.S. Now, as we've seen elsewhere, there's an added complication here in that US pints or quarts are smaller than their Imperial equivalents.Ī U.S. Pints, quarts and litersĪ liter, of course, is equivalent to 1.8 pints or almost one quart, which is two pints. How many to a liter? We'll need to come back to that. The reason for using this measure is that theoretically it becomes possible to use kitchen scales to measure the amount of liquid (but don't forget to adjust the scales to take account of the container).Įssentially, there are 16 fluid ounces to a pint. We all know roughly what a pint or liter looks like - but a fluid ounce?Ī fluid ounce (fl oz) is the amount of water that weighs one ounce. Fluid ouncesĪ measuring jug can do the conversion for youįluid ounces really are the most difficult volume measure to work in. You can learn more about converting cups to tablespoons and cups to grams in these two articles. Supposedly, there are 16 tablespoons or 48 teaspoons to a cup, although I can't conceive of any culinary scenario (apart from scooping up spilled milk, maybe) where that would be useful information. Thus there are two cups to a pint and just over four cups to a liter.
In absolute terms, a cup is equivalent to half a pint, eight fluid ounces or 236 milliliters (in the U.S.). For kitchen purposes, 'cup' means a formal teacup, like your Granny saved for occasions when guests came to call. CupsĬups are even more problematic, coming in an even wider range of shapes and sizes. Only use heaped spoons if you want to Go Large on that particular ingredient. Most recipes are based on level spoonfuls. Of course, when dealing with powders or pastes, there is also a question of how much you can load on the spoon. However, 5ml per teaspoon and three teaspoons to one tablespoon are acceptable rules of thumb. I now discover that there is an Antipodean Aberration in the land of tablespoons, with Australian ones being 25 per cent larger again. One of the teaspoons in my cutlery drawer struggles to fill a tablespoon three times while another, older and deeper, fills the same tablespoon four times, with some left over. Measuring spoon sets remove much uncertainty Tablespoons (also known as 'serving spoons') are just as variably uncertain. That might not sound significant but represents a 50 per cent difference. We all know what a teaspoon looks like but in fact the actual capacities vary from as little as four milliliters to almost six milliliters. In the kitchen, volume can be measured in six different ways: spoons, cups, pints, quarts, liters (or 'litres' with British spelling) and fluid ounces.
Cups to oz weight full#
So, if your Ragu Bolognese recipe specifies 500 grams of mince beef (not very much for six good sized helpings!) and you want to use a full kilo, then all the other quantities need to be doubled. So if you only have very small specimens, use two.Īlternatively, measure your bulk ingredients in cups (see below) estimating each vegetable as one cupful.Īlso, when working out your quantities, just be sure how much of the core ingredient you're using and scale up on the other ingredients if necessary. A good rule of thumb is that the default is "medium" sized. onions, potatoes, carrots, etc., come in all sizes from tiny to humungous. Quantity is reasonably self-explanatory: if it says "One onion, finely diced" then that means use one onion.īut. Most ingredients are measured by quantity or volume.
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