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Convert a recipe to grams

Paste the ingredient list — every cup and spoon comes back in grams, each weighed as the ingredient it is.

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In short

Each line is weighed as its own ingredient (King Arthur Baking’s chart). For example, 2¼ cups all-purpose flour is 270 g, ¾ cup granulated sugar 149 g and one stick of butter 113 g. Eggs and pinches are left as written.

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Cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, ml, sticks of butter, ounces and pounds are converted. Each ingredient uses its own weight per cup.
In grams

Why weigh each ingredient differently

“Cups to grams” only works if you know what is in the cup. A cup of all-purpose flour is about 120 g, granulated sugar 198 g, packed brown sugar 213 g, honey 336 g. This converter looks up every ingredient in our cups-to-grams table — King Arthur Baking’s ingredient weight chart for flours, sugars, salts and leaveners — and shows the figure it used under each line.

What it leaves alone

Eggs and other counted items, pinches, “to taste” and instruction lines are passed through unchanged and flagged. If a line has a measure but an ingredient we don’t recognise, pick one with Weigh as. A wrong gram figure is worse than an honest blank.

Need the recipe bigger or smaller too? Use the recipe scaler first, then paste the result here. For bread, the baker’s percentage calculator also takes cups.

How do I convert a recipe from cups to grams?
Paste the ingredient list. Each line with a quantity, a unit and an ingredient we have a weight for is converted. For example, 2¼ cups all-purpose flour becomes 270 g. Lines we can’t weigh honestly are left as written.
Why not use one grams-per-cup figure for everything?
Because ingredients differ wildly: a cup of flour is about 120 g, sugar about 198 g, honey 336 g and table salt 288 g. Using one average — a common shortcut — can be off by more than double.
What about eggs and pinches?
Counted items like eggs, and vague amounts like a pinch, are left as written rather than guessed. You can still pick an ingredient for any measured line with 'Weigh as'.
Which salt does it use?
Plain 'salt' is weighed as table salt (18 g per tablespoon). Kosher salt varies by brand — Diamond Crystal is 8 g per tablespoon, Morton 16 g — so choose the right one with 'Weigh as'.

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