Faced by Cooking Conversions Dilemma? How to Resolve It...

If you are facing any cooking conversions dilemma you may now want to resolve it. I will explain you how to get rid of this dilemma with my easy conversion charts and tools. You'll end up knowing how to make your recipes right...

How many different cooking measurements are out there? How to convert them?

The problem is measurements and also terms for food (but that's another speech) vary from country to country, even if both countries speak English.

Yes, it's indeed a serious dilemma!

For example here in Italy we don't have cooking equipment formed by tablespoons, teaspoons or cups, we just measure solids by metric weight and liquids by volumes.

Even though I later understood that light weights are much easier to measure with Tbsp or tsp especially when measuring little herbs for cooking.

But contrary to what I just stated above I would never use tsp, Tbsp nor cups to measure dry food as you can see in the pictures below.

Who can say how many bananas are in one cup? How much oatmeal? Instead of bananas and oatmeal the cup goes well for milk.

I know it might be helpful as a starting point to measure weights with cups, but then we can't rely much on it if we want to be precise and make our recipes right.

I would rather keep measuring solids in ounces, pounds, grams or kilograms with a kitchen scale if I can.

If you live in the United States you can easily buy a Pyrex measurement cup for example and keep the recipes as they are by cups.

But what will happen if you live in another country?

You might have different cooking measurements and things that don't fit the cooking measures used in other countries and that would definitively destroy your recipe.

So the only thing you can do is to convert those measures in yours and below I will show you how.

How to make cooking conversions right...

The problem is how to make right cooking conversions without taking wrong measures which then could turn out to make your recipe uneatable?

If you follow my Italian recipes on this website you don't need to convert nothing because as far for my own sake but as well as yours, I converted all the measures I wrote in the recipes using as reference the United States measuring cup for liquids, then I used ounces and pounds for solid measures, so they are already converted for you.

Besides, I also mentioned the original metric measure with grams or milliliters between brackets. I thought that this was the best I could do to resolve this measurement dilemma.

But after all that work I still felt unsatisfied (I'm little of perfectionist), so I came up further more adding some helpful conversion tools that you can test and play with below.

Liquid & Solid Conversion Tools

Being easy to use the only option you have is simply to convert the cooking measures of the recipe you are making in your country standard measures.

Is that hard and requires math to do?

Yes it would, but if you follow these unit conversion tools I provided, everything turns out to be easy.

I hope that this tool gave you a help and now let's face the next cooking conversion dilemma is about temperature conversions, so I provided another tool below.

Temperature Conversion Tool

Some other important conversions to consider are about temperature and these factors are provided by an external website as those above. This tool is also easy to use because you simply type in the box the temperature you need to convert and then with the pull down window you choose from Fahrenheit to Celsius or Celsius to Fahrenheit.

You have also this easy table to find out conversions to oven temperature.

Further more...

For those who need to convert measurements from American recipes have noticed that most of the ingredients are indicated by volumes instead of weights. In fact the common measurement unit used in American kitchens is the cup.

But clearly a cup of a substance does not necessarily have the same weight of a cup of another substance, but it will have the same volume so one cup = 235 ml.

The table below shows the conversion from cups to grams of some main ingredients.

I now hope that your cooking conversions are clearer to you as they are for me, but...

Another Cooking Conversion Resource!

If after all you need more, think about Google's cooking conversions resource because it's easy to convert measures in Google's search box and not only for cooking. For example if you need to covert cups into grams you just type it into Google's search box like this: - 2 cups in ml - and you'll get the result on Google's page, isn't that easy?

You can try with solid measures too like this other: - 4 ounces in grams - isn't that cool? Try with other measures and you've discovered Google's helpful built-in converter and calculator too when you are online.