The Oven SpringCups to grams converter
Flour, sugar and honey do not weigh the same by the cup. Choose the ingredient and how it was measured, then convert in either direction.
1 cup of all-purpose flour = 125 g
Unbleached, enriched flour. For a recipe that gives its own gram weights, use those weights.
Find an ingredient weight
14 ingredients
| Ingredient | Grams per cup |
|---|---|
| All-purpose flour, unbleached | 125 g |
| Bread flour, enriched | 137 g |
| Whole-wheat flour | 120 g |
| Dark rye flour | 128 g |
| Light rye flour | 102 g |
| Granulated sugar | 200 g |
| Brown sugar, packed | 220 g |
| Brown sugar, unpacked | 145 g |
| Honey | 339 g |
| Unsalted butter | 227 g |
| Whole milk | 244 g |
| Olive oil | 216 g |
| Rolled / quick oats, dry | 81 g |
| Table salt (not kosher salt) | 292 g |
Why your recipe may use a different weight
A cup measures space; a scale measures mass. Scooping, settling and packing change how much fits. Packed and unpacked brown sugar therefore have separate entries. Table salt is not a substitute for a kosher-salt volume conversion.
These are USDA reference portions, not measurements of your ingredients. They are useful when only cups are available, but a kitchen scale avoids the volume estimate. Do not substitute these values for a recipe author’s supplied weights.
The calculation
Grams = cups × grams per cup. Reverse it by dividing grams by grams per cup. US kitchen arithmetic uses 16 tablespoons or 48 teaspoons per cup. All-purpose flour at 2 cups is 2 × 125 = 250 g.
With your flour weight in grams, use the baker’s percentage and hydration calculator to scale a batch. Build the preferment separately with the starter feeding calculator.