Cooking Measurement Tables – Common Weights and Measures

Cooking measurement tables are good tools for determining how different measures such as teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, pints, quarts, gallons and pounds relate to each other. These measures are US measures by volume which are converted to metric measures such as milliliters and liters in Canada and everywhere else, and measures by weight which are ounces in the US and grams in Canada and everywhere else.

Some Common Tables Are:

Measures By Volume

Tablespoons	Teaspoons	Cups	Ounces
1 tablespoon	3 teaspoons		1/2 ounce
2 tablespoons		1/8 cup	1 ounce
4 tablespoons		1/4 cup	2 ounces
6 tablespoons		3/8 cup	3 ounces
8 tablespoons		1/2 cup	4 ounces
12 tablespoons		3/4 cup	6 ounces
14 tablespoons		7/8 cup	7 ounces
16 tablespoons		1 cup	8 ounces

An example of how to read these tables is 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons = 1/2 ounce.

Cups	Ounces	Pints	Quarts	Gallons
1 cup	8 ounces	1/2 pint
2 cups	16 ounces	1 pint
3 cups	24 ounces	1 ½ pint	3/4 quarts
4 cups	32 ounces	2 pints	1 quart
6 cups	48 ounces	3 pints	1 ½ quarts
8 cups	64 ounces	2 quarts		1/2 gallon
16 cups	128 ounces	4 quarts		1 gallon

Metric Conversions by Volume

United States	Canada and Everywhere Else
1 teaspoon	5 ml (millileters)
1 tablespoon	15 ml
1/4 cup	60 ml
1/3 cup	80 ml
1/2 cup	120 ml
2/3 cup	160 ml
3/4 cup	180 ml
1 cup	240 ml
1 pint	475 ml
1 quart	.95 liter
1 gallon	3.8 liters

Metrics Conversions by Weight

United States	Canada and Everywhere Else
1 ounce	28.3 gm (grams)
4 ounces	113 gm
8 ounces	227 gm
12 ounces	340.2 gm

It should be noted that a dash or pinch = less than 1/8 teaspoon.

For more interesting information about cooking measurement tables click on the link to startcooking.com For some great sections on cooking measurement tables, some great references are:

• The Taste of Home Cookbook – All New Edition from Taste of Home Books, Reiman Media Group

• The All New Good Housekeeping Cook Book, Edited by Susan Westmoreland, Hearst Books, New York

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