Need Help Converting Ingredients....please!
Decorating By Naty Updated 20 Sep 2006 , 8:51pm by ChristaPaloma
100g butter melted................... .44 cup ( 3.52 oz)
225g caster sugar.................... .992 cup (7.936 OZ)
125g plain flour....................... .55 cup (4.4 OZ)
For reference:
http://www.onlineconversion.com/cooking.htm
Here's a link to a chart that CC member crimsicle posted in her photos that has common ingredients listed by weight and volume. I use this chart frequently as I recently bought a scale to weigh ingredients when I bake.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=Crimsicle&cat=0&pos=35
You have to be careful when converting, because not all ingredients have the same density (or weight per measure of volume). When you're measuring water, one cup (8 ounces of VOLUME) is equal to 8 ounces of WEIGHT. With most other ingredients, that's not so.
For example, flour is much lighter per cup than sugar (think of the relative sizes of a 5 lb bag of sugar and a 5 lb bag of flour - both weigh 5 lbs, but the sugar takes up less space).
By her chart, here are the approx. cup measurements for your ingredients:
100g butter melted ---- slightly over 1/2 cup
225g caster sugar ----- slightly over 1 cup (1 1/8 cups would be too much)
125g plain flour -------- 1 cup = 129 grams
hth!
Laura.
Here's a link to a chart that CC member crimsicle posted in her photos that has common ingredients listed by weight and volume. I use this chart frequently as I recently bought a scale to weigh ingredients when I bake.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=Crimsicle&cat=0&pos=35
You have to be careful when converting, because not all ingredients have the same density (or weight per measure of volume). When you're measuring water, one cup (8 ounces of VOLUME) is equal to 8 ounces of WEIGHT. With most other ingredients, that's not so.
For example, flour is much lighter per cup than sugar (think of the relative sizes of a 5 lb bag of sugar and a 5 lb bag of flour - both weigh 5 lbs, but the sugar takes up less space).
By her chart, here are the approx. cup measurements for your ingredients:
100g butter melted ---- slightly over 1/2 cup
225g caster sugar ----- slightly over 1 cup (1 1/8 cups would be too much)
125g plain flour -------- 1 cup = 129 grams
hth!
Laura.
Hi Laura...thanks for the info...
Just wondering now....when I read a recipe for say... 125g flour...I think it in terms of volume...not weight as in just under half a cup....as written on the "other side" of a measuring cup in Canada.... I guess we have to decide which the recipe is specifying.... It never occured to me they would give a recipe by weight....
You're welcome!
Grams are always weight, liters (and mililiters) are volume.
It's confusing, because for water, the measurements happen to be the same, but for other things, they aren't.
The "other measurements" on your measuring cup are for volume - you need a scale to do the weights. Our measuring cups have the metric volumes on them also, or at least mine do, but I don't look at them, LOL!
I think the biggest problem with understanding all of this is that in the U.S. system, the word "ounces" is used to mean two different things, and again they happen to be equivalent for water, but not for much else. It's easy to get the two confused because of that.
Laura.
100g butter melted................... .44 cup ( 3.52 oz)
225g caster sugar.................... .992 cup (7.936 OZ)
125g plain flour....................... .55 cup (4.4 OZ)
For reference:
http://www.onlineconversion.com/cooking.htm
Thank you ChristaPaloma!!
Naty
You're welcome!
Grams are always weight, liters (and mililiters) are volume.
It's confusing, because for water, the measurements happen to be the same, but for other things, they aren't.
The "other measurements" on your measuring cup are for volume - you need a scale to do the weights. Our measuring cups have the metric volumes on them also, or at least mine do, but I don't look at them, LOL!
I think the biggest problem with understanding all of this is that in the U.S. system, the word "ounces" is used to mean two different things, and again they happen to be equivalent for water, but not for much else. It's easy to get the two confused because of that.
Laura.
Yes... I guess what I am saying is...here in Canada the cup has the volume in both imperial, and metric.....I guess using water as the equivalent...now someone giving a recipe in Canada, using grams, is going to naturally give what the cup says, and we're going to get all messed up lol....
I understand fully what you are saying, but I rather think it is a problem for many people who just follow the cups when they give out a recipe in grams...so, that made me wonder about the creating of the recipe in the first place... thanks for keeping it straight. I watch out for the meaning as the issue comes up a lot here.
Just keep in mind that the measurements on the side of the cup are NOT grams, they're mililiters, and you'll do fine!
Yes...thanks again...
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