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Are you referring to fluid ounces or ounces of weight? Unless you are talking about fluid ounces, you can't translate ounces directly to a measurement. One ounce of different foods will be different sizes, so it needs to be measured with a kitchen scale.

28 grams.

It's a weight so it would depend on the item if 1oz ends up being a teaspoon or whatever.

If you're measuring food atm, look into a cheap food scale and start measuring things. I measure all kinds of things just because I'm curious! It's interesing to see how much something weighs/how much liquid something is, etc.

An ounce can be a weight, approx. 28 grams, or it can be a fluid ounce, around 30 ml (US).
Get a scale and a measuring cup to be sure.

28 grams.

It's a weight so it would depend on the item if 1oz ends up being a teaspoon or whatever.

If you're measuring food atm, look into a cheap food scale and start measuring things. I measure all kinds of things just because I'm curious! It's interesing to see how much something weighs/how much liquid something is, etc.

Actually there are fluid ounces, which are volume and weight ounces.

A volume ounce is six teaspoons, or two tablespoons. A weight ounce is one-sixteenth of a pound.

Not very convenient numbers. Anybody for changing over to the metric system? Let's do it yesterday, folks!

Not helpful unless shes just measuring water. A volume tablespoon of gold would weigh more than an ounce....a volume cup of feathers would weigh less than 8ounces.
she needs to get a kitchen scale...metric or not. (I vote not....but that's me...)

Uhhhhh ... sorry, but a volume ounce is six teaspoons, regardless of the material. Similarly, a weight ounce is one-sixteenth of a pound, regardless of the material. Weight and volume are different physical quantities. In a rational system, the units of their measurement would not have the same name. (See the metric system.) Unfortunately, the "English" system ain't rational. Result: confusion of just this sort.

1 oz = 30 grams approx, this is one conversion site I use

http://www.unitconversion.org/index.html

There are sites if you google - how much does a cup of flour weigh or similar - then some conversion sites will come up and tell you how much a certain amount of ingredient equals. I didn't keep the link I used, sorry

Edited to add - getting a digital scale is a great help. As is metric - do it!!!! We converted from Imperial to Metric in Australia quite a while ago now - at first it was tricky, but is it easy to use, honestly

... As is metric - do it!!!! We converted from Imperial to Metric in Australia quite a while ago now - at first it was tricky, but is it easy to use, honestly

Thank you, Christine S.! Regrettably, I don't see the US ever going metric. Have you seen the movie "Idiocracy?" It's about my dear native land, sad to say.