cups to grams

newsimone2015
newsimone2015 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Hello! I live in Europe and we use grams, not cups. Can somebody convert for me 1 1/4 cups oats , 1 2/3 cups milk, 1/3 cup light brown sugar, 1/3 cup oats and 12 ounces frozen mixed berries? :D

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  • mbushnellWA
    mbushnellWA Posts: 11 Member
    edited February 2015
    Try it yourself. Search on the internet for "how many grams in a cup of oats" (and it will matter what kind of oats: rolled, steel cut, etc.) Same for the others except the berries. You've got ounces, so that is easily converted to grams by querying Google etc and you don't need to know the specific food to convert ounces or pounds to grams (or cups to mls).
  • h7463
    h7463 Posts: 626 Member
    edited February 2015
    Hi there! One standard 'cup' around here is just a bit less than 250 ml, if you use a European measuring cup. Divide it for your 1/4, 1/3, 2/3...

    It's a bit difficult to convert the ingredients exactly, because it makes a difference which kind of oats you are using. E.g. instant/quick oats are not as dense as rolled oats. If the recipe calls for cups, just use the measuring cup...

    For the frozen berries: 1 oz = 28 g, 12 oz = 336 g
  • diegops1
    diegops1 Posts: 154 Member
    As noted in another post grams are weight (actually mass, but the physics lesson can wait) and cups are volume. Usually European measurements make more sense than US, BUT in this case, it is totally weird to be in a European kitchen and see measuring cups and spoons in grams. You will have to use a computer search for this. In the US we also have "fluid ounces" and "weight ounces". So just using ounces will not work unless you know which kind. A measuring cup in the US has a scale in "fluid ounces" on the side, 8 fluid ounces to the cup. But this is not weight, it is volume. Take a look at this website for some common kitchen recipe conversions. http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Cup-to-Gram-Conversions
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    newsimone2015 wrote: »
    Hello! I live in Europe and we use grams, not cups. Can somebody convert for me 1 1/4 cups oats , 1 2/3 cups milk, 1/3 cup light brown sugar, 1/3 cup oats and 12 ounces frozen mixed berries? :D

    The milk is 400 ml. Everything else is fairly arbitrary, though the sugar will be close to 68 grams.
  • nsoss
    nsoss Posts: 34 Member
    edited February 2015
    Cups is a measure of volume. Grams is a measure of mass. You can't convert from one to the other.

    You can convert cups to milliliters -- 1 cup equals about 240 mL -- and then either look up, or weigh, that volume.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    nsoss wrote: »
    Cups is a measure of volume. Grams is a measure of mass. You can't convert from one to the other.

    you can when you know the density, for example water.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    edited February 2015
    - 1 1/4 cups of oats is roughly 100 grams

    -If the recipe you are looking at is from a US website, a cup of milk is 240 mL, otherwise, it's 250 mL. So a US 1 1/3 cup of milk is 320 mL.

    - 1/4 cup light brown sugar is roughly 35 grams.

    - 1/3 cup oats is about 27 grams.

    - 12 ounces of mixed berries is almost exactly 340 grams (340.194 g to be exact).

    Source: 2 years of logging food, while not being from the US.
  • HaggisWhisperer
    HaggisWhisperer Posts: 125 Member
    I bought myself a set of US measuring cups (be careful to get the right ones as UK cups and Australian cups are all different). I then use the cups the first time I do a recipe and then weigh what I've measured and annotate my recipes. I hate using the cups as a matter of course as I usually find myself having to wash and dry then several times during a recipe.
  • LiftAndBalance
    LiftAndBalance Posts: 960 Member
    This calculator is a decent starting point too: http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/conversions/grams/gram
  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
    1 oz = 28 grams - do the math.
  • yusaku02
    yusaku02 Posts: 3,472 Member
    nsoss wrote: »
    Cups is a measure of volume. Grams is a measure of mass. You can't convert from one to the other.
    This.
    The weight of 1 cup of marshmallows will be very different than the weight of 1 cup of peanut butter.
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    47Jacqueline wrote: »
    1 oz = 28 grams - do the math.

    There is a difference between fluid ounces and ounces.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,427 Member
    47Jacqueline wrote: »
    1 oz = 28 grams - do the math.

    Fluid ounces are also a measure of volume. Regular ounces are a measure of weight.
  • Katerina9408
    Katerina9408 Posts: 276 Member
    edited February 2015
    newsimone2015 wrote: »
    Hello! I live in Europe and we use grams, not cups. Can somebody convert for me 1 1/4 cups oats , 1 2/3 cups milk, 1/3 cup light brown sugar, 1/3 cup oats and 12 ounces frozen mixed berries? :D

    It depends on the consistency of the food, you can't compare a glass full of popcorn with a glass full of milk and frozen berries. Try to use scale or read the package who much it weights. For example 1 package of the oats I eat is 500 gr so I open them take a glass, pour it in the glass and measure how many glasses it is. So if it is 10 glasses => 500/10=50 gr is one glass and then I use this glass as a measurment....or simply buy a scale.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    I google conversions. "Cups to tablespoon" "gram to oz" etc
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    I enjoy this thread.
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