Help, how much does oil weigh?

Grumpysally

I've a cake recipe which uses 120ml oil. I want to use butter. How many grams will I need?


Thank you

Kevie192

4th result on Google here.

Use 144ml or so of melted butter.

Grumpysally

But I need to know what weight of butter to melt, I don't want to be wasting butter. : )

SailorSam

When i saw the title of your thread i thought, i remember from when i was in school a gallon of water weighs 10lb, so oil must be heavier.
But when it's oil for baking i'll usually use 2 glugs.

TBagpuss

I'd start with 50g, melt it and see. I'd expect it to be about 120g. melt it in the microwave in a measuring jug

flomac

60 grams is the equivalent of 125mls. Hope it's not too late to be useful!

ariba10

We use the same weight of oil as we would of butter.

(They both float on water so the specific gravity must be more ot less the same)

Fruball

Just punch in your amounts here and it will do the calculation for you

http://www.traditionaloven.com/culinary-arts/cooking/butter/convert-gram-g-to-milliliter-ml.html