weight conversion

yellowbear

Morning everyone,

I have a recipe that calls for 3/4 cup (American) of butter.

The online converters I've looked at come out at 6oz.

Would that be right?

I've looked at loads and now I'm confuzzled!

thriftwizard

Sort of... if I were you I'd just invest a pound or two in a set of measuring cups, because American recipes work by measuring in volume rather than weight, and the same volume of, say, butter and flour, can be quite different in weight! If you're not in a position to do that, ¾ cup is roughly equal to a third of a pint or 180ml.

Before I had a set of cups, I just used a mug that was roughly the right size (240ml) - as long as you use the same cup/mug for all ingredients, it'll work!

yellowbear

Thanks. I do have a set of cups but I don't know whether the butter would be melted or soft or what. :think::undecided:huh:

Steve059

Cups are volume, weight is ... well ... weight. To convert between the two, you need you know the density of the stuff involved. A cup of feathers will weigh less than a cup of lead shot.


Fear not, someone has worked all these out for us ...

http://www.onlineconversion.com/weight_volume_cooking.htm


Using this, 0.75 US cups of butter, with a density of 0.959 g/cm³, converts to 6.002 ounces (weight).

Justamum

Whenever I use an American recipe, the first time I use it I measure the ingredients out in cups but weigh them and write that down on my recipe, so the next time I make it I just weigh everything. It's quicker and less messy to weigh ingredients rather than use fiddly cup measurements.