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A cup of flour and a cup of honey weigh very different amounts, so pick your ingredient and this converter uses its real density.
That's about the same as a cup. That much of this ingredient weighs about 236.6 g.
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Densities are typical values for spooned-and-levelled ingredients. Packing flour into the cup can add 20%.
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Three things worth knowing
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One cup of water is 237 g
Water is the anchor: 1 ml weighs 1 g. Everything else is a fraction of that. Flour is about half, sugar is 0.85, honey is 1.4.
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Why America measures by volume
Cheap accurate scales arrived late in American kitchens, while cups and spoons cost nothing. Fannie Farmer standardized the cup in 1896 and the habit stuck.
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A cup is not always a cup
A US cup is 237 ml, a metric cup 250 ml, a Japanese cup 200 ml. Recipes rarely say which, so check the origin of the recipe before trusting the number.
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About kitchen measures
American recipes measure by volume (cups and spoons); European ones measure by weight (grams). Converting between them is impossible without knowing what is in the cup, because density differs: a cup of water is 237 g, a cup of flour only 125 g.
That is why this converter asks for the ingredient first. For liquids, a cup is a cup; for anything dry, the ingredient matters.