Weights and Measures

[faustus]

I'm having fun with recipes. Some of my recipes are in British, and some in America, and some in metric and some in imperial, and some in combinations of those permutations. A lot of what I'm cooking from right now is in US cups - which makes sense for flour and sugar, but less so for butter.

And of course US cup is 8 fl oz and UK is 5 fl oz.

Now I see that US and UK fl oz are not the same; 29.57353 ml and 28.41307ml repectively.

Can anyone point me to a website that will tell me how much 8 fl oz of flour, sugar and especially butter would weigh, either in oz or g? Or know this kind of thing off the top of their heads?

I think this might be the sort of thing I'm after - but the weights and measures rather than the ingredient side:

Comments

Re: Is this any use?

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

"In the UK, the tablespoon is now defined as 18ml., and the teaspoon as 5ml. However, if you look at commercially available measures, the tablespoon is shown as equivalent to 15ml., with the teaspoon as 5ml. However, in reality there are 4 teaspoons to the tablespoon!"

4 x 5 = 18...