Convert cups to grams for a recipe
A cup of flour and a cup of honey do not weigh the same. Per-ingredient conversion keeps American recipes usable on a scale.
Tools used in this guide
The job
US recipes measure by volume; most of the world bakes by weight, because a 'cup of flour' can be 110 g or 140 g depending on the scoop. Converting per-ingredient — not by one generic factor — is the fix.
Pick the ingredient
Choose flour, sugar, butter, honey, rice, and 12 more; enter the amount in cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, grams, or ounces; read the same quantity in every other unit. 1 US cup = 236.588 mL = 16 tbsp = 48 tsp.
Worked example
2 cups of all-purpose flour ≈ 240 g (120 g/cup); the same 2 cups of honey ≈ 680 g (340 g/cup) — nearly three times heavier. Butter runs denser than flour too: 1 cup ≈ 227 g, matching the familiar 2-stick pack.
Where it stops
Cup weights are averages — sifted vs packed flour differs ~10 %, brown sugar assumes packed. For bread-baking precision, weigh anyway and treat these numbers as the recipe's intent, not chemistry.