Cooking Unit Converter
🇨🇦 Canada version
Canadian kitchens mix systems: recipes use a 250 mL metric cup, milk comes in litres, and the Canadian pint is the imperial 20 fluid ounce pint, not the US one. This converter handles those measures, adds 50 ingredient weights and a temperature tab for recipes that still give Fahrenheit.
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Cooking Unit Converter
Convert between cups, spoons, millilitres, grams and ounces — with real ingredient densities, so a cup of flour and a cup of honey do not weigh the same.
What are you converting?
Starts at Canada's usual cup; your choice is kept. Spoons follow Canada: a tablespoon is 15 mL.
125 g per US cup · spooned and levelled — only used when converting between volume and weight
The same amount, every way
Weight figures assume flour, plain / all-purpose. Click any tile to copy it.
Canada rules and figures
- Health Canada’s page on measuring ingredients is the source for the 250 millilitre metric cup used on this page.
- The Canadian pint is the imperial pint of 568.261 millilitres, 20 fluid ounces, and not the 473.176 millilitre US pint.
- Measurement Canada lists the units defined for use in trade under the Weights and Measures Act, and its GEN-50 page backs the pint figure.
- Recipes in Canada often still give oven temperatures in Fahrenheit, so the tool converts both ways and shows gas mark.
Sources: Health Canada: Measure ingredients like a pro (checked 2026-11-08); Measurement Canada: GEN-50 units under the Weights and Measures Act (checked 2026-11-08)
How the Cooking Unit Converter works
Volumes become millilitres and weights grams, and ingredient density links the two. A cup is always a number of millilitres first, so US and Canadian cups convert exactly rather than being treated as equal.
grams = millilitres × (grams per US cup ÷ 236.588); °C = (°F − 32) × 5 ÷ 9
- Canadian kitchen measures here are the 250 mL cup, the 15 mL and 5 mL spoons, and the imperial fluid ounce and pint at 28.413 mL and 568.261 mL.
- The US customary cup of 236.588 mL appears under other cup standards. Flour at 125 g per US cup is 125.0 g in that cup and 132.1 g in the 250 mL cup.
- A 250 mL cup of butter weighs 239.9 g at 227 g per US cup. A Canadian pint of whole milk weighs 586.1 g.
- The temperature tab can start in either scale. Choose Fahrenheit for an older recipe and the Celsius, gas mark and fan values follow.
How to use the Cooking Unit Converter
- Enter the amount. Type the quantity from the recipe, such as 1 or 2, into the Amount box.
- Choose two units. Use From and To. The Canadian list includes the imperial pint and fluid ounce next to the cup and spoons.
- Set the ingredient. Pick the Ingredient before you move between volume and weight. Butter, milk and flour all differ.
- Pick the cup. Open Cup standard to switch from the 250 mL metric cup to the US customary one for a recipe from the States.
- Convert oven heat. On Oven temperature, choose Fahrenheit and type 350 to see the Celsius, gas mark and fan values.
Example: A pint of milk, a cup of butter and a 350 °F oven
A Canadian pint is 568.261 mL, so whole milk weighs 586.1 g. A 250 mL cup of butter weighs 239.9 g. Plain flour weighs 132.1 g in a 250 mL cup but 125.0 g in a US customary cup. An oven at 350 °F is 176.7 °C, gas mark 4, and 156.7 °C with a fan.
When to use the Cooking Unit Converter
- Using an American recipe. Switch the cup to US customary so each cup of flour or sugar converts to the grams the author weighed.
- Buying milk by the pint. Convert a recipe’s imperial pints to millilitres or litres for the carton you have.
- Following an old Fahrenheit recipe. Type the temperature in Fahrenheit and read the Celsius dial setting and a fan oven figure.
- Cutting butter by weight. Turn a metric cup of butter into grams and then into tablespoons for a smaller batch.
What the Cooking Unit Converter does not do
- Ingredient weights are fixed single figures, mostly spooned-and-levelled. A packed cup of flour can weigh 20% more, so use them as a starting point.
- Only 50 ingredients are listed. Anything else, such as grated carrot or chopped onion, needs a weight from the packaging.
- The fan-oven setting is a flat reduction of 20 °C. Some ovens and recipes call for 25 °C.
- Volume units cover US, imperial, Australian and Indian katori sizes only; Japanese cups and metric spoons beyond the listed ones are absent. A pint or fluid ounce is not offered as a local unit in countries with no official size.
- The converter does not scale a recipe or change cooking times.
When something else is a better fit
- When you want to scale a whole recipe for more or fewer servings, use the Recipe Scaler.
- When you need general length, weight or temperature conversion, use the Unit Converter.
- When you need exact weights for baking science, use a kitchen scale and the weights printed by the recipe's author.
Questions about the Cooking Unit Converter
Is a Canadian pint the same as a US pint?
No. The Canadian pint is the imperial pint of 568.261 mL, or 20 fluid ounces. A US pint is 473.176 mL, so the Canadian one is about 20% bigger. The tool lists both.
What does 350 °F mean in Celsius?
176.7 °C, which the oven tab rounds to the nearest dial setting. It shows gas mark 4 and 156.7 °C for a fan oven.
How many grams are in a cup of butter?
239.9 g for a 250 mL cup, from 227 g per US customary cup. In a US cup of 236.588 mL it is 227 g exactly, which is why the cup standard matters.
Which cup do Canadian recipes use?
Most use the 250 mL metric cup, as Health Canada’s guidance does, while American recipes use 236.588 mL. Check the source of the recipe and change Cup standard to match it.
Does the tool convert grams to cups?
Yes, for the 50 listed ingredients. Choose grams in From, a cup in To and pick the ingredient. For example, 250 g of butter comes to about 1.04 metric cups.