Cooking Conversion Charts - Get Your Cooking Conversion Table Here

When you start out learning to cook, knowing about cooking measurements is very important.

Quite often, the reason a meal may not taste all that great is because the ingredients haven’t been measured properly. There might be too much spice, or not enough herbs. There might not be enough meat for the sauce or vice versa.

When cooking delicious meals it is vital that you measure things out properly, and keep them in the correct ratios. By this I mean that if you are using a recipe that will feed 4 people, and you only want to cook for 2, then you must halve everything. This sounds basic, I know, but many a dish has been ruined by using double the amount of curry paste, especially if you don’t like your food too spicy!

While I’m on this topic, it’s also important to use the correct sized frypan or saucepan for the amount you’re cooking. Don’t use a huge frypan when cooking for 2, as the larger surface area will mean a lot of the juices and sauce will be spread very thinly, and will just evaporate away. Try to use a smaller pan for smaller quantities.

A common problem in the Internet age is that recipes you download from various websites will use different measuring systems. Some will be Imperial (such as liquid ounces, pints, pounds, degrees Fahrenheit) while others will be Metric (millilitres, litres, kilograms, degrees Celsius). Obviously some cooking measurement conversion is needed.

What I hope to provide you on this page is a list of some common cooking measures with their Imperial/Metric equivalents. Sure, you could convert them yourself, but I find it easier to see them at a glance.

So without further ado, onto the cooking conversion charts! I’ve presented them in table form with all equivalent measurements in the same row.

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