Convert Units Calculator Blog #
Conversion guides built on the exact definitions (an inch is 2.54 cm, a pound is 0.45359237 kg, a US gallon is 3.785411784 liters), with every table’s arithmetic checked and every cooking weight tied to a named source like King Arthur Baking or USDA data. Each guide gives the factor, a mental shortcut and how close it gets, and the traps that cause wrong answers, like US versus UK gallons and fluid versus weight ounces. The blog comes from the team behind Convert Units Calculator, a free iPhone and Android converter that shows every unit in a category at once, turns cups into grams by ingredient, and works offline.
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- How many grams are in a cup of flour?: why it’s 120 g on one chart and 125 g on another, with cup-by-cup tables.
- Cups to grams conversion chart: 23 baking ingredients at every cup size, from King Arthur’s weight chart.
- How many tablespoons are in a cup?: the full spoon chart, plus Australia’s 20 mL tablespoon.
- US cup vs UK cup vs metric cup: which cup a recipe means and how much it changes the result.
- Celsius to Fahrenheit formula: a shortcut that’s actually exact, and an oven temperature chart.
- kg to lbs: body weight, luggage and gym plates, with pounds and ounces and stone.
- ml to oz: US and UK fluid ounces for common bottle and can sizes.
- Metric to imperial conversion chart: every everyday factor on one page, with exact values marked.
- How to convert units: the unit-fraction method, square and cubic units, and the conversions that don’t multiply.
- Best unit converter app in 2026: eight converters compared on range, currency, ads and price.