Food measurement and conversions

Written by Catherine Saxelby on Wednesday, 31 March 2010.
Tagged: healthy cooking, healthy recipes, kitchen organisation, measures

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If you want to cook something from a recipe book from a country which uses imperial measures or you want to try out your grandmother’s favourite recipe that’s in pounds and ounces then you will need to convert the ingredient quantities. To help you, we have prepared this handy conversion guide for the kitchen.

All our Foodwatch recipes use metric cup and spoon measures, as is standard in Australia. These are:

one metric cup holds 250 mL (8 fl oz)
one metric tablespoon holds 20 mL (2/3 fl oz)
one metric teaspoon holds 5 mL (1/6 fl oz)

Imperial to metric conversions - click on a link:

Metric units at a glance
Dry measures
Liquid measures
Length measures
Oven temperatures chart

Metric units at a glance

Weights
g = gram
kg = kilogram
1000 g = 1 kg
Volumes
mL = millilitre
L = litre
1000 mL = 1L
Lengths
mm = millimetre
cm = centimetre
m = metre
10 mm = 1 cm
100 cm = 1 m

Dry measures

Metric	Imperial
15 g	½ oz
30 g	1 oz
60 g	2 oz
90 g	3 oz
100 g	3 ½ oz
125 g	4 oz (¼lb)
155 g	5 oz
185 g	6 oz
220 g	7 oz
250 g	8 oz (½lb)
280 g	9 oz
315 g	10 oz
345 g	11 oz
375 g	12 oz (¾lb)
440 g	14 oz
470 g	15 oz
500 g	16 oz (1 lb)
750 g	24 oz (1 ½ lb)
1 kg	32 oz (2 lb)

Liquid measures

Metric	Imperial
30 mL	1 fluid oz
60 mL	2 fluid oz
100 mL	3 fluid oz
125 mL	4 fluid oz
150 mL	5 fluid oz (¼ pint = 1 gill)
185 mL	6 fluid oz
250 mL	8 fluid oz
300 mL	10 fluid oz (½ pint)
500 mL	16 fluid oz
750 mL	24 fluid oz
1 L	32 fluid oz (1 ¾ pints)

Length measures

Metric	Imperial
3 mm	¹/₈ in
6 mm	¼ in
1 cm	½ in
2 cm	¾ in
2.5 cm	1 in
5 cm	2 in
6 cm	2 ½ in
8 cm	3 in
10 cm	4 in
13 cm	5 in
15 cm	6 in
18 cm	7 in
20 cm	8 in
23 cm	9 in
25 cm	10 in
28 cm	11 in
30 cm	12 in (1 ft)