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Baking & Cooking Guides

Straight-talking guides to measuring, converting and swapping ingredients — no fluff, just the numbers that work.

Butter Conversions: Sticks, Cups, Tablespoons & Grams

US recipes measure butter in sticks; most of the world weighs it. Here's the exact butter conversion chart — 1 stick = 113 g — with cups, tablespoons and ounces.

September 3, 2026

Cups to Grams: The Complete Guide to Measuring Baking Ingredients

How to convert any recipe from cups to grams — what a cup of each ingredient weighs, how to measure it correctly, and when cups are fine versus when you should weigh.

September 3, 2026