Convert cups, spoons, millilitres and fluid ounces in your browser — with the cup standard your recipe actually uses.
A cup is not a unit, it is a family of units. Brazilian recipes and modern American ones normally mean 240 ml, the metric cup used in Europe and Australia is 250 ml, older Brazilian cookbooks were written around a 200 ml cup, and the strict US customary cup is 236.6 ml. That spread of 50 ml is enough to change the texture of a cake, which is why this converter asks which standard your recipe assumes instead of silently guessing one. Spoons, thankfully, are standardized: a tablespoon is 15 ml, a dessert spoon 10 ml, a teaspoon 5 ml and a coffee spoon 2.5 ml — the same everywhere, and unrelated to the cutlery in your drawer.
The math is deliberately simple and fully visible. Every amount is converted to millilitres using the factor for its unit, and then divided by the factor of each target unit, so the whole equivalence table updates as you type: cups, tablespoons, dessert spoons, teaspoons, coffee spoons, the Brazilian "copo americano" of 190 ml, millilitres, litres and US fluid ounces. The input accepts whole numbers, decimals with a comma or a dot, and cooking fractions such as 3/4, 1 1/2 or ½ — because that is how recipes are written. Results are shown with up to eight significant digits and any row can be clicked to copy.
One caveat matters more than all the conversions: volume is not weight. A 240 ml cup holds roughly 122 g of all-purpose flour but 203 g of granulated sugar, and how tightly the flour is packed changes that by 15% or more. For bread and pastry, a kitchen scale beats any cup. The tool shows those approximate weights for flour, sugar, butter and milk as a reference, and everything — table, fractions and copying — runs entirely in your browser, with no request to any server.
Each amount is converted to millilitres and then divided by the target unit: cup = the standard you pick (240, 250, 200 or 236.6 ml), tablespoon = 15 ml, dessert spoon = 10 ml, teaspoon = 5 ml, coffee spoon = 2.5 ml, "copo americano" = 190 ml, US fluid ounce = 29.5735 ml, litre = 1000 ml. So one 240 ml cup = 16 tablespoons = 48 teaspoons.
In Brazilian and modern American recipes, one cup is 240 ml. The metric cup used in Europe and Australia is 250 ml, older Brazilian cookbooks assume 200 ml, and the strict US customary cup is 236.6 ml — pick the standard in the selector to match your recipe.
Sixteen, in a 240 ml cup, since a tablespoon is 15 ml. A 250 ml metric cup holds about 16.7 tablespoons and a 200 ml cup about 13.3 — another reason to set the standard before converting.
Yes. Both are 15 ml, and the teaspoon is 5 ml in both. Only the cup changes between countries and eras — which is exactly the ambiguity this tool exists to remove.
Not exactly, because cups measure volume and grams measure weight, and the answer depends on the ingredient. The result panel shows the approximate weight of one cup of flour, sugar, butter and milk as a reference; for baking, weighing is always more reliable than measuring.
No. The conversion table is generated locally in JavaScript on your device — nothing you type is transmitted, stored or logged.
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