Category Cooking and Baking

How to measure rice without scales using a jug, tablespoon, mug or your hands. UK portion sizes (75 g per adult) with ml and spoon charts for 1–6 people.

How to measure butter without scales: divide a 250 g block with a ruler, or use spoons or water displacement. UK charts for grams, tablespoons and cups.

A stick of butter in grams is 113 g: a quarter pound, 4 oz, half a US cup or 8 tablespoons. See sticks to grams and how to cut one from a 250 g block.

Cups to grams butter for UK cooks: one US cup of butter is 227 g (two sticks), half a cup 113 g. Full chart plus how to cut cups from a 250 g block.

Cups to grams sugar chart for UK bakers: a US cup of granulated sugar is about 198 g, caster 190 g, packed brown 213 g and icing sugar 113 g.

Cups to grams UK flour chart: one US cup of plain flour is about 120 g, half a cup 60 g. Self-raising, wholemeal and other flours, plus a converter.

How to convert American recipes to UK measures: cups to grams, US pints and spoons, °F to °C with fan settings, plus UK names for US ingredients and tins.

Celsius to Fahrenheit oven temperatures for UK and US recipes: 180°C is 356°F (350°F on the dial). Full chart both ways, with gas marks and fan settings.

Fan oven temperature conversion chart for UK cooks: take 20°C off a conventional setting. Gas marks, °C, fan °C and °F side by side, plus a converter.

Gas mark 4 in Celsius is 180°C in a conventional oven or 160°C in a fan oven (350°F). See why fan ovens run 20°C lower and how gas 3 to 5 compare.