Kitchen guides

Practical guides to measure ingredients, scale recipes to another pan and get the oven temperature right.

Guides · October 14, 2026
Gluten-free Gluten-free flour substitutes Blend calculator by recipe type, plus what each gluten-free flour does. Charts by ingredient Cups to grams, ingredient by ingredient Flour, sugar, butter, honey… 23 ingredients with cups, tablespoons and grams charts. Measures How many grams in a cup? Chart by ingredient A cup of flour doesn’t weigh the same as a cup of sugar. Grams in 1, ½, ⅓ and ¼ cup for 23 common baking ingredients. Pans How to adjust a recipe for a different pan size Work out how much to multiply your ingredients by when switching between round, square and rectangular pans, with a chart of common US pans. Measures Tablespoons, teaspoons, cups and ml: conversion chart How many ml in a tablespoon and a teaspoon, how many tablespoons in a cup, and how measuring spoons differ between countries. Oven Oven temperature conversion: Fahrenheit, Celsius and gas mark Oven temperature chart in °F, °C and gas mark, how to convert between them and how much to lower the heat for a convection oven. Measures How many grams in a tablespoon? Sugar, flour, salt and more Weight of a tablespoon and a teaspoon of sugar, flour, salt, butter, oil, honey, cocoa, baking powder and more. Ingredients Egg substitutes for baking (with exact amounts) Egg replacements for cakes, cookies and pancakes: flax, chia, banana, applesauce, yogurt or aquafaba, with amounts per egg. Measures How to measure ingredients without a scale How to follow recipes in grams without a kitchen scale, and how to measure flour, sugar, butter and liquids accurately with cups and spoons. Ingredients Fresh, active dry and instant yeast conversion How much active dry or instant yeast to use instead of fresh (cake) yeast, how many grams in a packet, and why baking powder is not yeast. Ingredients Butter conversions: sticks, cups, tablespoons and grams How much a stick of butter weighs, how many tablespoons in a cup of butter, and how to substitute oil for butter. Servings How to halve a recipe (or scale it down for two) How to cut a recipe in half or scale it for fewer people: amounts, eggs, pan size and baking time so it turns out just as good.