How to Convert Liquid Measurements

Wondering how to convert ounces to cups, cups to quarts or tablespoons to cups? Sometimes this is just too much information to keep in your head when you're trying to cook or bake. Save yourself a headache and print out this eHow and keep it with your recipes.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Measuring cups
• Calculator
• Measuring spoons
• Paper
• Pen or pencil

Convert Measurements Within the U.S. System

1. Three teaspoons equals 1 tablespoon.
2. Four tablespoons equals 1/4 cup or 2 fluid ounces
3. Eight fluid ounces equals 1 cup.
4. Two cups equals 1 pint.
5. Two pints equals 1 quart or 32 fluid ounces.
6. Four quarts equals 1 gallon or 128 fluid ounces.
7. Three and one-half gallons equals 1 barrel.
8. Two barrels equals 1 hogshead.

Convert Measurements Within the Metric System

9. Ten milliliters equals 1 centiliter.
10. Ten centiliters equals 1 deciliter.
11. Ten deciliters (or 1,000 ml) equals 1 liter.
12. Ten liters equals 1 decaliter.
13. Ten decaliters equals 1 hectoliter.
14. Ten hectoliters equals 1 kiloliter.

Convert Between U.S. and Metric Systems

15. One teaspoon equals about 5 milliliters.
16. One tablespoon equals about 15 milliliters.
17. One fluid ounce equals about 30 milliliters (29.573 ml).
18. One cup equals about 240 milliliters (236.584 ml).
19. One quart equals about 1 liter (0.94635 L).
20. One gallon equals about 4 liters (3.7854 L).

Tips & Warnings

• The metric system is very easy to learn. It takes a basic unit of measurement (meters for distance, liters for volume, grams for weight) and then adds prefixes for smaller and larger quantities.
• "Milli-" is one-thousandth, "centi-" is one-hundredth and "deci-" is one-tenth of the basic unit of measure (liters, in this case).
• "Deca" is 10 times, "hecto" is 100 times and "kilo" is 1,000 times the basic unit of measure (liters again).
• Use approximations for easier conversions between the U.S. and metric systems.
• See Resources for online metric converter.

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