How to Convert Liquid Measurements

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Convert Liquid Measurements Convert Liquid Measurements

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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

Step1
Three teaspoons equals 1 tablespoon.
Step2
Four tablespoons equals 1/4 cup or 2 fluid ounces
Step3
Eight fluid ounces equals 1 cup.
Step4
Two cups equals 1 pint.
Step5
Two pints equals 1 quart or 32 fluid ounces.
Step6
Four quarts equals 1 gallon or 128 fluid ounces.
Step7
Three and one-half gallons equals 1 barrel.
Step8
Two barrels equals 1 hogshead.

Convert Measurements Within the Metric System

Step1
Ten milliliters equals 1 centiliter.
Step2
Ten centiliters equals 1 deciliter.
Step3
Ten deciliters (or 1,000 ml) equals 1 liter.
Step4
Ten liters equals 1 decaliter.
Step5
Ten decaliters equals 1 hectoliter.
Step6
Ten hectoliters equals 1 kiloliter.

Convert Between U.S. and Metric Systems

Step1
One teaspoon equals about 5 milliliters.
Step2
One tablespoon equals about 15 milliliters.
Step3
One fluid ounce equals about 30 milliliters (29.573 ml).
Step4
One cup equals about 240 milliliters (236.584 ml).
Step5
One quart equals about 1 liter (0.94635 L).
Step6
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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123rose said

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on 7/24/2008 how much liquid in a square foot

123rose said

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on 7/24/2008 how much liquid is in a square foot

whosthat said

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on 3/9/2008 1 part is less than a whole

whosthat said

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on 3/9/2008 1 part is less than a whole

kb999999 said

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on 3/9/2008 Thanks for all this info on one page! Now I won't have to stop in the middle of a recipe to go look measurements up ...

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