Where to find a good weight chart for the kitchen?

October 13, 2009 1:55 PM

I'm looking for a poster showing the weights of various commonly used ingredients.

I like to use my kitchen scale when cooking because it makes cleanup so much easier, but most of my recipes are American and show measurements in cups, not ounces. I'd like to have a poster in my kitchen that showed things like:

1 CUP SUGAR = 8 OZ
1 CUP WHITE FLOUR = 4 1/4 OZ
etc.

Basically this, but pretty enough to put on the wall. Either ounces or grams is fine. Anybody seen an attractive chart like this?

posted by The corpse in the library to shopping (7 comments total)

Not what you asked for, but can I suggest one of these? Mine has American cups/pints, Imperial cups/pints, and millilitres, along with ounce/gram measurements for a pile of really common dry goods (oats, sugar, cornflour, rice, etc etc). Dead handy, although I had no idea there was an "English Cup" measure.
posted by Leon at 2:07 PM on October 13 [1 favorite]

King Arthur Flour offers this chart. It's not pretty, but you could print it and tape it to the inside of a cabinet door (which is where I keep my most frequently used baking recipes).
posted by MonkeyToes at 3:04 PM on October 13

Maybe you would use everything on that list, but it seems a little overkill to me.

I don't know how crafty you are, but have you considered making a list of the things you'd use frequently, then making a cross stitch or embroidery sampler or even some framed calligraphy?

If you're not a crafty type I'll bet you could find someone on etsy who could make you one (or if you hate kitschy needlework, maybe find an artist that can design you a nice print?).
posted by lilnublet at 3:06 PM on October 13

D'oh, my apologies.

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posted by MonkeyToes at 3:06 PM on October 13

Maybe this? (Scroll down. Keep scrolling.) This links directly to the .pdf.
posted by rtha at 3:24 PM on October 13

rtha, I was just coming back to post your links. Amazon has the chart too (but what's with all of these terrible images?).
posted by MonkeyToes at 3:31 PM on October 13

Hmmm. Close, rtha, but not quite precise enough...
posted by The corpse in the library at 5:54 PM on October 13