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Have you run into problems converting ounces to tablespoons/cups or vice-versa? Thy Tran, cookbook author and founder of the Asian Culinary Forum provided Bakers Dozen members with a listing of sites where you can get conversion information. For anyone serious about cooking, this guide can be very helpful.
Here's a simple one geared specifically to the kitchen:
http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/blcalculator.htm
There are lots and lots of other resources online, some better than others. Just do a search for "weights measures conversion" -- adding baking or kitchen for more specificity.
Most standard cookbooks also have charts, though for a large set of recipes, it's handier to have a digital converter and then make your own chart in Excel with the ingredients and measures that appear frequently.
BOOKS
For editorial work, I recommend the conversion lists in the following books:
Recipes into Type, by Joan Whitman and Dolores Simon
The Recipe Writers' Handbook, by Barbara Gibbs Ostmann
The Food Lover's Companion, by Sharon Tyler Herbst
ONLINE
Here's a comprehensive online calculator. Not the best interface, but the site gives instant conversions for an impressive number of measures ever used around the world and throughout history:
http://www.convert-me.com/en/
Here's a simple one geared specifically to the kitchen:
http://homecooking.about.com/library/weekly/blcalculator.htm
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
There are lots and lots of other resources online, some better than others. Just do a search for "weights measures conversion" -- adding baking or kitchen for more specificity.
Most standard cookbooks also have charts, though for a large set of recipes, it's handier to have a digital converter and then make your own chart in Excel with the ingredients and measures that appear frequently.
ANOTHER USEFUL RESOURCE
We often can be without the right sized pan for a recipe. Figuring out the necessary volume for the pan and then converting the recipe is a headache. Here's a link that will help you with this problem.
Baking 911
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