Okay, here’s my blog post about converting coconut oil cups to grams, written in the style you requested:
Alright, so the other day I was trying out this new recipe, a healthy-ish dessert thing, and it called for coconut oil. Now, I usually just eyeball stuff, but I was trying to be precise. The recipe listed the coconut oil in cups, but I wanted to use my kitchen scale because, well, it’s there, and I like using it. It makes me feel all professional, you know?
So, I needed to figure out how many grams are in a cup of this coconut oil. First, I did what any normal person would do, asked Google. Found what I needed.
I usually keep my coconut oil in the fridge, so it’s solid. Turns out, one cup of solid coconut oil is about 218 grams. Good to know!
My Experiment
- Step 1: The Setup I grabbed my trusty kitchen scale, a measuring cup, and my jar of coconut oil.
- Step 2: Scooping I carefully scooped the solid coconut oil into the measuring cup, making sure to pack it down a bit, just like the recipe said (or like I thought it should say… I kinda skimmed it).
- Step 3: Weighing I put the cup on the scale, tared it (that’s the fancy word for zeroing it out), and then scooped the coconut oil from the cup directly onto the scale’s platform.
- Step 4: Success BAM! Almost all my trails were always super close to 218 grams.
But here I got some tips for those of you who don’t have food scale. If you don’t have a scale, no biggie! You can also use the fact that one cup is about 8 ounces. It’s not perfectly exact, the conversion I found said about 224 grams, but honestly, in baking, a few grams here or there usually won’t ruin everything. Just don’t go crazy, and you’ll be fine.
So, there you have it. My little kitchen adventure in coconut oil conversions. It wasn’t exactly rocket science, but hey, now I know, and now you know. Happy baking (or cooking, or whatever you’re doing with that coconut oil)!
