Erstellt am: 23. 1. 2012 - 11:28 Uhr

Today's Webtip: conversion tools

making sense out of weights and measures

Anyone who has tried to deal with international cooking has probably run up against the problem of measures. Those annoying cups and tablespoons can make it really difficult to get a recipe right.

To make things even worse, a cup is not always a cup, it depends on where the recipe comes from. And doing a straight conversion from volume to weight can be difficult if you don't know the weights of the ingredients being measured.

Allrecipes has a pretty good collection of tools for getting it right. They offer cup to gram conversions for basic ingredients, volume to weight tables for even more, as well as other tools that can help you with thinks like converting between U.K. and U.S. recpes.

And for those who want to think less and cook more, www.cooking-calculator.com is a good tool to fall back on. It does all the work for you.