Here we will show you how to convert 1 2 cup to oz. First, note that oz is short for ounces. Therefore, 1 1/2 cups to oz is the same as 1 1/2 cups to ounces. More specifically, we are talking about converting 1 1/2 cups to fluid ounces.

One cup is 8 ounces (oz). Therefore, to get 1 1/2 cups in ounces, we multiply 1 1/2 by 8. Below is the cups to oz formula, the math to convert 1 1/2 cups to oz, and the answer to 1 1/2 cups in oz.

cups × 8 = oz
1 1/2 × 8 = 12
1 1/2 cups = 12 oz

Do you need to find 1 1/2 cups converted to oz on your measuring cup? No problem! Below is an illustration showing you our measuring cup filled with 1 1/2 cups of water, which is the same as 12 oz, as we learned above.

How many grams are in a cup?

The number of grams in one cup is dependent upon the ingredient, due to differing ingredient density. For flour, 1 cup equates to around 125g. For sugar, 1 cup measures around 200g. For butter, 1 cup equates to around 227g.

Are you a 'cup half-full' or a 'cup half-empty' kind of person? Hopefully, you're the former, because it's going to take some patience, hope and determination to get to grips with the concept that is cooking with measuring cups.

Common cup confusion

In the UK, cups have rarely been used in recipes since the 1960s. If it's an old UK recipe, it'll use the imperial cup (284.131ml), which is significantly more than its more modern 250ml metric cup counterpart, now referenced in the UK as well as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the rest of the Commonwealth.

In the US, it's 236.59ml in recipes, but 240ml on nutritional labelling. Still with me? The mess begins before you've even cracked an egg.
With all this confusion around cup sizes, weighing in grams becomes a much easier and more accurate way to cook. It also helps you ensure your cake doesn't turn out somewhere between a concrete slab and a chocolate omelette. After all, depending what country your cups are from, how tightly you pack the ingredient in, and whether the top is heaped or levelled, baking can become a bit of a roulette game. And cake is not something to be messed around with. Not on my watch, brother.

We're here to help

As baking brethren, we need to stick together. So, we're being super kind and providing you with some cup to gram conversions, which you can find below. These conversions assume that your ingredient is being spooned into the cup and reference the US cup (236.588). We've also included measurements for cups to ounces for good measure (pun intended).

How to convert cups to grams

Let's look at how to convert a cup measurement to grams to get you a Bake Off-worthy cake.
To calculate the grams from a recipe given in cups, it's vitally important to consider what the ingredient is. A cup of ball-bearings will weigh much more than a cup of feathers (though both make for delicious pancake toppings, my toothless cousin tells me). Therefore, there's no single gram equivalent for a cup; salt can be as heavy as 300g, while fresh breadcrumbs would only come to 60g. It all comes down to the density of the ingredient.

To convert cups to grams, multiply your cups figure by 236.588 and again by the ingredient density (in g/ml). If your density is not in g/ml, you will need to convert your density figure first.
grams = cups × 236.588 × ingredient density (in g/ml or g/cm³)