Kitchen tools

The things you end up looking up every time — measurements and temperatures — with the reasoning, not just the numbers.

Reference pages for the numbers recipes take for granted: cups and spoons converted to grams ingredient by ingredient, oven temperatures across Celsius, Fahrenheit and gas marks, and the core temperatures that tell you when meat is done. The cooking behind those numbers is covered in more depth in the cooking-basics guides.

• Cups to grams converterA cup of flour is 125g and a cup of honey is 340g. Volume converts to weight per ingredient, or not at all.
• Temperature and oven settingsCelsius, Fahrenheit and gas marks, what each oven setting is for, and where oils start smoking.
• Meat doneness temperaturesCore temperatures by cut — and how to judge the cuts that temperature cannot tell you about.

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