Baking Measurement: How much is 200g in terms of tablespoons/cups?

Question

I am baking some macaroons and the recipe calls for 200g of flaked coconut, and I have no idea how much that is in terms of tablespoons or cups. I would really appreciate it if you could help me out with this :)Thanks

Answer 1

Sorry, grams cannot be converted into cups or tablespoons with a simple calculation. You need a scale to weight the ingredients in grams and then measure it in cups or spoons.

200g of flaked coconut would use more space in a measuring cup then 200g of butter.

Grams are weighted and milliliters (ml) are measured.

For your information one weighed ounces is equal to 28.3 grams.

Unfortunately I do not have any flaked coconut in my pantry so I cannot weight it for you and then measure it in order to give you the information.

Good luck !

Answer 2

No! The above answers are wrong! They are simply converting weight to weight for you. The problem is, ounces means two things: there are weight ounces, as in 16 ounces in a pound, and there are volume ounces, as in 8 ounces in a cup. The conversions the previous people gave you are weight ounces, the same thing you had in the beginning with grams. You still don't know how many tablespoons to use.

Grams are weight and tablespoons are volume, so the conversion will be different for every kind of food! (When things weigh about as much as water, you can estimate volume from weight, since 1gram water = 1mililiter water. This is what a lot of the other answers are based on. But, flaked coconut is way fluffier than water so you can't do that!)

Here is what you can do: look at the coconut package. How much does it weigh? If it reports the weight in ounces, you'll have to convert them to grams. You can avoid calculations and just type in the google search field "# ounces in grams" (# being the package weight). It will report the weight in grams. If the package already reports the weight in grams, you're one step ahead. (Remember this won't work if you've already used some!)

Then just divide the package weight by 200. If the package weight is, say 10 oz:

In google: "10 oz in grams" gives you 283 grams.
You only need 200, so you'd use about two thirds of the package.

P.S. you can convert almost anything with google, even languages! It also does calculations, if you're ever without a calculator.

P.P.S. the previous answer about using a cup of coconut might be a good ballpark, and in future you should just use your stomach to decide how to make something tasty. But if you run into this problem again, now you know what to do!

Answer 3

Go to FareShare Recipe Exchange or GourmetSleuth.com. They have charts with how much a cup of some ingredient weighs. They also have Metric/English conversions.

LornaBug is right. Volume ounces and weight ounces are different. This is because the morons who invented the English System gave the same unit name (ounces) to both volume and weight.

Trying to convert grams into tablespoons would be like trying to convert inches into pounds; it can't be done.

I just looked on GourmetSleuth.com..

200 grams of flaked coconut = 2.7 cups.

Hope this helps

Answer 4

I hope these conversions will help you

Cups Grams Ounces

1/8 cup
(2 Tablespoons) 16 g .563 oz

1/4 cup 32 g 1.13 oz

1/3 cup 43 g 1.5 oz

1/2 cup 64 g 2.25 oz

2/3 cup 85 g 3 oz

3/4 cup 96 g 3.38 oz

1 cup 128 g 4.5 oz

Answer 5

200g In Oz

Answer 6

I plugged 200g into the metric converter (site below) and it looks like it is 7.0548 oz, or nearly a cup. I would say that if you rounded it up to a cup no one would complain.

Answer 7

200 grams is roughly equal to 7 ounces.

1 Ounce is (roughly) 2 Tablespoons...

Answer 8

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