About Kitchen

Kitchen is a free helper for home cooks in India: converters for cups, spoons, grams and oven heat, a list of ingredient substitutes, pressure cooker times, storage times, and the English and Hindi names of spices, dals, grains and vegetables.

Where the figures come from

• Weights per cup are rounded household-measure weights of the kind published in USDA FoodData Central (United States Department of Agriculture, public domain). A cup here means 240 ml, filled level. Flour and other powders vary with how they are filled, so treat the figures as close guides.
• Unit conversions use the standard definitions: 1 teaspoon 5 ml, 1 tablespoon 15 ml, 1 US fluid ounce 29.57 ml, 1 ounce 28.35 g, 1 pound 453.6 g. Traditional Indian weights use the standard seer of 0.9331 kg (1 tola 11.66 g).
• Fridge and freezer times marked "food safety guidance" follow the cold storage guidance of the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the USDA. Rows marked "kitchen practice" are common household practice, not official figures.
• Cooking times, substitutes, names and notes are written for this site from ordinary kitchen experience. Times are ranges because cookers, stoves and ingredients differ.

Pages were last reviewed in November 2026. Nothing here is medical or nutrition advice.

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