Dried pasta: cups to grams
1 cup of dried pasta (dry pasta) weighs
95g
In a 250ml metric cup (Australia, NZ): 100g
Pasta shapes pack differently, so a cup of each weighs a different amount. The headline figure is penne.
Cups
| Amount | US cup | Metric cup |
|---|---|---|
| ¼ cup | 24g | 25g |
| ⅓ cup | 32g | 33g |
| ½ cup | 48g | 50g |
| ⅔ cup | 63g | 67g |
| ¾ cup | 71g | 75g |
| 1 cup | 95g | 100g |
| 2 cups | 190g | 201g |
A US cup is 237ml. Use the metric column for Australian and New Zealand recipes.
Spoons
| Amount | Weight | Australian tbsp (20ml) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 tablespoon | 5.9g | 8g |
| 1 teaspoon | 2g |
Other ways it's measured
| 1 cup spaghetti | 91g |
| 1 cup macaroni | 122g |
| 1 cup farfalle | 81g |
| 1 cup fusilli (rotini) | 96g |
| 1 cup pasta shells | 64g |
Grams to cups
| Weight | In US cups | Exact |
|---|---|---|
| 50g | ½ cup | 0.53 cups |
| 100g | 1 cup + 1 tbsp | 1.05 cups |
| 125g | 1⅓ cups | 1.32 cups |
| 150g | 1½ cups + 1 tbsp | 1.58 cups |
| 200g | 2 cups + 2 tbsp | 2.11 cups |
| 250g | 2½ cups + 2 tbsp | 2.63 cups |
| 300g | 3 cups + 3 tbsp | 3.16 cups |
| 500g | 5¼ cups | 5.26 cups |
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Where these numbers come from
USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, food 20120: “Pasta, dry, enriched”. USDA lists these household measures for it:
- 1 cup spaghetti = 91g
- 2 oz = 57g
- 1 cup elbows = 122g
- 1 cup penne = 95g
- 1 cup farfalle = 81g
- 1 cup rotini = 96g
- 1 cup shells = 64g
- 1 cup lasagna = 90g
Fractions of a cup are the cup weight scaled down. The tablespoon figure is the cup weight divided by 16, since USDA doesn't list a tablespoon for this ingredient. The teaspoon is a third of the tablespoon. Metric-cup figures assume a 250ml cup, and Australian tablespoons hold 20ml. Weights under 10g are rounded to 0.1g, everything else to the nearest gram. Full source list.
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