Kitchen converter / red pepper flakes
Red pepper flakes: cups to grams
One US cup of red pepper flakes weighs about 95 grams. Convert any amount below.
1 cup of red pepper flakes=95 g
Weights are approximate — see the note on scooping below.
Red pepper flakes conversion table
| Measure | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| 1 cup | 95 g | 3.4 oz |
| ¾ cup | 71 g | 2.5 oz |
| ⅔ cup | 63 g | 2.2 oz |
| ½ cup | 48 g | 1.7 oz |
| ⅓ cup | 32 g | 1.1 oz |
| ¼ cup | 24 g | 0.84 oz |
| 1 tbsp | 5.9 g | 0.21 oz |
| 1 tsp | 2 g | 0.07 oz |
Whose cup?
A cup is not one size. The United States measures 240 ml, the UK, Canada and New Zealand use a 250 ml metric cup, and Japan's カップ is 200 ml — so the same recipe line can mean a fifth more or less flour depending on where it was written. Australia shares the 250 ml cup but uses a 20 ml tablespoon, the only one of its size.
This page is currently showing US cups. Switch standards in the converter above and every number on the page follows.
Why weighing beats scooping
These figures describe red pepper flakes measured the usual way, but a cup is a container, not a quantity. Flour packed tightly into the cup can outweigh the same cup loosely spooned by a fifth — which is the single most common reason a baked recipe comes out differently than it did last time. If you own a scale, the gram column is the one to trust.
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Red pepper flakes in other languages
Useful when you are cooking from a recipe written somewhere else — these are the names the same ingredient goes by in the languages Gather supports.
- English red pepper flakes
- German Rote Paprikaflocken
- Spanish hojuelas de pimiento rojo
- French flocons de piment rouge
- French (Quebec) flocons de piment rouge
- Italian fiocchi di peperoncino rosso
- Japanese 赤唐辛子フレーク
- Portuguese (Brazil) flocos de pimenta vermelha
- Portuguese (Portugal) flocos de pimenta vermelha
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