Bread flour: cups to grams
Bread flour has more protein than all-purpose flour, which builds the stronger gluten you want in chewy loaves, bagels and pizza dough. A spooned-and-levelled cup weighs the same as all-purpose: about 120 g.
Bread flour: cups to grams
| US cups | Grams |
|---|---|
| ⅛ cup | 15 g |
| ¼ cup | 30 g |
| ⅓ cup | 40 g |
| ½ cup | 60 g |
| ⅔ cup | 80 g |
| ¾ cup | 90 g |
| 1 cup | 120 g |
| 1½ cups | 180 g |
| 2 cups | 240 g |
| 3 cups | 360 g |
| 4 cups | 480 g |
Tablespoons and teaspoons
| Spoon | Grams |
|---|---|
| 1 tablespoon | 8 g |
| 2 tablespoons | 15 g |
| ¼ cup (4 tablespoons) | 30 g |
| 1 teaspoon | 3 g |
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Grams to cups
Going the other way, for a metric recipe in US cups:
| Grams | Cups of bread flour |
|---|---|
| 25 g | about 3½ tbsp |
| 50 g | about ⅜ cup |
| 100 g | about ⅞ cup |
| 125 g | about 1 cup |
| 150 g | about 1¼ cups |
| 200 g | about 1⅔ cups |
| 250 g | about 2⅛ cups |
| 300 g | about 2½ cups |
| 400 g | about 3⅓ cups |
| 500 g | about 4⅛ cups |
| 1 kg | about 8⅓ cups |
What to buy
It's sold as strong white flour or strong bread flour in the UK, and as bread and pizza flour in Australia. Look for 12–14% protein on the label.
Weigh your water too
Bread recipes are usually written as a ratio of water to flour. With both in grams (1 ml of water weighs 1 g) you can scale a dough up or down exactly.
Weights are for a level US cup (236.6 ml), spooned in, based on published baking ingredient-weight charts. Weighing will always be more accurate than any cup.