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Weight Conversions

When cooking from a recipe ensuring that you have the right amount of each of your ingredients is one of the most important aspects of getting the recipe right and having a nice tasty dish to eat. Most recipes will specify the amount of each ingredient as a weight with European recipes generally being in kilograms and grams, American recipes using pounds and ounces and UK recipes being a mixture, some using weights in kilograms and grams and some using weights in pounds and ounces.

If you are trying something exotic you may find that your recipe uses measurements that you are not familiar with. Below is a converter for pounds and ounces to kilograms and grams and vice versa. Simple converters are also available for pounds to kilograms, kilograms to pounds, ounces to grams and grams to ounces.

Kitchen Scales Weighing Broccoli

Pounds & Ounces To Kilograms & Grams Converter

Type values into either the pounds and ounces fields or the kilograms and grams fields to convert from pounds and ounces to kilograms and grams or kilograms and grams to pounds and ounces.

Pounds   Ounces  
lb oz
=
Kilograms   Grams  
kg g
Pounds   Ounces     Kilograms   Grams  
lb oz = kg g

Pound & Ounces - Useful Information

Pounds and ounces are imperial units of weight and are currently used in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland and other British Commonwealth countries. Although no longer the official units in Great Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth countries their use is still widespread and many older recipe books, using these measurements, are still in use.

1 Pound = 16 Ounces

The abbreviation for pounds is lb (lbs is often seen for values greater than 1) and the abbreviation for ounces is oz.

Kilograms & Grams - Useful Information

Kilograms and Grams are metric units of weight used in all European countries and most of the rest of the world. They are now the official units of weight in Great Britain, Ireland and British Commonwealth countries although their use is still not ubiquitous.

1 Kilogram = 1000 Grams

The abbreviation for kilograms is kg and the abbreviation for grams is g.

Common Ounce to Gram Conversions Table

Most of the common ounce to gram conversions are given in the table below (results are rounded to the nearest gram).

OuncesGrams
¼7
½14
128
257
385
4113
5142
6170
7198
8227
9255
10284
11312
12340
13369
14397
15425
16454
Ounces ¼½12345678910111213141516
Grams 714285785113142170198227255284312340369397425454

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Common Gram to Ounce Conversion Table

Conversions for gram measurements commonly used in the kitchen are given in the table below (results are rounded to the nearest ¼ ounce below 100g, to the nearest ½ ounce up to 250g and to the nearest ounce thereafter).

GramsOunces
10¼
25¾
50
75
100
125
150
2007
2509
30011
40014
50018
75026
100035
Grams 102550751001251502002503004005007501000
Ounces ¼¾791114182635

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Common Pound to Kilogram Conversions Table

Most of the common pound to kilogram conversions are given in the table below (results are rounded to 3 decimal places - the nearest gram).

PoundsKilograms
10.454
20.907
31.361
41.814
52.268
62.722
73.175
83.629
94.082
104.536
Pounds 12345678910
Kilograms 0.4540.9071.3611.8142.2682.7223.1753.6294.0824.536

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Common Kilogram to Pound Conversion Table

Commonly used values for kilogram to pound conversions used in cooking are given in the table below (results are rounded to one decimal place).

KilogramsPounds
0.51.1
12.2
1.53.3
24.4
36.6
48.8
511.0
1022.0
2044.1
Kilograms 0.511.523451020
Pounds 1.12.23.34.46.68.811.022.044.1

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