Convert cup (US) to milliliter

What is a Cup (US)?

Cups are very common in American recipes and cooking. They are utilized for measuring both bulk products and liquids and they have their unique meaning. Thus, the volume of one Cup (US) is from 237 to 240 milliliters. It's also the same as half of an American pint.

In most cases, one US cup is taken as 240 ml to make the calculations and measurements more convenient. Since cups are a unit of volume, the weight of the measured products will be different. Therefore, while cooking, you may need special tables for the proper conversion of amounts of ingredients.

In addition, it’s worth mentioning that cups are not very accurate, for example, for flour. Its volume changes after sifting and grinding standards differ according to the country. The same happens with grated vegetables, fruits and cheese. Thus, one should be careful with cups and re-check the mass after taking the stated volume.

What is a milliliter?

If you need to measure a tiny amount of some liquid, you can do it using milliliters. These units do not belong to the standard systematic system but are still widely used in European and other countries. Such areas of life as medicine firmly stick to them and prefer them over all other options.

What does a milliliter mean? It corresponds to a 1/1000 part of a liter. The common designation for this option is mL.

If you want to imagine 1 mL, you have to think about a small cube with dimensions equal to 1 cm. Thus, it is the same as 1 cm3 that is a derivative of a systematic unit for volume measurement – a cubic meter.

In addition to their direct purpose, milliliters are also utilized for other derived physical units. For instance, density can be evaluated in g/ml3. Therefore, this option is quite common and popular.