Food
Useful cooking measurement conversions:
1 dl about 1/2 cup 1 litre (L) 4 1/3 cups
1 cuillerée à café (coffee spoon) 1 teaspoon 1 cuillerée à soupe (soup spoon)
1 tbsp 1 verre à vin (wine glass) = 150 ml = 15cl 2/3 cup
1 grand verre (large glass) = 250 ml = 25cl 1 cup
1 verre ordinare ou à moutarde (ordinary glass or mustard glass “Amor= 120 ml = 12 cl 1/2 cup
Additional cooking measurements from What’s Cooking America or try Nathalie et Stephane‘s (Web site link) conversion chart or their conversion table in a .pdf document for printing.
A baguette of bread: 250 g = 8.825 oz
A half of beer: 25 cl = 0.52 US pt or 0.44 UK pt
Clothing
Bra sizes (found at the BreastTalk UK website ) Their cup sizing chart shows same cups between AA and D.)
Linear measure Quick reference
1 meter = 3 feet, 10 meter = 33 feet. 2 meter = 7 feet, 11 meter = 36 feet. 3 meter = 10 feet, 12 meter = 40 feet. 4 meter = 13 feet, 13 meter = 43 feet
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Centimeters into inches:
To find centimeters: Multiply inches by 2.54.
To find inches: Divide centimeters by 2.54
Square meters – square feet:
To find square feet: Multiply square meters by 10.76
To find square meters: Multiply square feet by 0.0929
Kilometers to miles:
To convert kilometers to miles: one kilometer is equivalent to 1,000 meters or 0.62 miles. Thus 20 kilometers is about 12.4 miles.
Eiffel Tower: 324 m = 1063.04 ft
Champs-Elysées: 2 km = 1.24 mi
Weight measure
Multiply kilos by 2.2046 for pounds
Multiply pounds by .45 to find kilograms
Tonnes to tons:
To find tonnes: Multiply tons by 0.9072
To find tons: Multiply tonnes by 1.1023
Temperature
Multiply degrees Centigrade/Celcius by 1.8 and add 32
Subtract 32 from degrees Fahrenheit and divide by 1.8
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