A cup of flour and a cup of honey don't weigh the same — not even close. CupScale converts by ingredient, not just by volume, so your baking actually turns out the way it should.
The full table, for when you just need the number.
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A cup measures space — how much room something takes up. A gram measures mass. Flour is light and full of air pockets, so a cup of it weighs little. Honey is dense and clings together, so a cup of it weighs nearly three times as much. Same cup, very different ingredient.
Cups are fast and don't need a scale. For forgiving recipes — soups, sautés, most everyday cooking — that's fine. For baking, where ratios matter more, weight is more reliable, which is why European and professional recipes lean on grams.
Yes — packing (common with brown sugar) presses out the air pockets, so a packed cup weighs noticeably more than a loosely spooned one. The values here assume standard preparation for each ingredient — packed for brown sugar, sifted-then-spooned for flour, level for most others.