What Are The Measurements In Japanese Cooking?

Question

I'm trying to compile a helpful list for Japanese students, so that they can do an easy conversion when working with American recipes, but I'm not sure how everything is measured . . . grams, I think, for solids, and mm for liquids . . . but if someone could give more detailed information in simple terms, I'd be much obliged.

Mostly I'm looking for the conversions and measurements necessary for a Japanese-speaking person using an American recipe.

Answer 1

Madeline M is right but if they are in the US for a visit, it would not be much of a challenge to use the standard US measurements, for there return to Japan they will be converting so if you want to do it now fine, but then your going to have to get metric measures for them to use or a scale for weighing.

I am a former chef and di work in a hotel in Japan some years back, and they like the Europeans and here in Canada have embraced the metric system years ago, it is only the US that refuses to convert, a soverinty thing I guest, but do it both way so they can see the results in both methods

Answer 2

Oh, boy, you're in trouble. The Japanese often cook by weight, not volume. So while an American recipe would say "use 1 cup of flour" a Japanese recipe would say "1?? grams of flour."

When I'm re-working my recipes for Japanese students, I use my American measuring cups, and just weigh the ingredients on a metric scale. Then I make the notes right there on the recipe. This is probably the simplest way of doing things, although you'll get weird weights this way.

Answer 3

They use the metric system. Here's my Go To site

I use for conversion info, all the time. This will give you all of your answers with one simple entry.

Answer 4

CC is used for liquids as well and don't forget that most Japanese don't have ovens so don't come up with recipes for a turkey or anything like that. Toaster oven recipes are fine.