American celiacs use terms like tablespoon, ounce, and quart in their recipes. Gluten free cooks in the rest of the world are probably confused since they prefer terms like liter, and gram. Since gluten free recipes are shared world-wide, we frequently need to make conversions.

Gourmet Sleuth provides on-line calculators that enable you make the conversions from one unit to another. They also sell hand-held calculators that enable any cook to make conversions.

 You may decide that Gourmet Sleuth provides “too much information”. If you do, try this link which provides a simple one-page chart that will answer most of your questions.

published: 12/04/08