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About GramQx

About GramQx

GramQx is a free kitchen converter built for home bakers who follow recipes from both sides of the Atlantic. It started with a simple frustration: a US recipe says cups, a UK recipe says grams, and no converter asked which ingredient you meant before giving you an answer. So this site was built around one idea — name the ingredient first, then convert. Every tool on GramQx asks for the ingredient, shows the grams-per-cup value it uses, and writes out the formula, so you can check the maths yourself. Nothing is hidden, nothing is copied from another site's chart, and nothing costs anything.

The site is run by an independent home baker, not a company, and it is built for other home bakers. The conversion values follow the King Arthur Baking ingredient weight chart, measured spoon-and-level in a US cup of 236.6 millilitres, with USDA FoodData Central as the second source. Where King Arthur and the USDA disagree — flour is 120 grams per cup at King Arthur and 125 grams rounded by the USDA — this site uses 120 grams, names the source, and shows the other figure. That is the standard for every tool, table and article on the site, so a conversion done on one page matches a conversion done on any other page.

What GramQx Does

GramQx converts cups to grams and grams to cups by ingredient, and it converts the units around those conversions too: tablespoons to grams, millilitres to cups, ounces to grams, oven temperatures in Fahrenheit, Celsius and Gas Mark, and cake pan sizes. There are 51 free tools on the site, each with its own page and a full guide built into the page, explaining the method, the US–UK differences and the common mistakes. Every tool works in your browser, needs no account, and sends no data to a server. The site is funded by advertising through Google AdSense, which is why there are advertisements on the site — never over the tool, never as pop-ups, and never in a way that stops the tool from working.

How the Site Is Made

Every article on GramQx is written originally for this site, checked against published standard values, and updated when those values change. Charts are built from the cited values, not copied from another site. Photographs and diagrams are original. The site is built in plain PHP with a small database, loads fast, works on phones in the kitchen, and uses clean URLs with no file extensions. If you find an error in a conversion or an article, please tell us through the contact page — corrections are made promptly and the correction is noted on the page.

Contact

You can reach GramQx through the contact page, linked in the footer of every page. For conversion corrections, include the ingredient, the amount and the value you believe is correct, with its source if you have one. For advertising or partnership enquiries, use the same form. GramQx does not sell ingredients, does not take orders, and does not give personal cooking advice — for a serious kitchen problem, ask a professional.