Free kitchen conversion chart SVG files

Which cup these charts mean

The charts use US customary measures: 1 cup = 16 tablespoons = 48 teaspoons = 8 US fluid ounces, which is 237 ml to the nearest millilitre, and 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons, about 15 ml. A US pint is 16 fluid ounces, 473 ml, and a US gallon is 3785 ml.

Cups differ elsewhere. The metric cup of Australia, New Zealand and Canada is 250 ml, a little larger than the US cup, and an Australian tablespoon is 20 ml, not 15. British recipes mostly give weights and millilitres; the imperial pint is 20 imperial fluid ounces, 568 ml, and the imperial fluid ounce is slightly smaller than the US one. A metric cup holds about 6 per cent more than a US cup, so for recipes written in metric cups, work from the millilitre column.

Oven temperatures and gas marks

The Celsius figures are true conversions rounded to the nearest degree, so 350 °F is shown as 177 °C and 400 °F as 204 °C. Recipes and oven dials usually round these again to the nearest ten or twenty, to 180 and 200. Gas mark 1 is 275 °F, and each mark above it is 25 °F hotter, up to gas mark 9 at 475 °F. For a fan oven, the usual advice is to set it about 20 °C lower than the recipe states.

Cutting and sizes

A chart inside a cupboard door is usually 200 to 300 mm across. The files are 100 mm on their longer side and the smallest figures in them are a little under 6 mm tall, so at 250 mm they are about 14 mm: easy to weed and to read at arm’s length. Below about 150 mm the fraction bars and equals signs get fine, so use the single tables, which have the largest lettering. The lettering is loose pieces: apply each table with one sheet of transfer tape. The plaque and the measuring jug are single pieces with the figures cut through.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

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