Cups of chocolate chips to grams
1 cup of chocolate chips = 168 g
Chocolate chips in USDA's data: ½ cup = 84 g · ¼ cup = 42 g · 1 tbsp = 10.5 g. Large chips, a cup is 182 g.
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Ingredient: semisweet chocolate chips, 168 g per US cup
168 g
That is 5.93 oz by weight.
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Cups of chocolate chips in grams
US cups, level. Spoon amounts are worked out from the cup weight.
| Amount | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| 1 tsp | 3.5 g | 0.12 oz |
| 1 tbsp | 10.5 g | 0.37 oz |
| ⅛ cup | 21 g | 0.74 oz |
| ¼ cup | 42 g | 1.48 oz |
| ⅓ cup | 56 g | 1.98 oz |
| ½ cup | 84 g | 2.96 oz |
| ⅔ cup | 112 g | 3.95 oz |
| ¾ cup | 126 g | 4.44 oz |
| 1 cup | 168 g | 5.93 oz |
| 1½ cups | 252 g | 8.89 oz |
| 2 cups | 336 g | 11.9 oz |
| 3 cups | 504 g | 17.8 oz |
| 4 cups | 672 g | 23.7 oz |
Grams of chocolate chips in cups
| Grams | Cups | Measure |
|---|---|---|
| 25 g | 0.15 | ≈ 2 tbsp |
| 50 g | 0.3 | ≈ ¼ cup + 1 tbsp |
| 75 g | 0.45 | ≈ ⅓ cup + 2 tbsp |
| 100 g | 0.6 | ≈ ½ cup + 2 tbsp |
| 125 g | 0.74 | ≈ ¾ cup |
| 150 g | 0.89 | ≈ ¾ cup + 2 tbsp |
| 200 g | 1.19 | ≈ 1 cup + 3 tbsp |
| 250 g | 1.49 | ≈ 1½ cups |
| 300 g | 1.79 | ≈ 1¾ cups + 1 tbsp |
| 400 g | 2.38 | ≈ 2⅓ cups + 1 tbsp |
| 500 g | 2.98 | ≈ 3 cups |
A cup of semisweet chips is 168 g: the classic 6-ounce bag is one cup, so a 12-ounce bag is two. Larger chips settle looser and a cup runs to 182 g.
Where this number comes from
USDA FoodData Central lists 1 cup chips (6 oz package) of “Candies, semisweet chocolate” at 168 g, and 1 cup large chips at 182 g (FDC ID 167976, SR Legacy).
Everything else is worked out from that figure: spoons from 1 cup = 16 tablespoons = 48 teaspoons, and ounces and pounds from their exact definitions (1 oz = 28.349523125 g, 1 lb = 453.59237 g, NIST).
Source: FoodData Central, USDA Agricultural Research Service.
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