A teaspoon is a volume. A gram is a decision.

Volume changes with the shape and packing of an ingredient. Weight gives buying agents and cooks one stable quantity to carry from a recipe into a catalog request.

The headline example

Same teaspoon, different salt

Diamond Crystal kosher salt is about 2.8 g per teaspoon; Morton kosher salt is about 4.8 g. The same 1 tsp measure therefore carries 2.0 g more Morton salt—volume alone cannot tell the buying or recipe story.

Diamond Crystal kosher salt

1 tsp = 2.8 g

Morton kosher salt

1 tsp = 4.8 g

For buying agents

Convert a catalog measure into grams, ounces, and a price preview without copying culinary values into your own integration.

https://leafandlarder.com/api/convert?listing={slug}&qty={n}&from={unit}&to={unit}Open the conversion endpoint

Sellable catalog only

Catalog conversion table

These are the approximate measures supplied by the current catalog records. Missing units stay missing; a range is shown as a range rather than collapsed into a single invented value.

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Reference only

Common staples

Approximate kitchen references for items Leaf and Larder does not sell. They are not sellable catalog records and are never inputs to the conversion endpoint.

Not in catalog

Ingredient	Form note	Reference measure	Approx. weight
Diamond Crystal kosher salt	crystals as sold	1 tsp	2.8 g
Morton kosher salt	flakes as sold	1 tsp	4.8 g
Table salt	fine granules	1 tsp	6 g
All-purpose flour	spooned and leveled	1 cup	120 g
Granulated sugar	granulated	1 cup	200 g
Brown sugar	packed	1 cup	213 g
Butter	solid butter	1 tbsp	14 g
Honey	pourable honey	1 tbsp	21 g
Olive oil	liquid oil	1 tbsp	13.5 g
Baking soda	fine powder	1 tsp	4.8 g
Baking powder	fine powder	1 tsp	4 g
Cocoa powder	unsweetened powder	1 cup	85 g