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I have a baking recipe that uses metric volume measurements. I’d like to convert deciliters to weight.

How much does a deciliter of flour weigh?

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  • We already have different questions for converting flour volume to weight, maybe the most canonical one is cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/2915/…. I still hesitate to close this one as a duplicate, especially because most people in the world are not aware that a "cup" is a standardized measurement of volume, so for them, an answer about the conversion of cups to weight is not useful.
    – rumtscho ♦
    Commented May 16, 2022 at 11:33
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    where is this recipe that is using metric volume of flour?
    – WendyG
    Commented May 18, 2022 at 14:54

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There can be no exact general conversion because flour's density depends on how it has packed into a space and also a little on the specific flour – this is why mass measurements are preferred for most serious purposes.

However, there are plenty of resources that will give you a suitable answer and any recipe using volume measurements for solids shouldn't be too dependent on small variations: the first one that came up for me when I googled 'dl flour in grams' was this which gives 52.1g. (The implied level of precision here is misleading of course.)

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    This is pretty close to the rule of thumb I learned which is that flour has a density of around 0.5 (g/cm^3 or kg/l).
    – quarague
    Commented May 17, 2022 at 13:40
  • @quarague Nice rule of thumb!
    – dbmag9
    Commented May 17, 2022 at 15:05
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Building off what @dbmag9 said:

According to Pastries like a pro

  • 1 Cup Sifted Flour ~114g, so 1 dL is about 48g.
  • 1 Cup Unsifted Flour ~140g, so 1dL is about 59g.

So, if it is "Sifted Flour" or "Flour, Sifted", you would have different weights.

I also looked at King Arthur Baking for "flour".

  • Averaging the Wheat flours came out to about 50.55g / 1dL.
  • All Purpose flour came out to 50.7g / dL.
  • Averaging all 48 types of "flour" listed came out to 47.18g/dL.
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dL (deciliter = 0.10 liter [100ml] = 100g of water)

'dL' is used in Sweden as a measuring spoon/cup and 60g is quoted for flour.

Translated from Umrechnung dl = g page listed below:

name dL
Sugar 90g
Flour 60g
Fine rye flour 50g
table salt 121.7g
Coarse rye flour 55g
food starch 80g
Syrup or Honey 140g
Almonds/Nuts 65g
raisins 60g
Melted butter 90g
oatmeal 30g

For those who are not in Sweden, IKEA seems to offer such spoons/cups:

VARDAGEN:

  • 1 ml (1 [Swedish] pinch = density g/ml)
    • table salt = 1.217g
      • 1 Cup (US) = 287.9278838205g=((1.217*0.2365882365)*1000)
        • 1/16 Teaspoon, pinch (US) = 0.3749060987g
  • 1 Teaspoon. (5ml)
  • 1 Tablespoon (15ml)
  • 1/2 Deciliter (50ml)
  • 1 Deciliter (100ml) = 0.4226752838 Cup (US)
    • 1 Cup (US) = 2.365882365 dL = 236.5882365ml of water
      • 100ml=236.5882365*0.4226752838

If you know that your flour is 140g per US Cup:

  • 1 dL = 59.1745397282g = 140/2.365882365

Sources:

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