200 grams of flour in cups
Doubling a hundred grams of flour to 200 does not tidy the cup. 200 grams is about 1.7 cups, one and two-thirds, which you build in two goes: a full cup, then two-thirds of another.
One and two-thirds, built in two scoops
No measuring cup carries a 1 2/3 line. To reach 200 g by volume you fill a cup level, tip it in, then fill two-thirds of the cup again and judge the two-thirds by eye. That is two chances to drift, not one. A scale asks for none: 1.7 cups of flour is 200 g whether your second scoop ran generous or shy.
The heavier the batch, the heavier the error
Scooping error grows with the amount, and 200 g is where it starts to bite. King Arthur says a cup holds 120 g fluffed and up to 160 g pressed down. Fill your one and two-thirds cups the packed way and you carry about 267 g, 67 g over, two-thirds of an extra cup of flour the recipe never asked for. At 100 g the same habit cost half as much. The flour master page has the fill states behind these figures.
Bigger flour weights in cups
Reading up from 200 g, for a larger bake:
| Flour | US cups |
|---|---|
| 200 g | 1.7 cups |
| 250 g | 2.1 cups |
| 300 g | 2.5 cups |
| 400 g | 3.3 cups |
| 500 g | 4.2 cups |
A round weight rarely lands on a round cup. 100 grams of cocoa overflows to 1.2 cups, and 200 grams of butter stops just short of one at 0.88. The two flour weights past this one earned pages of their own: 250 grams, where the charts split over a round answer, and 500 grams, a German Pfund.
Questions about 200 grams of flour
- Is 200 grams of flour 2 cups?
- No, less than that. 200 g of flour is about 1.7 cups, one and two-thirds, on King Arthur's 120 g cup. Two full cups would weigh 240 g.
- How many cups is 200 grams of flour?
- About 1.7 US cups, one and two-thirds, using King Arthur's 120 g cup. It is a two-step measure, so a scale is steadier than scooping it out.
- Why is 200 grams of flour not a round number of cups?
- Because a cup of flour is 120 g, and 200 does not divide evenly by it. You land on one and two-thirds, a fraction with no line on the cup, which is why the reverse is a guide and the scale is the answer.
Sources
King Arthur Baking for the 120 gram fluffed cup and the 160 gram pressed cup. Full citations on the sources page.