Are you confused and unable to figure out how many cups are in 32 oz? Please do not get confused, as I will explain in this post, how to divide 32 ounces into cups that include fluid and dry ounces.
These are the common conversions from ounces to cups one could encounter while cooking in the kitchen.
It is often difficult to figure out how to measure such conversions when we do not have a measuring or food scale to convert them easily.
Let us try to understand cups and ounces in short and their definitions below.
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What is an Ounce?
An ounce is a unit that can measure weight or volume in US customary system, and here the ounce I am mentioning is both dry and liquid ounces.
The US ounce measures the mass or weight and volume but to differentiate both the measures, we use ounces and fluid ounces. That is, a dry ounce is abbreviated as oz. and a fluid ounce as fl. Oz.
If you are talking of dry ounces, it is the unit to measure weight or mass and is denoted by oz. If it is a liquid measure, it is a fluid ounce denoted as fl. Oz.
In terms of weight, an ounce is 1/ 16 of a pound, equal to 28.34 grams, and in terms of volume, an ounce equals 29.57 ml.
In the Imperial and US customary systems, it is common to come across these measures, and most of the volume and weight are represented in ounces for small quantities.
What is a cup?
A cup is a form of measurement in cooking, and this is the unit of volume commonly used in the kitchen while adding ingredients mainly in baking other than tablespoons or teaspoons.
A cup can hold dry ounces or dry substances and liquid substances too.
A cup can hold 8 fluid ounces, and 1 cup equals 16 tablespoons, to be precise, and this is how the ingredients are divided and used to add to various recipes.
1 US cup = 8 fl. Oz
Or
1 US cup = 16 tablespoons
Why do we need cups and ounces?
An ingredient in the recipe is often mentioned in ounces(oz) for dry and liquid substances, and converting them into cups can be challenging.
If we understand and learn the basic maths of converting the ounces into cups, it makes cooking easy and fun.
How many cups are in 32 ounces (fluid oz to cups)
To understand this conversion, let us first try to understand how many cups are 1 ounce, and the details we mention below are for liquid ingredients in terms of their volume, such as water or milk equivalent.
If you convert liquids in terms of volume, such as water, each cup equals 8 ounces. Here, we convert fluid ounces(a unit of volume) to cups(a unit of volume).
One ounce equals 0.125 cups or â…› of a cup; that is,
1 oz = â…› cup or 0.125 cups.
AND
8 oz = 1 cup,
Therefore, the formula to calculate various ounces to cups is
Cups = Ounce/8
With the above formula, calculating 32 fluid ounces to cups, we get
32 oz = 32/8 = 4 US cups
Therefore, the answer to how many cups in 32 oz is 4 cups.
Similarly, we can calculate any number of ounces into cups. The above formula is only for converting fluid ounces(volume) to US cups.
A simple technique is to divide the ounce value by 8, and you get the results for cups.
Some examples of fluid ounces to US cups are mentioned below and know what is 32 oz in cups for water, milk, oil, etc.
The results remain the same for every ingredient, converting from volume(fl. oz) to volume(cups).
If trying to convert from dry ounces(unit of weight) to volume, the results vary as different ingredients have different densities and the ounces to cups for various food items vary.
32 ounces(volume) to cups examples
32 oz is how many cups for water?
Since water is a fluid and when trying to convert 32 US fluid ounces to US cups, it equals 4 cups.
32 oz of water = 4 cups.
How many cups are 32 ounces of milk?
32 oz of milk = 4 oz
Thus, any fluid ounces to cups will be easy, and the formula is ounces divided by 8.
US fluid ounces to cups table
| US Fluid ounces | US cups |
| 8 fl. oz | 1 cup |
| 16 fl. oz | 2 cups |
| 24 fl oz | 3 cups |
| 32 fl oz | 4 cups |
32 ounces(dry ounces) to US cups
In detail, let us now check how it varies for dry ounces(weight) to cups(volume) below.
If you are trying to convert any food substance such as milk, water, oil, flour, or sugar in terms of their weight to cups and not by volume to cups, the results are different for each ingredient.
In short, converting ingredients from weight to volume can vary for each ingredient.
Here are some examples of 32 dry ounces of flour, sugar, etc., in US cups that vary according to weight.
32 oz of all-purpose flour to US cups = 7.25 cups( 1 cup of all-purpose flour equals 4.4 oz)
32 oz of water (by weight) = 3.83 cups or ~4 cups
32 ounces of milk = 3.7 cups or ~4 cups
32 oz of powdered sugar = 7.5 cups
32 ounces of granulated sugar = 4.52 cups
US dry ounces to cups table for 32 oz ingredients(weight to volume)
| Ingredient | Dry Ounces(weight) | Cups |
| all-purpose flour | 32 oz | 7.25 cups |
| water | 32 oz | 3.83 cups |
| milk | 32 oz | 3.7 cups |
| powdered sugar | 32 oz | 7.5 cups |
| granulated sugar | 32 oz | 4.52 cups |
| Cake flour | 32 oz | 7.96 cups |
| Almond flour | 32 oz | 9.44 cups |
| butter | 32 oz | 4 cups |
What impact do wrong measures cause in cooking?
If you are trying to convert dry ounces to cups, we can see from the above data how each result varies because each ingredient has a different density.
If you ever encounter recipe instructions that mention 32 oz of flour, and instead of adding 7.25 cups, if we add 4 cups, the outcome can be a disaster.
This is why chefs use a food scale to measure ingredients while cooking, as they have to cook on a large scale.
Measuring ingredients using a food scale gives us accuracy, and the recipe has a chance never to go wrong.
A food scale helps to measure all the ingredients by weight, and whenever we come across dry substances or dry ounces, I suggest using a food scale to bring accuracy.
In short, if you try converting US fluid ounces to cups, 1 fl. oz = â…› cup, or divide any ounce by 8 to get cup value.
Similarly, 8 fluid ounces equals 1 cup, and 4 fluid ounces equals half cup(½) cup.
Using a scale to convert from dry ounces to cups is better. Add the ingredients to a cup by leveling them and measuring their ounces on the scale before adding them to your recipe.
Dry ounces to cups examples
How many cups are in 32 oz of rice?
To divide 32 oz of rice into cups, it is approximately 6.65 cups.
How many cups is in 32 oz of chicken broth?
A chicken broth sold in the market can be 14.5 oz, 32 oz, 48 oz, etc., representing their weight.
They mention their ounces and weight in grams, and it is confusing to know how many cups they can be.
Let us try to check it out below and figure it out.
Since it is a broth and has water in more quantity, considering its density equal to water, a 14.5 oz can of chicken broth is approximately 1.74 cups.
If you buy 32 oz of chicken broth, it will be 3.83 cups.
If you buy 48 oz of chicken broth, it will be 5.75 cups.
To keep it easy, since the broth contains more water, remember that 1 cup is approximately 8 ounces and calculate accordingly.
How many cups is 32 oz of flour?
All-purpose flour = 7.25 cups,
Cake flour = 7.96 cups,
Almond flour = 9.44 cups
Each flour density is different, and while measuring weight, the densities of each ingredient need to be measured, and that is why each flour measures differently in cups for 32 oz.
Conclusion
I hope this post cleared the difference in converting volume(fluid ounces) to cups and weight(ounces) to volume for ingredients weighing 32 fluid ounces and dry ounces.
In short, a 32 oz to cup is 4 cups for fluid ounces, and if you use dry ounces, the cup size varies for different ingredients.
Still any doubts, leave us your questions in the comments below, and I will clear your doubts shortly.
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