Quite often, I am asked how many cups or fluid ounces (oz) are in a pound of honey? There is a lot of confusion, most of which is self-inflicted, because the honey industry and I have chosen to sell honey by the pound instead of a fluid ounce or other fluid measurement unit that most liquid food is sold by. Maybe it is because honey is sold as a sweetener and competes with “dry” sweeteners like beet sugar and sugarcane. Who knows how this madness started? Since most recipes call for liquid volume and not pounds, this can get quite confusing. Anyway, I think we are stuck with this situation so here is some help visualizing these measurements and some convenient conversion tips.
First, let’s see the volume that a pound of Whitfield’s Raw Honey occupies in a typical jar.
1 lb of honey. This is how you buy it!
Now, let’s measure 1lb of honey into a standard kitchen measuring cup so we can convert it to volumes normally used in recipes:
1Lb of honey (by weight) in a standard kitchen measuring cup
Next, let’s see how 1 lb of honey converts into fluid measurements like cups, ounces (fluid) and even milliliters (ml).
1lb of honey is approximately equal to 1.34 Cups, 10.7 Oz (fluid) or 317 ml.
The meniscus (what does meniscus mean?) obscures our reading a bit in this photo but l lb of honey equals approximately 1.34 cups or 10.7 ounces (Oz) or 317 ml. The following table might help you with other typical honey weight to volume conversions:
I hope this helps explain this conversion. Let me know if you have any questions. Happy cooking/baking and mead making!
1 cup granulated sugar = 1/4 – 1/3 cup raw honey
Caution, you may need to reduce the moisture in the recipe by 20-30% when using honey.
Check out my post titled “Don’t Wreck Your Honey.”
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I’m so confused! Can you please help me to figure out the following:
I’m filling small bottles (that look like little milk jugs) with honey for a wedding favor. The bottles hold 6 ounces of fluid (water). I’m trying to figure out how many pounds of honey I will need to fill 125 bottles. I can’t seem to figure out how to come up with the correct amount.
HELP!
Thank you so much!!
Lisa, there are 10.7 fluid ounces per lb. You need 6X125 = 750 fluid ozs. There are 10.7 fluid ozs per lb of honey so you need 750 ozs/10.7 floz/lb = 70 lbs of honey!
I suspect you are talking about 10.7 ozs (weight) of water, not fluid ozs. My honey has a specific gravity of 1.43. That means the weight of honey that will occupy 10.7 ozs of water is 10.7/1.43 = 7.48 oz or about 1/2 of a lb.
So, .5lb/bottle x 125 bottles is 62.5 lbs of honey.
Let me know if this helps or if you have any other questions. Please email me directly to get a faster answer. Thanks for your interest.
Ugh I wasted so much money on my mead I though a pound was 16 oz.