If you love cooking and trying out different recipes in your kitchen, knowing how to convert from ingredient amounts from gallons to liters or other units of volume measurements is extremely useful. Experience the joy of culinary exploration with our precise conversion guide, allowing you to effortlessly convert liquid volumes. If you love similar resource posts, be sure to check out - How to start a food blog? and creating Google Web Stories to increase search traffic.

What Is A Liter?

A liter is a metric unit of measurement that defines the volume of one kilogram of water at a temperature of 4 degrees Celsius. One litre (as spelled in British English) is equivalent to 0.264 U.S. gallons or 0.22 Imperial gallons. It is a widely recognized unit of volume measurement used globally to measure liquids such as gasoline, milk, water, and juice, as well as fluids (liquids and gases) in scientific and engineering fields.

What is A Gallon?

A gallon is a unit of measurement of the volume of liquid in U.S. Customary units and Imperial units (links out to Wikipedia pages). There are three types of gallon measurements.

What is Imperial Gallon?

Imperial gallon is based on the volume of 10 pounds (i.e., 4.536 kilograms) of water at a temperature of 62 °F (17 °C). It is used as a unit of volume measurement in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth countries. Thus 1 Imperial Gallon equals 4.546 liters of water. It is about 20% larger than US liquid gallon (i.e., 1 Imperial Gallon = 1.20 US liquid gallon).

What is US Liquid Gallon?

The US Liquid Gallon (referred commonly as US Gallon) is a volume of 231 cubic inches. At 4 degrees celcius this volume can contain 3.7854 kilogram of water. Thus 1 US liquid gallon equals 3.7854 litres of water at 4 degrees celcius. When compared to Imperial gallon, US liquid gallon is about 16.7% less in volume.

What is US Dry Gallon?

The US Dry Gallon is a volume measurement unit for grains (such as corn, soy beans, and wheat) and other dry commodities. Though this is not widely used in practice, you will still come across its mention since it is connected to the common measurement unit of Bushel. One US dry gallon equals ⅛ Bushel. In numeric terms, 1 US dry gallon equals 268.8 cubic inches (i.e., 1 US dry gallon = 4.404 liters of water). Thus US liquid gallon is about 14.1% less than US dry gallon, whereas Imperial liquid Gallon is 3.2% larger than US dry gallon.

Conversion Table: US Gallon to Liters and Imperial Gallon to Liters

The above conversion chart is especially useful when dealing with large volumes of liquids. For example, a tourist may be interested to know how many liters of gasoline (petrol/diesel) was filled up in the fuel tank at a gas station. Suppose 5 gallon of gasoline was filled up at a gas station in the USA, then this conversion guide immediately allows one to know 18.925 liters of fuel was topped up in the tank. If you were in UK, and the fuel station reads 5 gallons, then it means 22.73 litres of gasoline was added to the fuel tank of your vehicle.

Conversion from US Gallon to Other Volume Measurements

When dealing with larger volumes of liquids it is useful to know how to convert between US Gallon measurement to other common and popular units of volume meaurement such as Quart, Pint, and Cups. This conversion table will be especially useful in large restaurant kitchens, catering kitchens, and community kitchens.

Conversion from UK Gallon to Other Volume Measurements

If you manage or work at kitchens in a school cafateria, restaurants at shopping malls, catering agency, community shelters, places of worship, restaurants, cloud kitchens, etc., then have the below table printed for reference to anyone who uses your kitchen. Easy access to this conversion table ensures accuracy in measuring volumes of different liquids used in your kitchen while creating multiple dishes.

Volume measurements in US cups are more commonly used in recipes due to the smaller quantities typically cooked at home compared to a restaurant. Thus the below table may be extremely useful for home cooks (irrespective of your expertise) to convert liquid volume measurements between US cups, Teaspoon (tsp), Tablespoon (tbsp), Milliliters (ml), and Fluid Ounces (fl oz). I have personally printed and laminated this liquid volume conversion table on a cardstock paper and kept it handy in my kitchen for quick and easy reference. Note: The values in this table are approximate and may vary slightly depending on factors such as the density and temperature of the liquid.

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