Cooked Rice Converter: Dry to Cooked Cups and Grams

Recipes flip between dry and cooked rice without warning: one lists a cup of uncooked rice, the next wants four cups of cooked rice for the same dish. The amounts are not interchangeable, since rice roughly triples in volume as it cooks and the weight per cup shifts too. Pick your rice type, enter what you have or what you want, and read the matching amount in cups, grams, or millilitres. The table shows the dry and cooked figures side by side, so a single result answers both directions. Reach for it when:

  • Scaling a recipe to a cooked amount: enter the cooked rice you want and read the dry rice to start with.
  • Meal-prepping from a bag of rice: enter the dry cups you have and see how much cooked rice it makes.
  • Counting calories or macros: convert cooked rice in grams back to the dry weight your nutrition label lists.
  • Switching rice types: white, brown, basmati, jasmine, arborio, and sushi each have their own yield.
  • Working in grams or cups: move between metric cups, US cups, millilitres, grams, and ounces in one place.

Convert Cooked and Uncooked Rice

Rice type

Uncooked (dry) rice

Cooked rice

Uncooked: 1 cups

Cooked: 4.17 cups

How Dry Rice Becomes Cooked Rice

Dry rice is dense and hard; cooked rice is light and full of water. As rice simmers, each grain absorbs liquid and swells, so a small amount of dry rice fills a much larger pot once cooked. The converter uses a fixed volume yield for each rice type, drawn from the typical 180 ml of dry rice that cooks into 560 to 750 ml depending on the variety. Long-grain white, jasmine, and basmati expand the most, brown rice a little less, and short-grain sushi and arborio the least. The gram weight of a cup changes between the dry and cooked states, so the tool stores a separate density for each and never reuses a cup figure as a weight across states.

Choosing the Right Rice Type

Yield depends on the grain. A metric cup of dry white rice weighs 215 g and cooks to about 4.2 cups, while the same cup of sushi rice weighs 225 g and cooks to about 3.1 cups. Brown rice sits in between at 200 g dry and about 3.8 cups cooked. Selecting your variety keeps both the volume yield and the cooked density accurate, which matters most when you are weighing a portion for nutrition tracking or scaling a large batch for a crowd.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does a cup of cooked rice weigh?
A metric cup (250 ml) of cooked rice weighs about 165 g for white, jasmine, or basmati, 210 g for brown rice, and 200 g for sticky short-grain sushi or arborio. Cooked grains hold absorbed water, so the weight per cup is lower than the same cup of dry rice. The exact weight depends on the rice variety you cook. Open the white rice converter
How much uncooked rice makes 1 cup of cooked rice?
One metric cup of cooked white rice comes from roughly a quarter cup of dry rice, about 52 g. Brown rice needs a similar quarter cup near 53 g, while sticky sushi rice needs closer to a third of a cup, around 72 g, because it expands less. The dry amount scales in proportion to however much cooked rice a recipe calls for. Open the brown rice converter
How much cooked rice does 1 cup of dry rice make?
One metric cup of uncooked white, jasmine, or basmati rice cooks up to about 4.2 cups, as 250 ml of dry rice expands to roughly 1040 ml cooked. Brown rice expands less, to about 3.8 cups, and short-grain sushi or arborio reaches about 3.1 cups. These yields scale to any starting amount you cook. Open the basmati rice converter
Why does cooked rice weigh more than uncooked rice?
Rice absorbs water as it simmers, so the cooked grains carry that added weight and take up far more room. A dry metric cup expands to roughly three to four and a half cups cooked, depending on the variety, as the grains soak up liquid. That is why a dry gram figure cannot stand in for cooked rice: the density of each cup changes between the two states.
Does the rice type change the cooked yield?
Yes. Long-grain white, jasmine, and basmati rice expand the most, reaching about 4.2 cups cooked per dry cup. Wholegrain brown rice swells to about 3.8 cups, and short-grain sushi and arborio reach about 3.1 cups because the grains pack tighter and absorb less water. Choosing the matching rice variety keeps the cooked and dry amounts accurate. Open the sushi rice converter
Can I convert cooked rice grams to cups?
Yes. Each rice variety has a known cooked density, so a cooked weight maps straight to a cup measure. At 210 g per metric cup, 210 g of cooked brown rice equals one cup, and at 165 g per cup, 165 g of cooked white rice equals one cup. Any cooked weight converts to cups the same way. Open the arborio rice converter

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