Garlic salt

One US cup of garlic salt weighs 226.8 grams (8 ounces). Going the other way, 100 grams is about 0.44 cups.

Also called garlic seasoning salt, salt and garlic, garlic and salt seasoning.

A teaspoon of garlic salt weighs about 4.7 g, and a cup about 226.8 g (8 oz). Chef's Resources and Gneiss Spice's measured half cup agree within 2.6%; garlic salt sits between salt and garlic powder because it is a blend of the two.

Garlic salt is fine salt mixed with dried garlic, usually granulated garlic or garlic powder, often with a little parsley and an anti-caking agent. It seasons garlic bread, popcorn, roasted potatoes, steak and burgers and dips. It is not a substitute for garlic powder spoon for spoon: most of what is in the spoon is salt.

Chef's Resources gives garlic salt at 8 oz per cup, 226.8 g, 4.72 g a teaspoon. Gneiss Spice, a small Maine spice maker, sells a half-cup refill of its garlic salt at a net weight of 3.9 oz, 221.1 g a cup. The two are 2.6% apart, and this site publishes Chef's Resources' 226.8 g. Confidence is medium: there is no USDA record for garlic salt, and the two measurements come from different products.

Labels spread widely. Lawry's garlic salt, which includes parsley, prints a quarter teaspoon at 0.9 g (173 g a cup); one McCormick listing says 1.4 g (269 g) and Dutch Valley 1.0 g (192 g). A quarter teaspoon rounded to a tenth of a gram is too small a measure to decide a figure, and brands mix very different shares of salt and garlic, so they are listed without figures.

King Arthur Baking's chart has no garlic salt row.

The physical check: the components set the limits. Table salt weighs 292 g a cup on this site, about 6 g a teaspoon, and garlic powder about half that, 127 to 155 g. A blend of three parts salt to one part garlic powder by weight would weigh about 230 g a cup if the two simply shared the space, which is where the measured 221 to 227 g sit. Lawry's lighter label fits a blend with parsley flakes, which are mostly air.

Because it is mostly salt, garlic salt also measures like salt: it pours freely and levels cleanly, so one level spoonful is much like the next.

Practical guidance: use 4.7 g per teaspoon of garlic salt, 14 g per tablespoon and about 227 g per cup. Most of a teaspoon of garlic salt is salt, so cut the recipe's other salt when you use it. To replace a teaspoon of garlic salt, use about three quarters of a teaspoon of table salt and a quarter teaspoon of garlic powder.