What’s on the Tin Sizes poster
A 6-row table: Tin · Volume · Swap with.
Approximate volumes for common tins.
- 20 cm round — 1.4 L — 20 cm square is larger
- 23 cm round — 1.9 L — 20 cm square
- 20 cm square — 1.9 L — 23 cm round
- 23 cm square — 2.4 L — 25 cm round
- 900 g loaf — 1.5 L — 20 cm round
- 12-hole muffin — 1.4 L total — 20 cm round
A square tin holds about 25% more than a round one of the same edge length. Adjust baking time, not just quantity.
Questions about the Tin Sizes poster
- What’s on the Tin Sizes poster?
- A 6-row table: Tin · Volume · Swap with. Approximate volumes for common tins. 20 cm round — 1.4 L — 20 cm square is larger; 23 cm round — 1.9 L — 20 cm square; 20 cm square — 1.9 L — 23 cm round; 23 cm square — 2.4 L — 25 cm round; 900 g loaf — 1.5 L — 20 cm round; 12-hole muffin — 1.4 L total — 20 cm round. A square tin holds about 25% more than a round one of the same edge length. Adjust baking time, not just quantity.
- Who is the Tin Sizes poster for?
- Tin Sizes belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning equipment can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Tin Sizes poster?
- Match the area, not the diameter. Area scales with the square of the radius. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Tin Sizes belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Tin Sizes?
- Blenders & Processors, Cast Iron and Choosing Pans sit alongside Tin Sizes in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Blenders & ProcessorsCast IronChoosing Pans
- Is the Tin Sizes poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Tin Sizes downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Tin Sizes poster print at?
- Tin Sizes is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Tin Sizes loses nothing.Printing guide
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