Dashes to Liters (dash to L)

1 dash equals 0.0006161151992 liters (rounded).

1 dash = 0.0006161151992 liters

How to convert dashes to liters

To convert dashes to liters, multiply the number of dashes by 0.0006161151992. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply liters by 1,623.07309 (rounded).

liters = dashes × 0.0006161151992

Example: 10 dashes = 0.006161151992 liters.

Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.

Approximate value. Standards for the dash varied by place and period, so this converter uses the most commonly cited value. Treat results as estimates, not exact figures.

About these units

Dash (dash)

Cooking & barTraditional unit (still used in some regions)Approximate value

A quick shake from a bottle; the conventional measure is 1/8 of a teaspoon (about 0.62 mL).

Recipes asking for a dash of bitters or a dash of salt rely on a word that simply means a quick, sudden motion, here a brief shake or splash from a bottle or shaker. There is no legal definition, and Wikipedia's article on cooking weights and measures lists the dash among the drop, smidgen and pinch as the units most commonly understood to be approximate. Early cookbooks relied on such vague amounts until Fannie Farmer pushed exact volume measures in her 1896 book.

Where a number is wanted, the convention is that a dash is one eighth of a US teaspoon, twice a pinch and half a saltspoon. One eighth of a US teaspoon is about 0.62 mL, the figure used here. The same Wikipedia table prints 0.46 mL, which comes from a fluid ounce fraction and does not match its own teaspoon fraction, so that smaller number is best treated as a slip. In real use a dash from a bar bottle depends on the nozzle and the wrist, so the conventional size is only a guide.

1 dash = 0.0006161151992 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Cooking weights and measures; Wikipedia: Pinch (unit)

Liter (L)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One cubic decimeter (1,000 cm³). The everyday metric unit of volume for drinks, fuel and cooking.

The liter was born in revolutionary France. In 1795 it was introduced as a republican unit and defined as one cubic decimeter, while the gram was tied to a cubic centimeter of water. The name comes from the older French litron, itself descended from a Byzantine Greek unit of weight, not volume. A small revision of the decimeter in 1798 left the first liter about 1.000974 of today's cubic decimeter, and in 1879 the international metric authorities adopted the liter with the symbol l.

The liter then took a strange detour. In 1901 it was redefined as the space taken up by one kilogram of pure water at its densest, which made it about 1.000028 cubic decimeters, and that muddled definition lasted until 1964, when it was restored to exactly one cubic decimeter. A capital L was added as an alternative symbol in 1979 because a lowercase l is easy to mistake for the digit 1, and NIST says L is the symbol to use in the United States. A liter of water is close to a kilogram, which is why a one-liter bottle feels like a kilo in the hand.

The liter is the reference unit for volume on this site.

Sources: Wikipedia: Litre; NIST Guide to the SI, Chapter 5: units outside the SI

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