Milliliters to Dashes (mL to dash)

1 milliliter equals 1.62307309 dashes (rounded).

1 milliliter = 1.62307309 dashes

How to convert milliliters to dashes

To convert milliliters to dashes, multiply the number of milliliters by 1.62307309. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply dashes by 0.6161151992 (rounded).

dashes = milliliters × 1.62307309

Example: 10 milliliters = 16.2307309 dashes.

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

Milliliter (mL)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One thousandth of a liter, or exactly 1 cubic centimeter. Used for medicine, cooking and small containers.

Milliliters inherit everything from the liter, since the prefix simply means one thousandth. Because the liter is a cubic decimeter, a milliliter works out to exactly one cubic centimeter, a coincidence the metric system built in on purpose so that volume, length and mass interlock. One milliliter of water has a mass of about one gram, so a dosing syringe, a kitchen scale and a measuring jug can all be checked against one another.

Today milliliters dominate wherever small amounts must be measured precisely: medicine, flavorings, perfume, shampoo and the fine print on drink labels. Spelling is a mild regional split, with uppercase mL preferred in the United States, Canada and Australia and lowercase ml common in the UK and Europe. For scale, a US teaspoon is just under 5 mL, a US tablespoon is about 14.8 mL, and the US nutrition-label cup is exactly 240 mL, so one such cup is 240 of these tiny units.

1 milliliter = 0.001 liters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Litre; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume; 21 CFR 101.9: nutrition labeling household measures

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)

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