Below are some common meanings for ingredients, materials and utensils for recipes which have been converted from American to Australian.
| American | Australian |
| 13" x 9" x 2" pan | Lamington tin |
| All purpose flour | Plain flour |
| Baking Chocolate | Cooking Chocolate |
| Baking pan | Cake tin |
| Baking soda | Bi-carbonate of Soda |
| Bell pepper | Capsicum |
| Biscuit | Scone |
| Broil | Grill |
| Broiler (inside oven) | Griller (separate from oven) |
| Bullion cubes | Stock cubes |
| Cantaloupe | Rock melon |
| Catsup | Tomato sauce |
| Chilli pepper | Chilli |
| Confectioners’ sugar | Icing sugar |
| Cocoa Powder | Cocoa |
| Cookie sheet | Baking tray or Oven slide |
| Cookie | Biscuit (sweet) |
| Confectioners sugar | Icing sugar |
| Corn starch | Cornflour |
| Corn Syrup | Golden syrup |
| Cracker | Biscuit (savoury) |
| Cream, heavy | Whipping cream |
| Cream, half and half | Single cream |
| Dish towel | Tea towel |
| Extract | Essence |
| Flank steak | Skirt steak |
| Garbanzos | Chickpeas |
| Golden raisins | Sultanas |
| Granulated sugar (finer) | Caster sugar |
| Green onion | Shallot |
| Ground beef | Minced beef |
| Ground meat | Minced meat |
| Jello | Jelly |
| Jelly | Jam, conserve |
| Jelly roll | Swiss roll |
| Jelly roll pan | Swiss roll tin |
| Jumbo shrimp | King prawn |
| Ketchup | Tomato sauce |
| Molasses | Treacle |
| Papaya | Paw Paw |
| Rice Crispies | Rice bubbles |
| Round beets | Beetroot |
| Scallion | Spring onion |
| Self rising flour | Self raising flour |
| Shredded coconut | Desiccated coconut |
| Shrimp | Prawn |
| Sprinkles (closest equivalent) | Hundreds and thousands |
| Swiss chard | Silver beet |
| Tube pan | Ring tin |
| Vanilla extract | Vanilla essence |
| Vegetable shortening | Copha |
| Wax paper | Greaseproof paper |
| Whole wheat flour | Wholemeal flour |
| Wire rack | Cake cooler |