Cups & Temps

Cooking measurement converter

Cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, fluid ounces, pints, quarts, gallons, milliliters, grams and pounds, with exact US factors from NIST. Add an ingredient to go between cups and grams.

Kitchen unit converter

Type an amount (fractions like 1 1/2 work), pick the units, and add an ingredient to convert between cups and grams.

16tablespoons

1 cup = 16 tablespoons

    US measurement equivalents chart

    Print it, tape it inside a cabinet. 3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon, 16 tablespoons = 1 cup, 2 cups = 1 pint, 2 pints = 1 quart, 4 quarts = 1 gallon.

    US kitchen volume equivalents
    MeasureTablespoonsTeaspoonsFluid ouncesMilliliters
    1 teaspoon1/310.16674.929
    1 tablespoon131/214.79
    1/8 cup26129.57
    1/4 cup412259.15
    1/3 cup5 1/3162 2/378.86
    1/2 cup8244118.3
    2/3 cup10 2/3325 1/3157.7
    3/4 cup12366177.4
    1 cup16488236.6
    1 pint329616473.2
    1 quart6419232946.4
    1 gallon2567681283,785

    US customary units, exact NIST factors. Milliliters rounded to 4 significant figures; nutrition labels round a cup to 240 mL.

    Most asked conversions

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    Dry vs liquid, US vs metric

    A US cup is 236.6 mL (nutrition labels round it to 240 mL). Liquid measures are read at eye level; dry cups are filled and leveled. For flour, sugar and other dry goods, weight is far more reliable than volume, so see cups to grams by ingredient.

    Oven temperatures are on the Fahrenheit to Celsius converter.