Butter conversion chart
In the United States butter is sold in sticks. One stick is a quarter of a pound: 4 ounces, 113 g, 8 tablespoons or half a cup. Everything else follows from that.
| Sticks | Cups | Tablespoons | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ¼ | ⅛ | 2 | 28 g | 1 oz |
| ½ | ¼ | 4 | 57 g | 2 oz |
| 1 | ½ | 8 | 113 g | 4 oz |
| 1 ½ | ¾ | 12 | 170 g | 6 oz |
| 2 | 1 | 16 | 227 g | 8 oz |
| 3 | 1 ½ | 24 | 340 g | 12 oz |
| 4 | 2 | 32 | 454 g | 16 oz |
How many sticks of butter is a third or three quarters of a cup?
Recipes written in cups rarely land on a whole stick. The wrapper is marked in tablespoons, so the third column is the one to cut by.
| Cups | Sticks | Tablespoons | Grams |
|---|---|---|---|
| ¼ cup | ½ | 4 tbsp | 57 g |
| ⅓ cup | ⅔ | 5 tbsp + 1 tsp | 76 g |
| ½ cup | 1 | 8 tbsp | 113 g |
| ⅔ cup | 1 ⅓ | 10 tbsp + 2 tsp | 151 g |
| ¾ cup | 1 ½ | 12 tbsp | 170 g |
| 1 cup | 2 | 16 tbsp | 227 g |
| 1 ½ cups | 3 | 24 tbsp | 340 g |
Grams of butter in cups and tablespoons
For a recipe written in grams, type the weight in the converter or read it here. Amounts that are not a clean measure are rounded to the nearest spoon.
| Grams | Cups and spoons | Tablespoons |
|---|---|---|
| 25 g | 1 tbsp + 2 ¼ tsp | 1 ¾ |
| 50 g | 3 tbsp + 1 ½ tsp | 3 ½ |
| 75 g | ⅓ cup | 5 ⅓ |
| 100 g | ¼ cup + 3 tbsp | 7 |
| 125 g | ½ cup + 2 tsp | 8 ¾ |
| 150 g | ⅔ cup | 10 ½ |
| 200 g | ¾ cup + 2 tbsp | 14 |
| 250 g | 1 cup + 2 tbsp | 17 ½ |
| 500 g | 2 ¼ cups | 35 |
A stick of butter outside the United States
The stick is an American pack size. Elsewhere butter is sold by weight, most often in 250 g blocks, which is a little more than two sticks. If a recipe asks for one stick, weigh out 113 g. If it asks for a cup, weigh out 227 g.
Where the numbers come from
A US stick is 4 ounces by pack size, which is 113.4 g. King Arthur Baking’s ingredient weight chart lists butter the same way: 8 tablespoons, half a cup, 4 ounces, 113 g.
