Cooking Measurement Converter
Halving a recipe or working from a metric cookbook? Convert between cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, fluid ounces, milliliters and liters. Enter a value and the units, and see it in every measure at once.
Your numbers
Result
| Unit | Value |
|---|---|
| teaspoons | 48 |
| tablespoons | 16 |
| fluid ounces | 8 |
| cups (US) | 1 |
| pints (US) | 0.5 |
| quarts (US) | 0.25 |
| gallons (US) | 0.06 |
| milliliters | 236.59 |
| liters | 0.24 |
The measures you meet most
The handy ones to remember: 3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon, 16 tablespoons = 1 cup, and 1 US cup = 236.6 ml. So a cup is 8 fluid ounces, a US pint is 2 cups, and a quart is 4 cups. This tool does the exact math and shows the value in every unit.
US cups are not metric cups
Watch out: a US cup is 236.6 ml, but a metric cup is 250 ml and an old UK/imperial cup was 284 ml. This converter uses US customary measures. For a metric-cup recipe, the difference is about 5% — small for most cooking, but it can matter in baking.
Volume, not weight
This converts volume to volume. It cannot turn cups into grams, because that depends on the ingredient: a cup of flour weighs about 120 g, a cup of sugar about 200 g, and a cup of water 236 g. For weight, use an ingredient-specific chart or a kitchen scale.
Frequently asked questions
Sources
- US customary and metric volume measures
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