Cups to tablespoons
1 US cup = 16 US tablespoons. 1/4 US cup = 4 US tablespoons.
0.25 US cups
4 US tablespoons
Volume stays the same whichever ingredient fills the cup.
Cup scale: 1 US cup
Turning a weight into cups? Choose the ingredient in the grams-to-cups tool.
Cups to tablespoons chart
| US cups | US tablespoons |
|---|---|
| 1/8 | 2 |
| 1/4 | 4 |
| 1/3 | 5 1/3 (5.33) |
| 1/2 | 8 |
| 2/3 | 10 2/3 (10.67) |
| 3/4 | 12 |
| 1 | 16 |
| 1 1/2 | 24 |
| 2 | 32 |
Good to know
A third of a cup is 5 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon, the one that catches people out when a 1/3 cup measure is missing.
The figures follow the US definitions in NIST Handbook 44: 3 teaspoons to a tablespoon, 16 tablespoons to a cup, 2 cups to a pint, 4 quarts to a gallon and 28.349523125 grams to an ounce by weight.
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