Tablespoons to cups
1 US tablespoon = 1/16 US cup. 4 US tablespoons = 1/4 US cup.
4 US tablespoons
1/4 US cup
0.25 US cups
Volume stays the same whichever ingredient fills the cup.
Cup scale: 1 US cup
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Tablespoons to cups chart
| US tablespoons | US cups |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1/16 (0.06) |
| 2 | 1/8 (0.13) |
| 3 | 3/16 (0.19) |
| 4 | 1/4 (0.25) |
| 5 | 5/16 (0.31) |
| 6 | 3/8 (0.38) |
| 8 | 1/2 (0.5) |
| 10 | 5/8 (0.63) |
| 12 | 3/4 (0.75) |
| 16 | 1 |
Good to know
Sixteen level tablespoons fill one US cup. A soup spoon or a coffee scoop is not a measuring tablespoon.
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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