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Butter sticks to cups and grams
One US stick of butter is ½ cup, 8 tablespoons, 4 oz or 113 g. Two sticks make 1 cup (227 g); four sticks make a pound.
1 cup = 16 tablespoons
Measure it: 1 cup
Butter sticks, cups, tablespoons and grams
| Sticks | Cups | Tablespoons | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ½ stick | ¼ cup | 4 | 56.7 g | 2 oz |
| 1 stick | ½ cup | 8 | 113 g | 4 oz |
| 1½ sticks | ¾ cup | 12 | 170 g | 6 oz |
| 2 sticks | 1 cup | 16 | 227 g | 8 oz |
| 3 sticks | 1½ cups | 24 | 340 g | 12 oz |
| 4 sticks | 2 cups | 32 | 454 g | 16 oz |
The wrapper on US sticks is marked in tablespoons, so you can cut 2 or 3 tablespoons without measuring.
Outside the US, butter usually comes in 250 g blocks: that is about 2.2 sticks, or 1 cup plus 1½ tablespoons.
Western US "stubby" sticks are shorter and fatter but weigh the same 4 oz.
Questions
How many grams in a stick of butter?
113 grams.
How many sticks of butter in a cup?
2 sticks.
How many tablespoons in a stick of butter?
8 tablespoons.