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How many cups in a quart?
There are 4 cups in a US quart. A quart is 2 pints or 32 fluid ounces, about 946 ml. Four quarts make a gallon, so a gallon is 16 cups.
1 quart = 4 cups
Measure it: 4 cups
Quarts to cups chart
| Quarts | Cups | How to measure |
|---|---|---|
| ¼ quarts of all-purpose flour | 1 | 1 cup |
| ½ quarts of all-purpose flour | 2 | 2 cups |
| 1 quart of all-purpose flour | 4 | 4 cups |
| 1½ quarts of all-purpose flour | 6 | 6 cups |
| 2 quarts of all-purpose flour | 8 | 8 cups |
| 3 quarts of all-purpose flour | 12 | 12 cups |
| 4 quarts of all-purpose flour | 16 | 16 cups |
The names come from fractions of a gallon: a quart is a quarter gallon, a pint is half a quart, and a cup is half a pint.
A UK (imperial) quart is bigger: 1.14 liters, or about 4.8 US cups. If a British recipe asks for a quart of stock, use about 4¾ cups.
A liter is slightly more than a US quart: 1 liter is 4.23 cups. A 1-quart jug holds 946 ml.
Questions
How many cups in half a quart?
2 cups, which is 1 pint.
How many cups in 2 quarts?
8 cups.
How many cups in a gallon?
16 cups (4 quarts).