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Vegetable shortening grams to cups

One US cup of vegetable shortening weighs 205 g, a tablespoon 12.8 g and a teaspoon 4.27 g. So 100 g of vegetable shortening is scant ½ cup (0.488 cups).

100 grams of vegetable shortening = 0.488 cups

Measure it: scant ½ cup

Ingredient

Metric cup (250 ml)

Vegetable shortening grams to cups chart

Grams	US cups	How to measure	Tablespoons
25 g	0.122	scant 2 tbsp	1.95
50 g	0.244	scant ¼ cup	3.9
75 g	0.366	⅓ cup + 1 ½ tsp	5.85
100 g	0.488	scant ½ cup	7.8
125 g	0.61	scant ½ cup + 2 tbsp	9.76
150 g	0.732	⅔ cup + 1 tbsp	11.7
200 g	0.976	scant 1 cup	15.6
250 g	1.22	scant 1 ¼ cups	19.5
300 g	1.46	1 ⅓ cups + 2 tbsp	23.4
400 g	1.95	1 ¾ cups + 3 tbsp	31.2
500 g	2.44	2 ¼ cups + 3 tbsp	39
1000 g	4.88	4 ¾ cups + 2 tbsp	78

Cups of vegetable shortening to grams

Cups	Grams	Ounces
⅛ cup	25.6 g	0.904 oz
¼ cup	51.3 g	1.81 oz
⅓ cup	68.3 g	2.41 oz
½ cup	103 g	3.62 oz
⅔ cup	137 g	4.82 oz
¾ cup	154 g	5.42 oz
1 cup	205 g	7.23 oz
1½ cups	308 g	10.8 oz
2 cups	410 g	14.5 oz
3 cups	615 g	21.7 oz
4 cups	820 g	28.9 oz

Where 205 g comes from

USDA FoodData Central: 1 cup of “Shortening, household, soybean (partially hydrogenated)-cottonseed (partially hydrogenated)” = 205 g. FDC 171011

King Arthur Baking ingredient weight chart (“Vegetable shortening”): 184 g per cup. Chart

This page uses 205 g (USDA). The two sources differ by 21 g (10.2%): that gap is about how firmly the cup is filled, not an error in either.

Shortening (such as Crisco) is packed into the cup like butter. A cup is 205 g in USDA's data; King Arthur's ¼ cup at 46 g gives 184 g. It weighs less than butter because it contains no water.

How to measure vegetable shortening by the cup

Press it firmly into a dry measuring cup with the back of a spoon, then level the top. It should hold the cup's shape when turned out.

In the UK and Australia: white vegetable fat. Metric cups there hold 250 ml, so a metric cup of vegetable shortening weighs about 217 g.

Questions

How many cups is 100 g of vegetable shortening?

scant ½ cup (0.488 cups), measured the packed way.

How many grams is 1 cup of vegetable shortening?

205 g according to USDA FoodData Central; King Arthur's chart says 184 g.

How many grams in a tablespoon of vegetable shortening?

About 12.8 g; a teaspoon is 4.27 g.

How many cups is 500 g of vegetable shortening?

2 ¼ cups + 3 tbsp (2.44 cups).