Butter Converter
Convert butter between US sticks, tablespoons, cups, grams, and ounces.
One US stick of butter equals 113.4 g, which is the same as 8 tablespoons, ½ cup, or 4 ounces. This converter uses grams as the common reference: it turns your amount into grams first, then divides into every other unit, so a stick, a cup, and 226.8 g always stay in exact agreement.
How butter measurements relate
American recipes measure butter in sticks, and each stick is wrapped with a tablespoon scale printed on the paper. One stick weighs 113.4 g and holds 8 tablespoons, which is exactly ½ cup or 4 ounces. Because two sticks make a cup, a full cup of butter is 226.8 g. Working through grams keeps every unit consistent: one tablespoon is 14.175 g, and one ounce is 28.35 g.
Grams per unit — stick 113.4 · tbsp 14.175 · cup 226.8 · oz 28.35 · gram 1
Worked example: 2 sticks into cups and grams
Convert the amount to grams, then divide into whichever unit the recipe wants.
- 1 Note what one stick is. 1 US stick = 113.4 g = 8 tablespoons = ½ cup = 4 ounces. This is the anchor for every other unit.
- 2 Turn your amount into grams. Multiply by the grams-per-unit value. For 2 sticks: 2 × 113.4 = 226.8 g.
- 3 Divide grams into the unit you need. Cups = grams ÷ 226.8, so 226.8 ÷ 226.8 = 1 cup. Tablespoons = grams ÷ 14.175 = 16 tbsp.
- 4 Round sensibly for the kitchen. Butter tolerates small rounding, so 113.4 g is fine to read as roughly 113 g on a scale.
Butter conversion table
US butter, with grams as the common reference (1 stick = 113.4 g).
| Sticks | Tablespoons | Cups | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ¼ stick | 2 tbsp | ⅛ cup | 28.35 g | 1 oz |
| ½ stick | 4 tbsp | ¼ cup | 56.7 g | 2 oz |
| 1 stick | 8 tbsp | ½ cup | 113.4 g | 4 oz |
| 2 sticks | 16 tbsp | 1 cup | 226.8 g | 8 oz |
| 4 sticks | 32 tbsp | 2 cups | 453.6 g | 16 oz |
US sticks vs European blocks
The stick is a North American convention: butter there is sold in ¼-pound (113.4 g) sticks, four to a pound. Most of Europe never adopted it — butter is sold in blocks, very often 250 g, and recipes simply call for a weight in grams. That means there is no clean “stick” in a European pack: a 250 g block works out to about 2.2 sticks, not a round number. This tool follows the US definition of a stick throughout, so if you are baking from a European recipe, weigh the butter in grams and let the converter show the equivalent sticks, cups, and tablespoons.