Cups to Tablespoons Converter

Our cups to tablespoons calculator helps you to convert ingredients between US cups, other cup sizes, over to the various sizes of tablespoons that can be found throughout the world. It can be really confusing at first when faced with a recipe that only has cups for ingredient weights, or tablespoons. Our calculator is designed to ease this worry and gives you a fast and simple way to measure out your ingredients with accuracy.

Is it simple to covert cups to tablespoons?

Let’s start by keeping things simple. If you wish to convert one US cup to US tablespoons, you’ll find that there are 16 tablespoons in that one cup.

And how about ½ cup?

Sometimes, all you need is half a cup of flour, sugar, or any other type of ingredient you are baking with. For half a cup, this is pretty straightforward. There are 8 US tablespoons in one US cup.

My recipe asks for a 1/3 of a cup?

If you’re reading 1/3 of a cup in your recipe, then our conversion calculator tells you that a third comes out as 5 tablespoons and 1 teaspoon. To put this into context, one teaspoon equals 1/3 of a teaspoon.

A guide to converting cups to tablespoons

In modern baking and cooking you’ll find that recipe books only use cup sizes in the US and Canada. The cup was used as a standard measure in British recipes, but this was abandoned as a standard in the 1960s. You might still find some recipes in modern cookbooks from other parts of the world that use a cup of flour, a cup of sugar, or another ingredient, but mostly it will be in tablespoons, grams, and other measurements than cups. 

Is there a difference between the size of cups and tablespoons in different countries?

There are different variations of cup sizes and tablespoon sizes in different countries. It can be confusing to make sure you’re converting the right thing. The last thing you want to do is ruin the recipe you’re working on and waste time by getting the wrong measurements. There is a slight variation on the sizes of cups throughout the world. UK cups are a standard 250ml, whilst US cups come in at 240ml. This makes all the difference when you are trying to work out half measures, or a 1/3 of a cup. Saying all of this, as much as it is important to be as accurate as possible, a slight difference won’t affect the finished dish too much.

Our cups to tablespoons calculator

It is straightforward to use our cups to tablespoons calculator. You’ve got the option to convert US cups and other cup measurements into tablespoons from the US and UK. Another tab allows you to convert tablespoons to teaspoons. By using our simple, efficient calculator below, you can see how easy it is to convert cups into tablespoons and tablespoons into teaspoons, no matter where in the world your recipe has come from. Please feel free to bookmark our page and come back to us time and time again whenever you are baking and require a quick and simple solution to your conversion woes. 

Finding recipes from all over the world in the modern age means you’re faced with different types of measurements that you might not be used to, and that is where our great cups to tablespoons conversion calculator is very handy to have next to you on a baking or cooking day!