Sticks, cups, tablespoons, grams and ounces — converted instantly.
US sticks
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Cups
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Tablespoons
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Grams
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Ounces
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One US stick of butter = ½ cup = 8 tablespoons = 113 g = 4 oz. A full cup is
2 sticks (227 g). US butter wrappers are marked in tablespoons, which makes them handy
to cut — 1 tablespoon ≈ 14 g.
Butter conversion chart
Sticks
Cups
Tbsp
Grams
Ounces
½
¼
4
56.7 g
2 oz
1
½
8
113 g
4 oz
2
1
16
227 g
8 oz
4
2
32
454 g
16 oz
How much is a stick of butter?
In the US, butter is sold in sticks weighing 113 grams (¼ lb / 4 oz) each, equal to
½ cup or 8 tablespoons. Most recipes outside the US give butter by weight in grams, which
is why a converter helps: 200 g of butter, for instance, is about 1¾ sticks.