How many grams is 1/2 tablespoon?
How many grams is 1/2 tablespoon?
Answer
A tablespoon measures volume, and every ingredient packs a different weight into it, so 1/2 tablespoon has no single weight. The table gives all 23 ingredients, with the packed, sifted and cooked states on rows of their own, each from the USDA FoodData Central weight of one US cup ÷ 16 — one US tablespoon (14.8 ml) is 1/16 of a US cup — or of one US teaspoon × 3 for baking powder, baking soda, active dry yeast and ground cinnamon; water is counted from its volume.
| Ingredient | 1/2 tablespoon in grams | One US tablespoon weighs |
|---|---|---|
| All-purpose flour | 3.91 grams | 7.81 grams |
| Granulated sugar | 6.25 grams | 12.5 grams |
| Brown sugar, packed | 6.88 grams | 13.8 grams |
| Brown sugar, unpacked | 4.53 grams | 9.06 grams |
| Powdered sugar, unsifted | 3.75 grams | 7.5 grams |
| Powdered sugar, sifted | 3.13 grams | 6.25 grams |
| Butter | 7.09 grams | 14.2 grams |
| Water | 7.39 grams | 14.8 grams |
| Whole milk | 7.63 grams | 15.3 grams |
| White rice, uncooked | 5.78 grams | 11.6 grams |
| White rice, cooked | 4.94 grams | 9.88 grams |
| Rolled oats | 2.53 grams | 5.06 grams |
| Honey | 10.6 grams | 21.2 grams |
| Table salt | 9.13 grams | 18.3 grams |
| Cocoa powder | 2.69 grams | 5.38 grams |
| Plain yogurt | 7.66 grams | 15.3 grams |
| Olive oil | 6.75 grams | 13.5 grams |
| Vegetable oil | 6.81 grams | 13.6 grams |
| Heavy cream | 7.44 grams | 14.9 grams |
| Sour cream | 7.19 grams | 14.4 grams |
| Peanut butter | 8.06 grams | 16.1 grams |
| Cornstarch | 4 grams | 8 grams |
| Baking powder | 6.9 grams | 13.8 grams |
| Baking soda | 6.9 grams | 13.8 grams |
| Active dry yeast | 6 grams | 12 grams |
| Ground cinnamon | 3.9 grams | 7.8 grams |
How 1/2 tablespoon of butter was converted to grams
One US tablespoon of butter weighs 14.2 grams (fourteen point two), so multiply 1/2 by 14.1875.
1/2 × 14.1875 g
≈7.09 grams
(seven point zero nine grams)
The weight of the tablespoon comes from USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy entry 173430 “Butter, without salt”, portion “1 cup” = 227 grams, and 1 US cup = 16 US tablespoons. Scooped ingredients vary with how they are filled — spooned in lightly, a tablespoon weighs less; packed down, more — so for baking a kitchen scale is the exact tool and this figure the standard reference.
The other way round: how many tablespoons a weight fills
This page starts from tablespoons and answers in grams. The opposite question — how many tablespoons a weight from a recipe fills — is what the grams to tablespoons converter is for. Both read the same USDA weights, so their numbers agree: 100 grams of butter is 7.05 tablespoons there.
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See Also
- Grams to Tablespoons - How many US tablespoons a weight of butter, sugar, flour, salt or another ingredient fills — by USDA weights
- Tablespoons to Cups - Convert Tablespoons to Cups
- Cups to Tablespoons - Convert Cups to Tablespoons
- Teaspoons to Grams - How many grams a US teaspoon of sugar, salt, baking powder, yeast or another ingredient weighs — by USDA data
- Cups to Grams - How many grams a US cup of flour, sugar, butter, rice or another ingredient weighs — by USDA data
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