How many grams is 12 tablespoons?
How many grams is 12 tablespoons?
Answer
A tablespoon measures volume, and every ingredient packs a different weight into it, so 12 tablespoons 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 | 12 tablespoons in grams | One US tablespoon weighs |
|---|---|---|
| All-purpose flour | 93.8 grams | 7.81 grams |
| Granulated sugar | 150 grams | 12.5 grams |
| Brown sugar, packed | 165 grams | 13.8 grams |
| Brown sugar, unpacked | 108.8 grams | 9.06 grams |
| Powdered sugar, unsifted | 90 grams | 7.5 grams |
| Powdered sugar, sifted | 75 grams | 6.25 grams |
| Butter | 170.3 grams | 14.2 grams |
| Water | 177.4 grams | 14.8 grams |
| Whole milk | 183 grams | 15.3 grams |
| White rice, uncooked | 138.8 grams | 11.6 grams |
| White rice, cooked | 118.5 grams | 9.88 grams |
| Rolled oats | 60.8 grams | 5.06 grams |
| Honey | 254.3 grams | 21.2 grams |
| Table salt | 219 grams | 18.3 grams |
| Cocoa powder | 64.5 grams | 5.38 grams |
| Plain yogurt | 183.8 grams | 15.3 grams |
| Olive oil | 162 grams | 13.5 grams |
| Vegetable oil | 163.5 grams | 13.6 grams |
| Heavy cream | 178.5 grams | 14.9 grams |
| Sour cream | 172.5 grams | 14.4 grams |
| Peanut butter | 193.5 grams | 16.1 grams |
| Cornstarch | 96 grams | 8 grams |
| Baking powder | 165.6 grams | 13.8 grams |
| Baking soda | 165.6 grams | 13.8 grams |
| Active dry yeast | 144 grams | 12 grams |
| Ground cinnamon | 93.6 grams | 7.8 grams |
How 12 tablespoons of butter was converted to grams
One US tablespoon of butter weighs 14.2 grams (fourteen point two), so multiply 12 by 14.1875.
12 × 14.1875 g
≈170.3 grams
(one hundred seventy point three 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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