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Cooking Converter

Cooking measurements made simple — plus density-aware conversion for flour, sugar, butter, water, and more.

Amount

From

1 cup = 236.588 millilitre

What you entered

Amount: 1 Cup

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Convert the source unit to a common base (millilitres)
1 × 236.588= 236.588 mL
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Convert from millilitres to the target unit
236.588 ÷ 1= 236.588

Result

Millilitre: 236.588

1 cup equals 236.588 millilitre.

Cooking volume conversions

US customary measures. A tablespoon is 3 teaspoons and a cup is 16 tablespoons.

From	To	Result
1 teaspoon	millilitres	4.9289
1 tablespoon	teaspoons	3.0000
1 cup	tablespoons	16.0000
1 cup	millilitres	236.5882
250 millilitres	cups	1.0567

The internal ratios are clean - 3 teaspoons to a tablespoon, 16 tablespoons to a cup - which is what makes scaling within the system easy. Crossing into metric is where it gets untidy, as the 236.5882 mL cup shows, and the metric cup used in Australia and much of Europe is a round 250 mL instead, a 6% difference that matters in baking. The Australian tablespoon is also 20 mL rather than 15, so it is 4 teaspoons rather than 3. For baking, weight is more reliable than any volume measure, since a cup of flour varies by up to 20% depending on how it was filled.

Why weight beats volume

1 cup of flour scooped firmly weighs 150 g; spooned lightly, 120 g. That 25% swing ruins baking. Pro tip: weigh dry ingredients whenever a recipe gives both options.

Frequently asked questions

My recipe says 200g of butter — how many tablespoons is that?

Butter is about 14.2 g per tablespoon (US). So 200 g ÷ 14.2 ≈ 14 tablespoons, or roughly 7/8 cup. This converter accounts for butter's specific density rather than assuming water's density like generic converters do.

How many grams of flour are in 1 US cup?

About 120-130 g for all-purpose flour (sifted and spooned). But 'a cup of flour' can vary by 25% depending on how you scoop it — from 120 g (spooned and leveled) to 150 g (scooped and packed). This is exactly why bakers prefer grams.

Is a UK tablespoon the same as a US tablespoon?

No — a UK tablespoon is 15 ml while a US tablespoon is 14.79 ml. Close enough for cooking, but the difference compounds over multiple tablespoons. Similarly, a UK cup (284 ml) differs from a US cup (237 ml) by about 20%. Always check which system your recipe uses.

How is this different from the universal unit converter?

The universal converter handles standard volume units (ml, cups, liters). This cooking converter adds ingredient-specific density conversions — it knows that a cup of sugar weighs differently than a cup of flour. Use this when converting between weight and volume for specific ingredients.