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Butter: sticks, tablespoons, cups and grams

One US stick of butter is 8 tablespoons, ½ cup, 4 ounces or 113 grams. The wrapper is marked in tablespoons, so you can cut what you need.

Butter sticks
Sticks	Tablespoons	Cups	Grams	Ounces
¼ stick	2	⅛	28 g	1 oz
½ stick	4	¼	57 g	2 oz
1 stick	8	½	113 g	4 oz
1 ½ sticks	12	¾	170 g	6 oz
2 sticks	16	1	227 g	8 oz
3 sticks	24	1 ½	340 g	12 oz
4 sticks	32	2	454 g	16 oz

Tablespoons of butter
Tablespoons	Grams	Sticks
1	14.2 g	⅛
2	28.3 g	¼
3	42.5 g	⅜
4	56.7 g	½
5	70.9 g	⅝
6	85 g	¾
10	142 g	1 ¼
12	170 g	1 ½

Measuring butter

From a stick: cut at the wrapper's tablespoon lines.
From a tub or block: press softened butter into a measuring cup with no air pockets, or weigh it.
European butter often comes in 250 g blocks, about 2 ¼ sticks.
Melted butter measures the same by weight; by volume it settles a little, so measure it solid when you can.

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