The one conversion every baker looks up mid-recipe. Enter any amount, see it in every unit at once.
Type the amount, choose the unit it is in, and read the conversion in every other unit at once. The list covers sticks, cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, grams, kilograms, ounces and pounds, because those are the eight ways a recipe or a scale will ask for butter.
The page assumes the US stick, which is half a cup, eight tablespoons, and a quarter of a pound. If your recipe is British or European and calls for butter by weight, use the gram figure and ignore the stick count — a "stick" is not a unit in those kitchens.
A recipe calls for 1.5 sticks and your scale reads in grams.
| Unit | 1.5 sticks |
|---|---|
| Grams | 170 g |
| Cups | 3/4 cup |
| Tablespoons | 12 tbsp |
| Teaspoons | 36 tsp |
| Ounces | 6 oz |
One stick is 113.4 grams, so one and a half is 170 grams — close enough to 170 g on any kitchen scale. The half-stick remainder is 56.7 g, which is the number worth remembering: it is what you need for a single stick's worth of crumb topping, or for halving a recipe that calls for three sticks.
Volume measures of butter are approximations, weight measures are not. A cup of butter is 226.8 grams by definition in the US stick system, so the arithmetic here is exact. The uncertainty comes from how the butter was packed: a cup measured by pressing soft butter into a cup can hold noticeably more than a cup cut from a firm block. That is why pastry recipes increasingly give weights, and why a scale is worth more than a measuring cup for baking.
Butter is about 80% fat and roughly 16 to 17% water in the US, which is why substituting oil at a one-to-one ratio changes a bake. If you are swapping, the usual conversion is three-quarters of the butter weight in oil, and even then the texture will differ. This page converts butter to butter; it does not pretend to convert it to something else.
Room temperature matters for creaming but not for the number. If a recipe says "1 stick, softened", the conversion is the same; only the mixing behaviour changes.
Eight. That is also half a cup, a quarter of a pound, and 113.4 grams.
Because the US stick is defined as a quarter of a pound, and a pound is 453.6 grams. Metric butter is sold in 250-gram blocks, which is why European recipes never mention sticks.
The weights are close enough for most baking, but margarine has more water and behaves differently in pastry. Use it for measuring, not as a guarantee of the same result.
Butter is usually measured by weight, not volume. If a recipe does use millilitres, treat one millilitre as roughly 0.96 grams.
Yes. The salt content changes the taste and slightly the water balance, not the weight on the label.
The stick is a U.S. retail convention: a quarter pound, commonly taken as 113 grams.
Last updated: November 2, 2026. Reviewed by David Liu.