US recipes call for butter in sticks, others in cups, tablespoons, grams, or ounces. This chart lines them all up so you never have to guess how much a stick is.
| Amount | Tablespoons | Cups | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 tablespoon | 1 | — | 14 | 0.5 |
| 1/2 stick | 4 | 1/4 | 57 | 2 |
| 1 stick | 8 | 1/2 | 113 | 4 |
| 2 sticks | 16 | 1 | 227 | 8 |
| 4 sticks (1 lb) | 32 | 2 | 454 | 16 |
One US stick of butter is 1/2 cup, 8 tablespoons, 113 grams, or 4 ounces. Most wrappers print tablespoon marks to make cutting easy.
FAQ
Why does butter conversion depend on whether it’s melted or solid? Melted butter loses air and settles more densely than solid butter cut into sticks or measured by volume, so a weight-based conversion is more reliable across states than assuming a solid measurement equals the same melted volume. For recipes that specify melted butter by volume, measure it after melting rather than melting a solid volume measurement, since the two can differ slightly.
Convert any amount with the Butter Converter in the cooking calculators.