Cooking

Tablespoons to cups

Convert US tablespoons to US cups. 16 tablespoons make one US cup.

tbsp
cups

cups = tbsp × 0.0625

Quick reference

Common amounttbspcups
1 tbsp 1 tbsp 0.0625 cups
2 tbsp 2 tbsp 0.125 cups
4 tbsp (1/4 cup) 4 tbsp 0.25 cups
8 tbsp (1/2 cup) 8 tbsp 0.5 cups
12 tbsp (3/4 cup) 12 tbsp 0.75 cups
16 tbsp (1 cup) 16 tbsp 1 cups

About this conversion

A US tablespoon is 14.787 ml (1/16 of a US customary cup). Australian tablespoons are 20 ml — if your recipe is Australian, divide by 12.5 instead.