Milk: cups to grams
Whole milk weighs 244 g per US cup, about 3 % more than water, and skim milk is much the same. Cream is slightly lighter (heavy cream 238 g), buttermilk slightly heavier (245 g). Treating milk as water in a conversion is a 3 % error, which no recipe will notice.
1 cup milk = 244 g · 1 tbsp = 15.3 g · 100 g = 0.41 cups
Based on 244 g per US cup of milk, spooned and levelled. Real-world cups vary by about ±10 % for powders.
How to measure milk
Liquid measuring cup at eye level, or the scale: 1 cup = 244 g, 1 tablespoon = 15 g, 250 mL metric cup = 258 g.
Weight is the only measure that does not depend on the container or on how the ingredient was filled. The figure of 244 g per US cup comes from USDA FoodData Central; other charts differ by a few percent, which is within the spread between two cooks filling the same cup.
Cups of milk to grams
| Cups | Volume | Weight | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⅛ cup | 30 mL | 31 g | 1.1 oz |
| ¼ cup | 59 mL | 61 g | 2.2 oz |
| ⅓ cup | 79 mL | 81 g | 2.9 oz |
| ½ cup | 118 mL | 122 g | 4.3 oz |
| ⅔ cup | 158 mL | 163 g | 5.7 oz |
| ¾ cup | 177 mL | 183 g | 6.5 oz |
| 1 cup | 237 mL | 244 g | 8.6 oz |
| 1½ cups | 355 mL | 366 g | 12.9 oz |
| 2 cups | 473 mL | 488 g | 17.2 oz |
| 3 cups | 710 mL | 732 g | 25.8 oz |
| 4 cups | 946 mL | 976 g | 34.4 oz |
Spoons and metric measures
| Measure | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1 teaspoon | 5.1 g |
| 1 tablespoon | 15.3 g |
| 2 tablespoons | 30.5 g |
| 4 tablespoons (¼ cup) | 61 g |
| Metric cup, 250 mL | 258 g |
| 100 mL | 103 g |
Grams of milk to cups
| Weight | US cups | Tablespoons | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 g | 0.1 cups | 1.6 tbsp | 0.88 oz |
| 50 g | 0.2 cups | 3.3 tbsp | 1.76 oz |
| 75 g | 0.31 cups | 4.9 tbsp | 2.65 oz |
| 100 g | 0.41 cups | 6.6 tbsp | 3.53 oz |
| 125 g | 0.51 cups | 8.2 tbsp | 4.41 oz |
| 150 g | 0.61 cups | 9.8 tbsp | 5.29 oz |
| 200 g | 0.82 cups | 13.1 tbsp | 7.05 oz |
| 250 g | 1.02 cups | 16.4 tbsp | 8.82 oz |
| 300 g | 1.23 cups | 19.7 tbsp | 10.58 oz |
| 400 g | 1.64 cups | 26.2 tbsp | 14.11 oz |
| 500 g | 2.05 cups | 32.8 tbsp | 17.64 oz |
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Frequently asked questions
About 244 g when spooned into the cup and levelled. Source: USDA FoodData Central.
100 g of milk is 0.41 US cups, or about 6.6 tablespoons.
15.3 g, since a US tablespoon is one sixteenth of a cup. A teaspoon is 5.1 g.
No. This page uses the US cup of 236.6 mL. The metric cup of 250 mL used in Australia, New Zealand and most of Europe holds 258 g of milk, about 6 % more. Old British recipes used a 284 mL cup.