Table salt: cups to grams
Table salt is dense, 288 g per cup and 18 g per tablespoon, but the important number is the teaspoon: 6 g. Kosher salt is much lighter by volume, about 3 g per teaspoon for Diamond Crystal and 5 g for Morton, so a recipe written for one salt is oversalted or undersalted with another unless converted by weight.
1 cup table salt = 288 g · 1 tbsp = 18 g · 100 g = 0.35 cups
Based on 288 g per US cup of table salt, spooned and levelled. Real-world cups vary by about ±10 % for powders.
How to measure table salt
Level teaspoons, or a scale for anything over a tablespoon. Table salt 6 g/tsp, Morton kosher 5 g/tsp, Diamond Crystal kosher 3 g/tsp, fine sea salt about 5 g/tsp.
Weight is the only measure that does not depend on the container or on how the ingredient was filled. The figure of 288 g per US cup comes from the King Arthur Baking ingredient weight chart; other charts differ by a few percent, which is within the spread between two cooks filling the same cup.
Cups of table salt to grams
| Cups | Volume | Weight | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⅛ cup | 30 mL | 36 g | 1.3 oz |
| ¼ cup | 59 mL | 72 g | 2.5 oz |
| ⅓ cup | 79 mL | 96 g | 3.4 oz |
| ½ cup | 118 mL | 144 g | 5.1 oz |
| ⅔ cup | 158 mL | 192 g | 6.8 oz |
| ¾ cup | 177 mL | 216 g | 7.6 oz |
| 1 cup | 237 mL | 288 g | 10.2 oz |
| 1½ cups | 355 mL | 432 g | 15.2 oz |
| 2 cups | 473 mL | 576 g | 20.3 oz |
| 3 cups | 710 mL | 864 g | 30.5 oz |
| 4 cups | 946 mL | 1,152 g | 40.6 oz |
Spoons and metric measures
| Measure | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1 teaspoon | 6 g |
| 1 tablespoon | 18 g |
| 2 tablespoons | 36 g |
| 4 tablespoons (¼ cup) | 72 g |
| Metric cup, 250 mL | 304 g |
| 100 mL | 122 g |
Grams of table salt to cups
| Weight | US cups | Tablespoons | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 g | 0.09 cups | 1.4 tbsp | 0.88 oz |
| 50 g | 0.17 cups | 2.8 tbsp | 1.76 oz |
| 75 g | 0.26 cups | 4.2 tbsp | 2.65 oz |
| 100 g | 0.35 cups | 5.6 tbsp | 3.53 oz |
| 125 g | 0.43 cups | 6.9 tbsp | 4.41 oz |
| 150 g | 0.52 cups | 8.3 tbsp | 5.29 oz |
| 200 g | 0.69 cups | 11.1 tbsp | 7.05 oz |
| 250 g | 0.87 cups | 13.9 tbsp | 8.82 oz |
| 300 g | 1.04 cups | 16.7 tbsp | 10.58 oz |
| 400 g | 1.39 cups | 22.2 tbsp | 14.11 oz |
| 500 g | 1.74 cups | 27.8 tbsp | 17.64 oz |
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Frequently asked questions
About 288 g when spooned into the cup and levelled. Source: King Arthur Baking.
100 g of table salt is 0.35 US cups, or about 5.6 tablespoons.
18 g, since a US tablespoon is one sixteenth of a cup. A teaspoon is 6 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 304 g of table salt, about 6 % more. Old British recipes used a 284 mL cup.