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Stick of Butter to Tablespoons
Instant cup to tbsp conversion for home cooks.
0.5 cup = 8 tbsp
Why cooks convert these units
Many recipes list cup while your scale or measuring spoons use tbsp. This converter uses standard US cooking equivalents.
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Are these conversions exact?
Volume and weight conversions use standard US cooking equivalents. For ingredient-specific cup weights, use our ingredient converter pages.