Butter: Grams to Tablespoons Converter

In baking and culinary science, butter presents one of the most common conversion stumbling blocks between European and North American recipes. While recipes from France, the United Kingdom, and Australia specify butter by exact weight in grams (e.g., 100g of butter or 250g of butter), traditional American recipes dictate butter by volume spoons, cups, or pre-wrapped quarter-pound "sticks."

The Universal Tablespoon Formula: Pure butter has an approximate solid density of 0.911 g/mL to 0.96 g/mL when melted. Because 1 standard US customary tablespoon holds exactly 14.79 mL of volume, one level tablespoon of butter weighs approximately 14.18 grams.

For example, to convert the two most searched quantities:

• 100 grams of butter to tablespoons: 100 ÷ 14.175 = 7.05 tablespoons (approx. 7 level tablespoons).
• 50 grams of butter to tablespoons: 50 ÷ 14.175 = 3.53 tablespoons (approx. 3 ½ level tablespoons).