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Vegetable oil: cups to grams

One US cup of vegetable oil weighs 218 g, and one tablespoon weighs 14 g. Convert any amount below, in either direction.

Unit
Ingredient

vegetable oil

218 g

7.7 oz

of vegetable oil

Poured. Sunflower, canola and other neutral oils all land within a gram or two.

Vegetable oil conversion table

Every amount a recipe is likely to ask for. Half a cup is 109 g.

vegetable oil measured by volume, converted to grams and ounces
Vegetable oilGramsOunces
1 teaspoon4.5 g0.2 oz
1 tablespoon14 g0.5 oz
1/4 cup55 g1.9 oz
1/3 cup73 g2.6 oz
1/2 cup109 g3.8 oz
2/3 cup145 g5.1 oz
3/4 cup164 g5.8 oz
1 cup218 g7.7 oz
1 1/2 cups327 g11.5 oz
2 cups436 g15.4 oz
3 cups654 g23.1 oz
4 cups872 g30.8 oz

Poured. Sunflower, canola and other neutral oils all land within a gram or two.

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Questions

How many grams is a cup of vegetable oil?

218 g. That is one US customary cup, 236.6 ml. Poured. Sunflower, canola and other neutral oils all land within a gram or two.

How many grams is a tablespoon of vegetable oil?

14 g. A tablespoon is a sixteenth of a cup. A teaspoon of vegetable oil is 4.5 g.

Which cup does this use?

The US customary cup, 236.6 ml, which is the one American recipes mean. A UK or Australian metric cup is 250 ml, about 6% larger, and a Japanese cup is 200 ml. If your recipe is metric, type the millilitres in directly.

Why is my cup of flour heavier than 120 g?

Because of how you filled it. Scooping straight from the bag compacts the flour and can give you 145 g or more; the standard 120 g assumes you spooned it in and levelled it off. That 20% swing is the reason bakers weigh instead of scooping, and it is why halved and doubled recipes go wrong so often.

Are these conversions exact?

They are the standard US baking-reference values, and each ingredient page says how the cup was filled to get its number. For liquids and sugars they are good to within a gram or two. For anything fluffy or packable, like flour, brown sugar or grated cheese, measuring by volume carries more error than the conversion does.

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