How many cups is 500 grams of butter?
Answer
≈ 2 ¼ cups
500 grams of butter fills about 2 ¼ cups (2.2 US cups, or about 35.2 tablespoons). The math uses USDA's figure of roughly 227 g per cup.
In the US, one stick of butter is ½ cup or 8 tablespoons, which is about 113 g (USDA rounds a cup to 227 g, so the chart shows 114 g).
Butter: grams to cups
| Weight | US cups | In the kitchen |
|---|---|---|
| 50 g | 0.22 | about ¼ cup |
| 100 g | 0.441 | about ½ cup |
| 125 g | 0.551 | about ½ cup |
| 200 g | 0.881 | about ⅞ cup |
| 250 g | 1.1 | about 1 ⅛ cups |
| 500 g | 2.2 | about 2 ¼ cups |
| 1000 g | 4.41 | about 4 ⅜ cups |
Source: USDA FoodData Central #173430, Butter, without salt. USDA lists 1 cup = 227 g. Weights are approximate.
Measuring tip
Solid fats are easiest to measure by weight or with the markings on the wrapper. Oils and melted fats can go straight into a liquid measuring cup. When a recipe gives grams, a scale is always the most accurate choice.
See also: 1 cup of butter in grams.