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Convert US kitchen volume: teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, fluid ounces, milliliters, liters, and US gallons. This is not an imperial cup and it does not weigh flour.

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How to convert US cups to milliliters

  1. Enter the recipe amount. The default is 1 US cup.
  2. Keep From as Cups (US) and To as Milliliters, or pick teaspoons, tablespoons, fluid ounces, liters, or gallons.
  3. Read milliliters. One US legal cup on this page is 236.5882365 ml.
  4. Swap units to go from milliliters back to cups. Density jobs such as cups of flour to grams are not on this form.

US legal cup

US customary cooking volume

US legal cup1 cup = 236.5882365 ml
Teaspoon (US)1 tsp = 4.92892159375 ml
Tablespoon (US)1 tbsp = 14.78676478125 ml
Fluid ounce (US)1 fl oz = 29.5735295625 ml
US gallon1 gal = 3785.411784 ml
Liter1 l = 1000 ml

What this cooking converter does

This list is liquid volume with US customary kitchen units plus milliliters and liters. The cup is the US legal cup, 236.5882365 ml (exactly 231/1000 of a US gallon of 3785.411784 ml). A US teaspoon is 4.92892159375 ml. A US tablespoon is 14.78676478125 ml, three of those teaspoons. A US fluid ounce is 29.5735295625 ml.

UK imperial cups and pints are not on this page. Broader volume including UK gallons lives on the volume converter and on liters to gallons. The unit converter can change dimension.

US cup and spoon factors

Canonical unit here is the milliliter. 1 tbsp = 3 tsp. 1 cup = 8 US fl oz = 16 tbsp. 1 US gal = 16 cups = 3785.411784 ml. Those milliliter constants match the volume engine, so a cup on this page equals a cup on the volume converter.

Volume, not mass

A cup of water is not a cup of flour by weight. Packing, grind, and hydration change grams per cup. This converter never asks for an ingredient, so it will not print grams. Use a kitchen scale for baking mass. Do not treat this cup as the old imperial cup (~284 ml) or a metric 250 ml cup unless you pick milliliters yourself and type 250.

When to convert cooking volume here

Scale a US recipe into milliliters, turn tablespoons into teaspoons, or check how many cups sit in a US gallon of stock. Leave dry goods by weight and UK imperial recipes on other tools.

What this page does not do

It does not convert cups of flour to grams. It does not list UK cups. It does not convert oven temperature. Values stay in this browser.

Cooking converter questions

How many milliliters are in 1 US cup?
236.5882365 ml on this page, the US legal cup.
How many teaspoons are in a tablespoon?
Three US teaspoons. 1 tbsp = 14.78676478125 ml.
Is this the UK cup?
No. This list is US customary. Use the volume converter if you need UK gallons.
Can I convert cups of flour to grams?
No. Density varies. Weigh the flour.
How many US cups are in a liter?
About 4.22675 US cups, because 1000 / 236.5882365.
Does Swap change US to imperial?
No. Swap only exchanges the two selected units on this US list.