Tablespoons to Grams — Uncooked White Rice

About the Tablespoons to Grams — Uncooked White Rice

The figure here is uncooked long-grain rice. Cooked rice weighs roughly three times as much per cup because of absorbed water, so a recipe calling for "2 cups rice" means something completely different depending on which it meant — check whether a cooking step follows. One cup uncooked gives about three cups cooked, feeding three people as a side. The figure this page works from is 185 g per US cup, the spooned-and-levelled weight recorded by King Arthur Baking and the USDA food database. Converting tablespoon to gram for uncooked white rice, the amounts that come up most often are: 1/2 tablespoon = 5.78 gram; 1 tablespoon = 11.6 gram; 2 tablespoon = 23.1 gram; 3 tablespoon = 34.7 gram; 4 tablespoon = 46.3 gram; 6 tablespoon = 69.4 gram; 8 tablespoon = 92.5 gram; 12 tablespoon = 139 gram; 16 tablespoon = 185 gram.

What people use it for

• Following a US recipe with a kitchen scale instead of cup measures.
• Scaling a recipe up or down without compounding measuring error.
• Converting a European recipe written in grams into cups.

Details

The maths behind it

This tool uses gram = tablespoon × 11.5625, derived from uncooked white rice weighing 185 g per US cup. Every intermediate value is shown on screen, so the result can be checked by hand.

Where this tool stops

Volume-to-weight conversion is inherently approximate. Humidity, brand, how finely something is milled and how long it has sat in the cupboard all shift the figure by a few per cent.