Convert Sour cream: cups to oz
1 cup of Sour cream = 8.11 oz
Amount of Sour cream
Density: 0.972 g/ml · Sour cream
Sour cream: cups to oz at a glance
The amounts people ask for most, worked out for Sour cream.
How much Sour cream weighs
Every figure below is one measured number — 230 g per US cup — scaled. That is why this table and the converter above it cannot disagree.
One cup, side by side
How much does a cup of sour cream weigh?
230 g, per USDA FoodData Central — the lightest of the dairy liquids here, below heavy cream (238 g), whole milk (244 g) and buttermilk (245 g). King Arthur's chart gives all four 227 g, the flat eight-fluid-ounce figure it applies to every liquid, so it is the USDA numbers that keep them apart at all.
Source for Sour cream: USDA FoodData Central · USDA FoodData Central
Frequently asked questions
How many oz is 1 cup of Sour cream?
1 cup of Sour cream is 8.11 oz, because one US cup of Sour cream weighs 230 g. That single measured figure is the whole conversion — every other unit on this page is derived from it.
How many cups is 4 oz of Sour cream?
4 oz of Sour cream is 0.493 cups. It is the same conversion read backwards, so this page and its reverse always agree.
Is that ounces by weight, or fluid ounces?
By weight. dishscale's ounce is the international avoirdupois ounce, 28.3495 g, so one cup of Sour cream is 8.11 oz. A US fluid ounce is a volume and there are eight of them to the cup, so that same cup is 8 fl oz at the same time. The two readings coincide only for an ingredient that happens to weigh eight ounces to the cup.
Where does dishscale's figure for Sour cream come from?
One US cup of Sour cream is 230 g. The dataset records that as: “USDA FoodData Central”. That is the USDA FoodData Central. Every ingredient on the site carries the reference its weight came from, so any number here can be checked — and corrected if the source disagrees.