Convert Sour cream: cups to tablespoons
1 cup of Sour cream = 16 tablespoons
Amount of Sour cream
Density: 0.972 g/ml · Sour cream
Sour cream: cups to tablespoons 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.
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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 tablespoons is 1 cup of Sour cream?
1 cup of Sour cream is 16 tablespoons. Cups, millilitres, tablespoons and teaspoons all measure volume, so this figure is the same whatever is in the cup — a US cup is 236.588 ml, 16 tablespoons and 48 teaspoons by definition. What the ingredient changes is the weight: a cup of Sour cream is 230 g.
How many cups is 2 tablespoons of Sour cream?
2 tablespoons of Sour cream is 0.125 cups. It is the same conversion read backwards, so this page and its reverse always agree.
How many tablespoons of Sour cream are in a cup?
Sixteen — a US cup is 16 tablespoons and 48 teaspoons by definition, for every ingredient there is. What Sour cream decides is what they weigh: one tablespoon is 14.38 g and one teaspoon is 4.79 g, against 230 g for the whole 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.