Convert Sour cream: grams to teaspoons
100 grams of Sour cream = 20.87 teaspoons
Amount of Sour cream
Density: 0.972 g/ml · Sour cream
Sour cream: grams to teaspoons 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 teaspoons is 100 grams of Sour cream?
100 grams of Sour cream is 20.87 teaspoons, 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 grams is 1 teaspoon of Sour cream?
1 teaspoon of Sour cream is 4.79 grams. 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.