Sticks of Butter to Grams Converter (stick to g)

US butter is sold by the pound in four wrapped sticks, and American recipes are written around them: "1 stick", "1½ sticks", "2 sticks, softened". Each stick is a quarter pound, which comes to exactly 113.3980925 g because the pound is fixed at 0.45359237 kg. That makes this a true weight conversion with no density assumption; the result is as good as the stick's own net weight.

Converting to grams helps when following a US recipe with a scale, buying butter outside the US, or checking a recipe that mixes sticks and grams. European and British butter usually comes in 250 g blocks, roughly 2.2 sticks each, so two sticks' worth means cutting about 23 g off a block. Sticks sold in the western US are shorter and thicker than the long eastern ones, but both weigh a quarter pound.

How to use this tool

1. Type a value in the Stick of Butter box to see it in grams of butter, or type in the Gram of Butter box to convert the other way.
2. Press ⇄ to swap the two units, or Load example for a typical value.
3. Check the charts below for common values; for other units, open the Cooking Measure converter.

Formula

grams = sticks × 113.3980925 (1 stick = ¼ lb)

sticks = grams ÷ 113.3980925 (1 stick = ¼ lb)

Both factors come from the converter's own definitions: 1 gram of butter = 0.0088184904874 sticks of butter and 1 stick of butter = 113.3980925 grams of butter (shown to 12 significant digits).

Example

Two conversions worked with the same factors the converter uses:

1.5 stick ≈ 170.097 g butter

250 g butter ≈ 2.20462 stick

Stick of Butter to Gram of Butter chart

Common values from sticks of butter to grams of butter, rounded to four decimal places.

Gram of Butter to Stick of Butter chart

The reverse direction for values people often look up.

Butter by the stick in US recipes

Quick mental estimate

Count 1 stick as 113 g and 2 sticks as 227 g: 3 sticks → 227 + 113 = 340 g. The exact figure is 340.19 g, so the shortcut is about 0.2 g low.

Use the converter or the charts when the exact figure matters.

The two units

Stick of Butter (stick): A US stick of butter weighs ¼ lb (4 oz, about 113.4 g) and measures ½ cup, or 8 tablespoons, which are usually marked on the wrapper. Four sticks make a 1 lb pack.

Gram of Butter (g butter): Grams of butter, converted at 1 US cup = ½ lb = 226.8 g (about 0.959 g/mL), the ratio on US butter packs where 2 sticks make a cup; USDA lists 227 g per cup. A tablespoon of butter weighs about 14.2 g.