Millilitres to cups converter (cooking)
1 Millilitres (ml) = 0.004226753 US cups (236.6 ml)
How to convert ml to cups
“A cup” isn’t the same everywhere. A US cup is 236.6 ml (legally 240 ml on US nutrition labels), while the metric cup used in South African, Australian and New Zealand recipes is exactly 250 ml. Old British recipes sometimes mean an imperial cup of 284 ml. So 500 ml is about 2.1 US cups or exactly 2 metric cups. Check where your recipe comes from and pick the right cup in the list above.
Spoons: a tablespoon is 15 ml and a teaspoon is 5 ml in South Africa, the UK and most of the world (US spoons are within 2% of that, 14.8 ml and 4.9 ml, so you can treat them the same). Australian tablespoons are 20 ml, so use 4 teaspoons there.
Cups to grams depends on the ingredient, because a cup measures volume, not weight. Roughly, one 250 ml cup holds about 140 g of cake flour, 200 g of white sugar, 240 g of butter, 90 g of rolled oats or 250 g of water. For baking, a kitchen scale is more accurate than any cup.
ml to cups chart
| Millilitres (ml) | US cups (236.6 ml) |
|---|---|
| 30 | 0.1268026 |
| 50 | 0.2113376 |
| 60 | 0.2536052 |
| 80 | 0.3381402 |
| 100 | 0.4226753 |
| 125 | 0.5283441 |
| 150 | 0.6340129 |
| 200 | 0.8453506 |
| 250 | 1.056688 |
| 300 | 1.268026 |
| 500 | 2.113376 |
| 750 | 3.170065 |
| 1000 | 4.226753 |
Frequently asked questions
How many ml is 1 cup?
A US cup is 236.6 ml; a metric cup (used in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand) is 250 ml; a UK imperial cup is 284 ml.
How many cups is 500 ml?
500 ml is 2 metric cups or about 2.11 US cups.
How many ml is half a cup?
Half a metric cup is 125 ml; half a US cup is about 118 ml.
How many tablespoons are in a cup?
A 250 ml metric cup holds about 16⅔ tablespoons of 15 ml; a US cup is exactly 16 US tablespoons.
Is 1 cup of flour 250 ml?
In a South African recipe, 1 cup of flour means a 250 ml cup, which holds about 140 g of cake flour when spooned in and levelled. Weight varies with how tightly it is packed.