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    How many tbsp are in one cup of rice?

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    edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    When ordering from a restaurant to the office, I can't measure the rice in a cup, but in tbsp.
    I'm a little confused by how to calculate it, and couldn't find one answer online.

    Does anyone know?

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    • Posts: 18,934 Member
      edited February 2015
      Shushonet wrote: »
      When ordering from a restaurant to the office, I can't measure the rice in a cup, but in tbsp.
      I'm a little confused by how to calculate it, and couldn't find one answer online.

      Does anyone know?

      While cup and tablespoon measurements vary somewhat worldwide, generally speaking around 16 tablespoons make 1 cup and because cooked rice is a solid, and better measured by weight because a cup depends on how much you pack it, 16 TBS is sufficiently close for your work measuring needs.
    • Posts: 10,628 Member
      Alatariel75 wrote: »
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      While cup and tablespoon measurements vary somewhat worldwide, generally speaking around 16 tablespoons make 1 cup and because cooked rice is a solid, and better measured by weight because a cup depends on how much you pack it, 16 TBS is sufficiently close for your work measuring needs.
      /thread

    • Posts: 4,710 Member
      You're better off just eyeballing a cup
    • Posts: 4,440 Member
      Why not just have a food scale in your desk and weigh it when it shows up? More accurate anyway.
    • Posts: 352 Member
      Shushonet wrote: »
      When ordering from a restaurant to the office, I can't measure the rice in a cup, but in tbsp.
      I'm a little confused by how to calculate it, and couldn't find one answer online.

      Does anyone know?

      http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+many+tbsp+in+a+cup
    • Posts: 518 Member
      hollydubs85 wrote: »
      Why not just have a food scale in your desk and weigh it when it shows up? More accurate anyway.

      This. It'll be much faster than scooping out tablespoons as well.
    • Posts: 3,783 Member
      peter56765 wrote: »
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      http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+many+tbsp+in+a+cup

      Love this!
    • Posts: 1,492 Member
      peter56765 wrote: »
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      http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+many+tbsp+in+a+cup

      Awesome.

    • Posts: 37
      hollydubs85 wrote: »
      Why not just have a food scale in your desk and weigh it when it shows up? More accurate anyway.

      I would, but we work in an open space environment and I want to keep my diet to myself without any questions from co-workers
    • Posts: 37
      peter56765 wrote: »
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      http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+many+tbsp+in+a+cup

      lol thanks! I'm not a native English speaker, so I've searched google in Hebrew without thinking about trying English...
    • Posts: 37
      Alatariel75 wrote: »
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      While cup and tablespoon measurements vary somewhat worldwide, generally speaking around 16 tablespoons make 1 cup and because cooked rice is a solid, and better measured by weight because a cup depends on how much you pack it, 16 TBS is sufficiently close for your work measuring needs.

      Thank you!
      I must say 16 tbsp sounds like a lot, I don't know why. I've tried eyeballing it today at lunch and it seemed too much.
      I'll count the tbsp at home to verify
    • Posts: 1 Member
      I mesured at home and for me it was 10 spoons for a cup. That is a regular glass cup.
    • Posts: 3,834 Member
      A cup is a liquid measure that is equal to 16 tablespoons of liquid. Rice is not a liquid. Measuring it by volume is problematic because the air between the granules takes up space that a liquid would fill. Each time you manipulated the rice, more air got trapped between the grains, therefore you were only able to fit 10 tablespoons of rice in the cup when you tried it at home. If you pressed down on the rice as you put it in the cup, you might be able to get twice as much rice in the cup. This is why measuring dry ingredients by volume is so problematic.
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