How many grams is 1 tablespoon of water?
1 tablespoon of water weighs
15g
That's 0.5oz. An Australian 20ml tablespoon holds 20g.
A level US or UK tablespoon (15ml). USDA doesn't measure a tablespoon of this, so this is a sixteenth of its cup weight.
Other amounts of water
Where these numbers come from
USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, food 14555: “Water, bottled, generic”. USDA lists these household measures for it:
- 1 fl oz = 29.6g
- 1 cup = 237g
- 1 ml = 1g
Fractions of a cup are the cup weight scaled down. The tablespoon figure is the cup weight divided by 16, since USDA doesn't list a tablespoon for this ingredient. The teaspoon is a third of the tablespoon. Metric-cup figures assume a 250ml cup, and Australian tablespoons hold 20ml. Weights under 10g are rounded to 0.1g, everything else to the nearest gram. Full source list.