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Cups of Table Salt to Grams
How many grams are in cups of table salt? Type a value below to see the result instantly. Cooking conversions depend on the density of each ingredient — the math here uses 1.217 g/mL for table salt.
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1 cup of table salt = 287.93 g
Cups of Table Salt to Grams Conversion Table
Common values for table salt:
| Cups of table salt | Grams |
|---|---|
| 0.25 cup | 71.9819 g |
| 0.5 cup | 143.96 g |
| 1 cup | 287.93 g |
| 2 cup | 575.86 g |
| 3 cup | 863.78 g |
| 4 cup | 1151.71 g |
| 5 cup | 1439.64 g |
| 8 cup | 2303.42 g |
| 10 cup | 2879.28 g |
How this works
Table salt has a density of about 1.217 g/mL (reference: 1 tsp = 6g). That means 1 mL of table salt weighs 1.217 grams.
Grams = cups × 287.9276
Note: Fine-grain iodized or non-iodized. Coarser salts are less dense.
Why a cup of table salt doesn't always weigh the same
Volume measurements are forgiving in some ways and brutal in others. A cup of table salt can vary by 10-20% in weight depending on how it's measured: spooned vs scooped, packed vs loose, sifted vs unsifted. The density figure used here matches the most common published recipe conventions, but if you're after baking precision, weighing on a kitchen scale is more accurate than measuring by volume.