Grams to teaspoons converter

6 grams of table salt is 1 tsp: pick the ingredient, type the grams, get teaspoons.

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6 g table salt

1 tsp

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US cup of 236.6 mL

How this is measured

1 US cup of table salt weighs 288 g. Based on King Arthur's ingredient weight chart.

How to convert grams to teaspoons

Divide the grams by the weight of one level teaspoon of the ingredient. A US teaspoon is 1/48 of a US cup (NIST Handbook 44), so its weight is the sourced weight of a cup ÷ 48. King Arthur Baking's chart gives table salt as 18 grams a tablespoon, so a teaspoon, a third of that, is 6 grams; 6 grams of salt is 1 tsp and 12 grams is 2 tsp. Granulated sugar is lighter per spoon: 33 grams of sugar is 8 tsp.

Under the number, the converter also shows the spoons to fill, the way a recipe would write it.

Grams and teaspoons: a unit of weight and a unit of volume

A gram is a unit of weight, abbreviated as g; a teaspoon is a unit of volume, abbreviated as tsp, and a US customary teaspoon is 4.93 milliliters. Grams measure weight and teaspoons measure volume, so converting between weight and volume takes the ingredient: 1 gram of sugar is 0.242 tsp, while a gram of flour is 0.4 tsp, because a teaspoon of flour weighs 2.5 grams and a teaspoon of granulated sugar 4.13 grams. Tablespoons to teaspoons and cups to teaspoons need no ingredient: a tablespoon is 3 teaspoons and a cup 48 teaspoons.

To convert from grams to teaspoons for any other ingredient, pick it in the converter. In cooking and baking a recipe written by weight rather than volume is the more exact one, so weigh when you can and use the number of teaspoons when there is no scale at hand.

Grams to teaspoons chart

Small gram amounts of the ingredients people weigh by the gram, in level US teaspoons:

US teaspoons (1/48 cup), level. Flour spooned and leveled; sugar granulated; salt table salt.

Grams to US teaspoons, by ingredient
Grams	Table salt	Granulated sugar	All-purpose flour	Cocoa powder	Honey	Vegetable oil
1 g	0.167 tsp	0.242 tsp	0.4 tsp	0.571 tsp	0.142 tsp	0.22 tsp
2 g	0.333 tsp	0.485 tsp	0.8 tsp	1.14 tsp	0.283 tsp	0.44 tsp
3 g	0.5 tsp	0.727 tsp	1.2 tsp	1.71 tsp	0.425 tsp	0.661 tsp
4 g	0.667 tsp	0.97 tsp	1.6 tsp	2.29 tsp	0.566 tsp	0.881 tsp
5 g	0.833 tsp	1.21 tsp	2 tsp	2.86 tsp	0.708 tsp	1.1 tsp
6 g	1 tsp	1.45 tsp	2.4 tsp	3.43 tsp	0.85 tsp	1.32 tsp
8 g	1.33 tsp	1.94 tsp	3.2 tsp	4.57 tsp	1.13 tsp	1.76 tsp
10 g	1.67 tsp	2.42 tsp	4 tsp	5.71 tsp	1.42 tsp	2.2 tsp
12 g	2 tsp	2.91 tsp	4.8 tsp	6.86 tsp	1.7 tsp	2.64 tsp
15 g	2.5 tsp	3.64 tsp	6 tsp	8.57 tsp	2.12 tsp	3.3 tsp
20 g	3.33 tsp	4.85 tsp	8 tsp	11.43 tsp	2.83 tsp	4.4 tsp
25 g	4.17 tsp	6.06 tsp	10 tsp	14.29 tsp	3.54 tsp	5.5 tsp

How many teaspoons in a gram of powder

A light powder fills more spoons per gram than salt or sugar. 1 gram of cocoa powder is 0.571 tsp, 1 gram of powdered sugar 0.425 tsp and 1 gram of all-purpose flour 0.4 tsp. Spoons this small are hard to fill the same way twice, so for a gram or two a scale that reads tenths of a gram is the reliable tool.

Grams of baking soda, baking powder and yeast in teaspoons

Recipes that weigh their leaveners convert back to spoons by King Arthur Baking's weights: 6 grams of baking soda is 1 tsp, 8 grams of baking powder is 2 tsp and 9 grams of instant yeast is 3 tsp, the same as 1 tbsp.

Level US teaspoons (1/48 cup). King Arthur Baking gives ½ teaspoon of baking soda, 1 teaspoon of baking powder and 1 tablespoon of instant yeast by weight; the rest follows from the US spoon.

Grams of baking soda, baking powder and instant yeast in teaspoons
Grams	Baking soda	Baking powder	Instant yeast
1 g	0.167 tsp	0.25 tsp	0.333 tsp
2 g	0.333 tsp	0.5 tsp	0.667 tsp
3 g	0.5 tsp	0.75 tsp	1 tsp
4 g	0.667 tsp	1 tsp	1.33 tsp
5 g	0.833 tsp	1.25 tsp	1.67 tsp
6 g	1 tsp	1.5 tsp	2 tsp
8 g	1.33 tsp	2 tsp	2.67 tsp
9 g	1.5 tsp	2.25 tsp	3 tsp
10 g	1.67 tsp	2.5 tsp	3.33 tsp
12 g	2 tsp	3 tsp	4 tsp

USDA lists other weights for a teaspoon of these powders; the converter shows them under "How this is measured" and keeps King Arthur's as the answer.

Teaspoons in an ounce

An ounce is 28.35 grams (NIST), so teaspoons in an ounce are those grams ÷ the grams in a teaspoon: 1 ounce of granulated sugar is 6.87 tsp, of table salt 4.72 tsp and of all-purpose flour 11.34 tsp. Pick oz in "From" for any other ingredient.

Questions

How do I convert grams to teaspoons?

Divide by the grams in one teaspoon of the ingredient: 6 grams for table salt, 4.13 grams for granulated sugar. The teaspoons to grams page lists the weight of a teaspoon of each ingredient.

Is 1 tsp how many grams?

It depends on what is in it: 6 grams of table salt, 4.13 grams of sugar, 4.73 grams of butter.

What is 1 gram of powder in teaspoons?

0.571 tsp of cocoa powder, 0.429 tsp of cornstarch. Other powders vary with how fine and how packed they are.

How do I measure 1 gram of powder?

Weigh it on a scale that reads tenths of a gram. By volume, 1 gram of cocoa powder is 0.571 tsp, a little over half a teaspoon, but a spoon that small varies from fill to fill.

How many teaspoons is 6 grams of baking soda?

1 tsp, level, by King Arthur Baking's weight of 6 grams a teaspoon.

How many teaspoons is 8 grams of baking powder?

2 tsp: a level teaspoon of baking powder weighs 4 grams.

How many teaspoons is 10 grams of salt?

1.67 tsp of table salt, by King Arthur Baking's weight.

Sources

21 CFR 101.9 (US nutrition labeling)
America's Test Kitchen baking conversion chart
America's Test Kitchen, Baking Basics: Measuring Ingredients
King Arthur Baking ingredient weight chart
King Arthur Baking, How to measure flour
Manufacturer's label serving size, as listed in USDA FoodData Central (Branded Foods)
NIST Chemistry WebBook (Standard Reference Database 69), water
NIST Handbook 44, Appendix C
NIST Special Publication 430, Household Weights and Measures
USDA FoodData Central, FNDDS survey foods
USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy
USDA Nutritive Value of Foods, Home and Garden Bulletin No. 72
Weights and Measures Act 1985 (UK), Schedule 1