What is bigger 1/3 cup or 1/4 cup?

1 Cup

"1 Cup" is equal to 8 fluid ounces in US Standard Volume. It is a measure used in cooking.

A Metric Cup is slightly different: it is 250 milliliters (which is about 8.5 fluid ounces).


Ounces
(at 8 oz per cup)
Tablespoons
(at 16 Tbs per cup)
milliliters
(at 250 ml per cup)
¼ cup 2 oz 4 Tbs 63 ml
1/3 cup About 2¾ oz About 5 Tbs 83 ml
½ cup 4 oz 8 Tbs 125 ml
2/3 cup About 5¼ oz About 11 Tbs 167 ml
¾ cup 6 oz 12 Tbs 188 ml
1 cup 8 oz 16 Tbs 250 ml
1 ¼ cup 10 oz 20 Tbs 313 ml
1 ½ cup 12 oz 24 Tbs 375 ml
1 ¾ cup 14 oz 28 Tbs 438 ml
2 cups 16 oz 32 Tbs 500 ml
4 cups 32 oz 64 Tbs 1000 ml (1 liter)
8 cups 64 oz 128 Tbs 2000 ml (2 liters)

(In italics: not exact)

Measuring Cups

What is bigger 1/3 cup or 1/4 cup?

Measuring cups are used to measure liquids, or powders like flour or sugar.

As we fill up the measuring cup, we need to look at which number it is filled to.

What is bigger 1/3 cup or 1/4 cup?

Here we have 2/3 cup (two-thirds of a cup) of milk.

What is bigger 1/3 cup or 1/4 cup?

And they can also measure milliliters (ml):

Here we have 150 ml.

It doesn't say "150" ... it says "50" ... but it is half-way between 100 and 200 so we can figure out it is 150 ml.

What is bigger 1/3 cup or 1/4 cup?

There are also special ones designed to hold an exact amount, such as these 1/2 cup and 1/4 cup measures.

What is bigger 1/3 cup or 1/4 cup?

They can also hold more than "1 Cup" of liquid.

This measuring cup holds up to 4 cups of liquid. If the liquid goes all the way to the 3, then there are 3 cups of liquid. Between the numbers we find fractions of a cup. 

2 cups of a liquid is the same thing as 1 pint.  So this measuring cup also holds 2 pints (4 cups equals 2 pints).

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Some handy kitchen knowledge

Even if you have all the right measuring tools, a lot of people can have difficulty using the right cooking measurements. Our cheat sheet below shows measuring equivalents for teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, pints, fluid ounces, and more. This page also includes the conversions for metric and U.S. systems of measurement.

For more conversions, including Fahrenheit to Celsius temperature conversions, try out the Infoplease.com conversion calculator.

1 tablespoon (tbsp) = 3 teaspoons (tsp)
1/16 cup = 1 tablespoon
1/8 cup = 2 tablespoons
1/6 cup = 2 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons
1/4 cup = 4 tablespoons
1/3 cup = 5 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon
3/8 cup = 6 tablespoons
1/2 cup = 8 tablespoons
2/3 cup = 10 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons
3/4 cup = 12 tablespoons
   
1 cup = 48 teaspoons
1 cup = 16 tablespoons
8 fluid ounces (fl oz) = 1 cup
1 pint (pt) = 2 cups
1 quart (qt) = 2 pints
4 cups = 1 quart
1 gallon (gal) = 4 quarts
16 ounces (oz) = 1 pound (lb)
1 milliliter (ml) = 1 cubic centimeter (cc)
1 inch (in) = 2.54 centimeters (cm)

Source: United States Dept. of Agriculture (USDA).

Note: US cups are typically used as a kitchen measurement for both liquid ingredients and dry ingredients. Conversely, ounces are a weight measurement while fluid ounces are a volume measurement. To make things more confusing, although most recipes use cups for liquid measurements, most commercial products use fluid ounces.  

U.S. to Metric

One important thing to note with these cooking measurement conversions is that they directly translate imperial measurements to their metric counterparts. But, it's common in recipes using the metric system to use weight measurements for dry ingredients instead of volumetric ones. If you don't have a kitchen scale handy, you might have to be a bit clever with your measuring cups.

CAPACITYWEIGHT
1/5 teaspoon 1 milliliter 1 oz 28 grams
1 teaspoon 5 ml 1 pound 454 grams
1 tablespoon 15 ml    
1 fluid oz 30 ml    
1/5 cup 47 ml    
1 cup 237 ml    
2 cups (1 pint) 473 ml    
4 cups (1 quart) .95 liter    
4 quarts (1 gal.) 3.8 liters    

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Metric to U.S.

CAPACITYWEIGHT
1 milliliter 1/5 teaspoon 1 gram .035 ounce
5 ml 1 teaspoon 100 grams 3.5 ounces
15 ml 1 tablespoon 500 grams 1.10 pounds
100 ml 3.4 fluid oz 1 kilogram 2.205 pounds
= 35 ounces
240 ml 1 cup    
1 liter 34 fluid oz
= 4.2 cups
= 2.1 pints
= 1.06 quarts
= 0.26 gallon
   

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1/4 cup
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What is bigger 1/2 cup or 1/3 cup?

As such, 1/2 is always greater than 1/3 regardless of the context.

What can I use instead of 1/4 cup?

Measurement Equivalents and Abbreviations.
3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon..
4 tablespoons = 1/4 cup..
5 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon = 1/3 cup..
8 tablespoons = 1/2 cup..
1 cup = 1/2 pint..
2 cups = 1 pint..
4 cups (2 pints) = 1 quart..
4 quarts = 1 gallon..