To convert grams of uncooked brown rice into tablespoons, multiply by 0.084210526: one gram comes to 0.084210526 tablespoons. Every ingredient has its own figure here, because the units are measuring different things and only the density links them.
Water is the yardstick: 1 mL of it weighs 1 g. Uncooked brown rice comes in at 0.80308 g per mL, or 80.31% of water, which is why a cup of it is 190 g rather than 236.6 g. Volume and weight only line up for water, and only in metric.
A level tablespoon of uncooked brown rice is 11.88 g, which puts a teaspoon at 3.958 g and a tablespoon and a half — the quantity recipes are fondest of — at 17.81 g. Levelling twice is where the error comes from, so the scale is the faster instrument once the quantity passes a couple of spoons.
Grams are the unit this conversion is really for. A domestic scale resolves to a gram, which is 0.526% of a cup of uncooked brown rice, so weighing gets an accuracy no measuring cup can reach. A 500 g pack of it is 2.632 cups, and a 1 kg pack 5.263.
What the number depends on: The bran layer left on the grain makes it slightly heavier per cup than white rice of the same variety.
The formula
grams- The amount of uncooked brown rice you are converting, in grams
0.0842105263158- Tablespoons per gram for uncooked brown rice, from its density of 0.80308 g/mL
tablespoons- The equivalent quantity in tablespoons
How it works, step by step
- Enter the quantity in grams.
- It is multiplied by 0.0842105263158, the tablespoons-per-gram figure for uncooked brown rice.
- The result appears in tablespoons, with a second reading in tsp beneath it.
- Use the measure table if you want a standard recipe quantity rather than a number you type in.
Worked examples
50 g of uncooked brown rice in tablespoons
Take 50 g of uncooked brown rice: 50 × 0.084210526 gives 4.21053 tablespoons. Doubling the batch takes it to 8.42105 tablespoons, because the relationship is a straight proportion once the density is known.
150 g of uncooked brown rice in tablespoons
A recipe calling for 150 g of uncooked brown rice needs 12.6316 tablespoons on the scale. The arithmetic is 150 × 0.084210526 = 12.631579, and halving the recipe halves the weight to 6.31579 tablespoons.
500 g of uncooked brown rice in tablespoons
500 g of uncooked brown rice weighs out at 42.1053 tablespoons. Divide 42.1053 by 0.084210526 and you get back to 500 g, which is the quickest check that the factor is the right way up.
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Frequently asked questions
How many tablespoons are in 1 g of uncooked brown rice?
One gram of uncooked brown rice is 0.084210526 tablespoons. Half that quantity is 0.0421053 tablespoons and double it is 0.168421 tablespoons, so the figure scales straight up and down — there is no offset in this conversion, only the factor.
Why is a cup of uncooked brown rice not 236 g like water?
Because weight per cup depends on what is in the cup. Uncooked brown rice has a density of 0.80308 g per mL where water has 1.00, so a cup of it weighs 190 g rather than 236.6 g. That is a difference of 46.6 g per cup, and it is the reason a single volume-to-weight factor cannot be applied to every ingredient.
Does how I measure it change the weight?
Yes, and by more than most people expect. Handling changes the weight of a cup of uncooked brown rice by roughly 20% — about 19 g either side of 190 g — because the bran layer left on the grain makes it slightly heavier per cup than white rice of the same variety. Weighing removes the question entirely.
Is a fluid ounce of uncooked brown rice the same as an ounce?
No. A fluid ounce is a volume — one eighth of a US cup, 29.57 mL — and an ounce is a weight. One fluid ounce of uncooked brown rice weighs 0.8378 oz, so the two readings differ by 16.2%. They coincide only for something with the density of water, and then only roughly.
Is this a US cup or a metric cup?
US customary: 236.59 mL, which is the cup every US recipe means. A metric cup is 250 mL, so the same cup of uncooked brown rice would weigh 200.77 g instead of 190 g — 10.8 g more, or 5.67%. Australian and some European recipes use the metric cup, and the difference is large enough to matter in baking.
Do I need a scale for this, or will measuring cups do?
A scale, if the result matters. Volume measuring carries a spread of about 20% for uncooked brown rice — roughly 38 g on a 190 g cup — while a domestic scale is accurate to a gram or two. For anything where the ratio of ingredients drives the outcome, bread and pastry above all, weigh it.
How much does 3 tbsp of uncooked brown rice weigh?
3 tbsp of uncooked brown rice comes to 35.625 g, or 35.625 grams. This page runs that calculation in reverse — enter a weight and it returns the volume — and the tablespoons-to-grams page does it in the direction the question is usually asked.
Uncooked brown rice in grams and tablespoons
| Grams | Tablespoons | Unrounded |
|---|---|---|
| 5 g | 0.421053 tbsp | 0.4210526316 |
| 10 g | 0.842105 tbsp | 0.8421052632 |
| 25 g | 2.10526 tbsp | 2.105263158 |
| 50 g | 4.21053 tbsp | 4.210526316 |
| 100 g | 8.42105 tbsp | 8.421052632 |
| 125 g | 10.5263 tbsp | 10.52631579 |
| 150 g | 12.6316 tbsp | 12.63157895 |
| 200 g | 16.8421 tbsp | 16.84210526 |
| 250 g | 21.0526 tbsp | 21.05263158 |
| 300 g | 25.2632 tbsp | 25.26315789 |
| 500 g | 42.1053 tbsp | 42.10526316 |
| 1000 g | 84.2105 tbsp | 84.21052632 |
Based on 190 g per cup of uncooked brown rice. One gram of uncooked brown rice is 0.084210526 tablespoons.
| Measure | Grams | Ounces | Millilitres |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 cup | 190 g | 6.7 oz | 236.6 mL |
| 1 tbsp | 11.88 g | 0.419 oz | 14.79 mL |
| 2 tsp | 7.917 g | 0.279 oz | 9.858 mL |
| 1 tsp | 3.958 g | 0.14 oz | 4.929 mL |
| 3/4 tsp | 2.969 g | 0.105 oz | 3.697 mL |
| 1/2 tsp | 1.979 g | 0.0698 oz | 2.464 mL |
| 1/4 tsp | 0.9896 g | 0.0349 oz | 1.232 mL |
| 1/8 tsp | 0.4948 g | 0.0175 oz | 0.6161 mL |
US customary measures: 1 cup = 236.59 mL, 1 tbsp = 14.79 mL, 1 tsp = 4.93 mL.
| Ingredient | Grams per cup | Ounces per cup | Density (g/mL) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uncooked quinoa | 170 g | 5.997 oz | 0.7185 |
| Dry couscous | 170 g | 5.997 oz | 0.7185 |
| Uncooked white rice | 185 g | 6.526 oz | 0.7819 |
| Uncooked brown rice (this page) | 190 g | 6.702 oz | 0.8031 |
| Dried lentils | 192 g | 6.773 oz | 0.8115 |
| Granulated sugar | 200 g | 7.055 oz | 0.8454 |
| Arborio rice | 200 g | 7.055 oz | 0.8454 |
Ordered by weight. The spread across this group is why a single generic cups-to-grams factor cannot work.