Convert Tablespoons to Pints

About converting Tablespoons to Pints

Tablespoons (tbsp) and Pints (pt) are both units of volume, so converting between them is a single multiplication: multiply your Tablespoons figure by 0.03125. Ten Tablespoons comes to 0.3125 Pints, and a hundred works out at 3.125 Pints.

Rule of thumb: going from Tablespoons to Pints divides, so the figure always shrinks — it takes about 32 Tablespoons to make a single Pint. If your answer came out bigger, you have the conversion the wrong way round.

What is a Tablespoon?

A tablespoon in US cooking is three teaspoons, or half a US fluid ounce — a definition tidy enough that the whole kitchen spoon system hangs off it. The trap is international: the Australian tablespoon is 20 mL, four teaspoons rather than three, so an Australian recipe followed with an American spoon falls short on every tablespoon it calls for. It is also worth knowing that a tablespoon as a measure has nothing to do with whatever spoon is in your cutlery drawer. The sets sold for cooking are calibrated; the ones you eat with are not.

What is a Pint?

The pint is where the US-imperial split becomes most visible, because both countries still use the word every day. A US pint is 16 US fluid ounces; an imperial pint is 20 imperial fluid ounces, making the British pint the larger by about a fifth. So a pint of beer in London is meaningfully more beer than a pint in New York — the same word, a different drink, and no label anywhere warns you. The imperial pint is also one of the few imperial units still legally mandated in the UK, where draught beer and cider must be sold in pints or fractions of one.

To put both in perspective: a tablespoon is roughly a generous spoonful of olive oil, while a pint is the standard glass of beer in a British pub.

The converter above updates as you type, and the table lists common values for quick reference. Need the opposite direction? Use the Pints to Tablespoons converter, or browse all Volume converters.