Convert Tablespoons to Quarts

About converting Tablespoons to Quarts

Tablespoons (tbsp) and Quarts (qt) are both units of volume, so converting between them is a single multiplication: multiply your Tablespoons figure by 0.01562. Ten Tablespoons comes to 0.1562 Quarts, and a hundred works out at 1.5625 Quarts.

Rule of thumb: going from Tablespoons to Quarts divides, so the figure always shrinks — it takes about 64 Tablespoons to make a single Quart. 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 Quart?

A quart is a quarter of a gallon, which is exactly where the name comes from — the Latin for a fourth part. Because the American and imperial gallons are different sizes, so are their quarts: the imperial quart is the larger by roughly a fifth, a discrepancy that quietly ruins recipes and technical specs copied across the Atlantic without checking. In the United States the quart is a supermarket fixture — milk, cream, motor oil and paint are all sold in them. Britain, having gone metric on the shelf, has largely dropped it and kept only the pint.

To put both in perspective: a tablespoon is roughly a generous spoonful of olive oil, while a quart is the size of a standard carton of American milk.

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