Imperial Pints to US Tablespoons (pt (UK) to tbsp)

1 imperial pint equals 38.43039762 US tablespoons (rounded).

1 imperial pint = 38.43039762 US tablespoons

How to convert imperial pints to US tablespoons

To convert imperial pints to US tablespoons, multiply the number of imperial pints by 38.43039762. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply US tablespoons by 0.02602106827 (rounded).

US tablespoons = imperial pints × 38.43039762

Example: 10 imperial pints = 384.3039762 US tablespoons.

Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.

About these units

Imperial Pint (pt (UK))

Imperial (British)Current unit

Exactly 568.26125 mL (20 imperial fluid ounces). The pint of beer and milk in the UK and Ireland.

The imperial pint derives from Parliament's 1824 decision to replace Britain's assorted gallons with one defined by ten pounds of water at 62 degrees Fahrenheit. A pint is one eighth of that gallon and holds 20 imperial fluid ounces, or exactly 568.26125 milliliters. The word reached English from French pinte, which in modern French now means half a liter, while Canadian French uses it for the imperial quart.

That pint is about 20 percent larger than the US liquid pint of 473 mL, so a pint in Dublin or London buys noticeably more beer than one in Chicago. When Britain metricated, the pint was kept for draught beer and cider and for milk in returnable bottles, and draught beer has to be served in measured, stamped glasses. Culturally the pint is more than a measure: it is shorthand for a night at the pub.

1 imperial pint = 0.56826125 liters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Pint; UK Weights and Measures Act 1985, Schedule 1

US Tablespoon (tbsp)

US customaryCurrent unit

Half a US fluid ounce (14.787 mL), equal to 3 teaspoons.

A tablespoon was once a spoon first and a unit second. Tablespoons entered place settings around 1700, first reserved for soup, and in the 18th century apothecaries used an unofficial tablespoon of four fluid drams, or half a fluid ounce. That is the origin of the modern US definition, which turns the spoon into precisely half a US fluid ounce.

The US tablespoon is therefore 14.7868 milliliters, equal to three US teaspoons, and sixteen of them make a US customary cup. It is often treated as 15 mL, and American nutrition labels define a tablespoon as exactly 15 mL, so the two figures sit within about 1.4 percent of each other. The regional difference that matters is Australia, which uses a larger 20 milliliter tablespoon, so a recipe asking for a tablespoon of oil or baking powder can go wrong when translated across the Pacific.

1 US tablespoon = 0.01478676478 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Tablespoon; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume; 21 CFR 101.9: nutrition labeling household measures

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