Jiggers to Liters (jigger to L)

1 jigger equals 0.04436029434 liters (rounded).

1 jigger = 0.04436029434 liters

How to convert jiggers to liters

To convert jiggers to liters, multiply the number of jiggers by 0.04436029434. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply liters by 22.5426818 (rounded).

liters = jiggers × 0.04436029434

Example: 10 jiggers = 0.4436029434 liters.

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

Jigger (jigger)

Cooking & barTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

1.5 US fluid ounces (44.36 mL). A bar measure for spirits; sizes vary.

As a bartending term, jigger appeared in the United States in the early nineteenth century for a small measure of spirits or wine. A double-ended stainless steel jigger was patented in 1893 by Cornelius Dungan of Chicago. Wikipedia reports that before Prohibition an American jigger was about 2 US fluid ounces, or 59 mL, and that since the late twentieth century it has usually meant 1.5 US fluid ounces, about 44 mL.

Sizes differ by country and by habit. Wikipedia gives single measures of 30 to 44 mL in the United States, 30 mL in Australia, and 25 or 35 mL in the United Kingdom. No official single-shot size exists in the United States except in Utah, where a shot is legally 1.5 US fluid ounces. The figure used here is that modern American 1.5 US fluid ounces, 44.36 mL. A jigger is not part of SI or any national measures law, and NIST lists no jigger.

1 jigger = 0.04436029434 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Jigger (bartending); NIST SP 811 Appendix B.8

Liter (L)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One cubic decimeter (1,000 cm³). The everyday metric unit of volume for drinks, fuel and cooking.

The liter was born in revolutionary France. In 1795 it was introduced as a republican unit and defined as one cubic decimeter, while the gram was tied to a cubic centimeter of water. The name comes from the older French litron, itself descended from a Byzantine Greek unit of weight, not volume. A small revision of the decimeter in 1798 left the first liter about 1.000974 of today's cubic decimeter, and in 1879 the international metric authorities adopted the liter with the symbol l.

The liter then took a strange detour. In 1901 it was redefined as the space taken up by one kilogram of pure water at its densest, which made it about 1.000028 cubic decimeters, and that muddled definition lasted until 1964, when it was restored to exactly one cubic decimeter. A capital L was added as an alternative symbol in 1979 because a lowercase l is easy to mistake for the digit 1, and NIST says L is the symbol to use in the United States. A liter of water is close to a kilogram, which is why a one-liter bottle feels like a kilo in the hand.

The liter is the reference unit for volume on this site.

Sources: Wikipedia: Litre; NIST Guide to the SI, Chapter 5: units outside the SI

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