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

1 US tablespoon equals 0.02602106827 imperial pints (rounded).

1 US tablespoon = 0.02602106827 imperial pints

How to convert US tablespoons to imperial pints

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

imperial pints = US tablespoons × 0.02602106827

Example: 10 US tablespoons = 0.2602106827 imperial pints.

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

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

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

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