Just how do people from the USA measure 1/2 a cup of butter?

Question

Thanks a bunch. What is a stick? It may surprise people in the USA, but in some countries we have different ways of measuring. Telling me to put the butter into a graduated cup doesn't help. Butter here is marked out in grams on the packet. I can cope with kilos and pounds, but it seems very complicated to have to soften the butter, pack it into a graded cup and then scrape it out again. Still puzzled.

Answer 1

One stick of butter=one quarter of a pound,or one-half cup.

Answer 2

Uh, we just let it soften and then smoosh into a measuring 1/2 cup.

But 1/2 of a cup of butter is equal to two sticks of butter.

EDIT: Sorry, everyone else is saying that 1 stick is equal to 1/2 a cup of butter, so I guess I lied.

Answer 3

Its usually marked on the side of the wrapper of stick of butter. If its in a tub you can scoop it out into a measuring cup. If you're really in a bind you could get close enough by weight. By the way its the same way you'd measure a quarter cup or 3/4 of a cup and it doesn't matter what country you're from it works the same way for everybody :)

Answer 4

I use stick butter which is 1/2 cup.

Answer 5

I think measurments are on pretty much every stick of butter. If you use butter from a large container you usually use a measuring cup. Or you can do like me and just eyeball it.

Answer 6

Two ways...

Cut on the line that says half cup

or

if soft margarine----add a quarter of a cup of water to a measuring cup. then add butter until the water raises up to the half cup line.

Answer 7

1/2 a cup is 4 oz so you can measure by wait if you don't have a cup measurer which you can buy in the UK in about any place you can buy saucepans!

Answer 8

One Stick

Answer 9

in a measuring cup, or by cutting the proper amount from a stick (8 tablespoons, or 1 stick.)

Answer 10

Buy one. Yes they actually sell half cup measures.
(not practical for butter but for other stuff it works.)