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Cottage cheese: cups to grams
One US cup of cottage cheese weighs about 225 grams. Convert any amount below.
1 cup of cottage cheese=225 g
Weights are approximate — see the note on scooping below.
Cottage cheese conversion table
| Measure | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| 1 cup | 225 g | 7.9 oz |
| ¾ cup | 170 g | 6 oz |
| ⅔ cup | 150 g | 5.3 oz |
| ½ cup | 115 g | 4 oz |
| ⅓ cup | 75 g | 2.6 oz |
| ¼ cup | 56 g | 2 oz |
| 1 tbsp | 14 g | 0.5 oz |
| 1 tsp | 4.7 g | 0.17 oz |
Whose cup?
A cup is not one size. The United States measures 240 ml, the UK, Canada and New Zealand use a 250 ml metric cup, and Japan's カップ is 200 ml — so the same recipe line can mean a fifth more or less flour depending on where it was written. Australia shares the 250 ml cup but uses a 20 ml tablespoon, the only one of its size.
This page is currently showing US cups. Switch standards in the converter above and every number on the page follows.
Why weighing beats scooping
These figures describe cottage cheese measured the usual way, but a cup is a container, not a quantity. Flour packed tightly into the cup can outweigh the same cup loosely spooned by a fifth — which is the single most common reason a baked recipe comes out differently than it did last time. If you own a scale, the gram column is the one to trust.
Why a cup of flour isn't a cup of flour →
Cottage cheese in other languages
Useful when you are cooking from a recipe written somewhere else — these are the names the same ingredient goes by in the languages Gather supports.
- English cottage cheese
- German Hüttenkäse
- Spanish requesón
- French cottage cheese
- French (Quebec) fromage cottage
- Italian fiocchi di latte
- Japanese カッテージチーズ
- Portuguese (Brazil) queijo cottage
- Portuguese (Portugal) queijo cottage
What ingredients are called elsewhere →
Out of cottage cheese?
Weighing it and replacing it are different questions, and we answer both. What to use instead of cottage cheese →