Let’s break it down like a bad joke. 1 pound = 4 sticks. 3/4 pound = 3 sticks. Done. If you need 1/2 pound, that’s two sticks. If you need 1/4 pound, that’s one stick. See? It’s a butter-based pyramid scheme, but everyone wins.
But what if you only have a giant tub of butter? Then please, for the love of baking, stop buying tub butter for recipes. Tub butter has water and air whipped in, which ruins cookies like a toddler with a sledgehammer. Stick butter is pure, unsalted, and ready to betray your diet.
How Many Tablespoons Of Stick Butter Equals 3/4 Cup at Eugene Potts blog
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Here’s a hack: Most butter sticks have measuring marks on the wrapper. Look closely—they’re like tiny, buttery road maps. Each stick is usually divided into 8 tablespoons. So 3/4 pound equals 12 tablespoons. Shout that number at your friends. They’ll be impressed and slightly worried.
If you lose the wrapper (because you, like me, are a chaos gremlin), just remember: 1 stick = 1/2 cup. So 3/4 pound = 1 1/2 cups of butter. That’s enough to make about 36 cookies, or one very expensive omelet. You do you.
