What is Half of 3/4 Cup

What is Half of 3/4 Cup? We have the answer as well as some easy tips and conversions for halving recipe ingredients.

Have you ever been in the middle of halving a recipe and realized you need to know what half of 3/4 cup is? Don’t worry, we’ve all been there!

We test a ton of dip recipes and one of our tips is to make half of the recipe and then refine it. This makes sure that nothing goes to waste.

In day-to-day cooking, we use this same strategy to cut back on portions and leftovers. My family regularly halves a recipe so we don’t have an abundance of food we may or may not eat later. Halving recipes is also great for baking when you KNOW you’ll eat an entire pan of brownies, for example— making only half of a recipe helps with temptation.

We say all this to say that it’s really common to halve a recipe, and for the most part, halving something like 1/2 cup is easy because we can do it in our head. It’s the fractions that aren’t even that get us, and 3/4 divided by two doesn’t come without some math. This kitchen conversion chart fridge magnet has saved us a ton of times!

How Much is Half of 3/4 Cup

The easiest way for us to measure half of 3/4 is to convert the measurement into tablespoons.

1 cup = 16 Tablespoons
1/2 cup = 8 Tablespoons
1/4 cup = 4 Tablespoons

Since 1/4 cup equals 4 tablespoons, we know 3/4 cup equals 12 tablespoons. Therefore, half of 3/4 cup is 6 tablespoons. This is the same as 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons.

Another way to find half of 3/4 cup is to convert it into a decimal.

3/4 cup = 0.75 cups

Half of 0.75 cups is 0.375 cups, which is fairly close to 1/3 cup (0.33 cups). If you are baking, we would not suggest using 1/3 cup as a measurement for half of 3/4 cup (baking is way too precise!), however, for dip recipes and general cooking, 1/3 cup will work just fine as a half of 3/4 cup.

Now that you know what half of 3/4 cup is, you can easily measure out the right amount for any recipe. Just remember; 3/4 of a cup equals 0.375 cups or 6 tablespoons.