White Rice (uncooked): Cups to Grams

1 US cup of white rice (uncooked) weighs about 185 grams.

Three quarters of a US cup of white rice (uncooked) is about 138.8 grams (12 tablespoons).

2/3 of a US cup of white rice (uncooked) is about 123.3 grams.

Half a US cup of white rice (uncooked) is about 92.5 grams — half of the 185 g in a full cup.

A third of a US cup of white rice (uncooked) is about 61.7 grams.

A quarter US cup of white rice (uncooked) is about 46.3 grams (4 tablespoons).

1 tablespoon of white rice (uncooked) is about 11.6 grams (a cup is 16 tablespoons).

1 1/4 US cups of white rice (uncooked) weigh about 231.3 grams.

1 1/2 US cups of white rice (uncooked) weigh about 277.5 grams — one full cup (185 g) plus half a cup (92.5 g).

2 US cups of white rice (uncooked) weigh about 370 grams.

100 grams of white rice (uncooked) is about 0.54 cups.

250 grams of white rice (uncooked) is about 1.35 cups (at 185 g per cup).

500 grams of white rice (uncooked) is about 2.7 cups.

About 92.5 grams of uncooked long-grain white rice — half of the 185 g in a full US cup (USDA). Grain length shifts it a little: half a cup of medium-grain rice is about 97.5 g and short-grain or sushi rice about 100 g, while brown long-grain rice matches white at 92.5 g. Using a 250 mL metric cup (UK, Australia, New Zealand)? Half of one holds about 98 g.

About 0.54 cups of uncooked long-grain white rice — a half cup plus roughly 1 tablespoon. For other kinds: 100 g of medium-grain rice is about 0.51 cups, short-grain or sushi rice about 0.5 cups, brown medium-grain about 0.53 cups, and dry instant rice about 1.05 cups (it is by far the lightest per cup). All of these are uncooked weights.

Yes, near enough to use one chart. Both are long-grain varieties, and USDA measures rice by grain length rather than variety name: long-grain white rice is 185 g per US cup, so basmati and jasmine both land at about 185 g (brand labels using a 1/4-cup serving mostly print 45–50 g, which works out to 180–200 g per cup). Risotto rices — arborio and carnaroli — are the short and medium-grain end, closer to 195–200 g per cup.

A rice-cooker cup is 180 mL — the Japanese gō, not a US cup — so it is about 3/4 of a US cup and holds roughly 141 g of long-grain rice or 152 g of short-grain Japanese rice. That is why a "5-cup" cooker is not five US cups: rice-cooker capacities count 180 mL cups of uncooked rice. Use the cup that came with the machine, since its water lines are calibrated to it.

Before. Rinsing washes off surface starch but also leaves water clinging to and soaking into the grains — published soaking figures put the weight gain at roughly 20% once rice sits in water — so drained rice weighs unpredictably more than the recipe means. Measure or weigh dry (185 g per cup), then rinse. For the same reason, keep rinsing water out of your cooking-water measurement.

About 95 grams (USDA) — barely half the 185 g of regular uncooked rice. Instant or "minute" rice is pre-cooked and dehydrated, so its grains are puffed and full of air. Never swap it by weight with regular rice: a cup of instant rice is about the same amount of food as half a cup of regular rice, and it needs far less water and time.