Tea Brewing Calculator
Enter your cups and strength; get an exact herb weight, water volume, temperature and steeping time.
Calculator
Loose Leaf Calculator
Convert between teaspoons, tablespoons and grams for any herb — fluffy flowers to dense roots.
Volume-based measurements like teaspoons are convenient, but they vary enormously between herb types. A teaspoon of dense fennel seeds and a teaspoon of fluffy chamomile flowers weigh completely different amounts.
This calculator converts between volume and weight so your recipe measurements are always accurate.
How to use it
How to use the Loose Leaf Calculator
Choose your herb type, enter the measurement you have (teaspoons, tablespoons or grams), and the calculator converts it to all the other units instantly.
- Select your herb category — flower, leaf, seed, root or bark.
- Enter the quantity in teaspoons, tablespoons or grams.
- Read the instant conversion to all other units.
- Use the result in your recipe or brewing setup.
Once you have your weight, you can plug it into the Tea Brewing Calculator for a full brewing recipe. For a comparison of loose leaf and bagged formats, our Loose Leaf vs Tea Bags guide covers quality, value and convenience.
The tool also covers common blend ratios. If your recipe calls for parts rather than exact weights — one part chamomile to half a part lavender, for example — the calculator converts those proportions into grams for a given serving size. This makes scaling a blend recipe to any batch size straightforward and exact.
Questions & answers
FAQs — Loose Leaf Calculator
Teaspoon volume is fixed but herb density varies dramatically. Chamomile flowers might be 0.3 g per teaspoon while ground ginger might be 2.5 g per teaspoon. Gram measurements remove that ambiguity entirely.
Choose the closest category — "leaf" for most leafy herbs, "flower" for any dried blossom, "seed" for seeds or small fruits, and "root" for roots and barks. The conversion will be a reasonable approximation.
The calculator is calibrated for dried herbs. Fresh herbs hold far more water and are significantly lighter per teaspoon. As a general rule, use two to three times the volume of fresh herb compared to dried.
For everyday brewing, a gram or two either way makes little perceptible difference. Precision matters most when you're building blend recipes you want to be exactly repeatable.