I watch a lot of American baking programs but I am British and they always say a 'stick' of butter and I was wondering how much in grams did one stick weigh.

thanks 

A stick of butter is 1/2 cup or 1/4 pound.  Don't have a conversion chart handy to do the next step but that should get you farther.

Our American butter comes in 1 lb. (16 oz = 454 g.) boxes, each containing 4 individually wrapped portions. Each "stick" is 4 oz, or 113.5 g.

I really feel silly answering this question, for I am one of those frightened to use metrics in the many UK or Australian recipes I would love to make. Fortunately for me, this info I'm reading right off the box. 

Kudos to you for what I don't dare.

Jan

Two years ago I purchased a pricey metric food scale which sits still wrapped on my shelf!

I had a year of junior high physical science, a year of high school physical science, a year of junior high chemistry, a year of high school chemistry, a semester of university chemistry, a year of high school physics, and TWO years of university physics (because of a change of major, I had to take calculus general physics after I'd already taken non-calc general physics), and a semester of university astronomy. So the Metric System is an old friend. (Incidentally, whenever you talk about volts, amperes, and watts, you're using Metric units.)

Most of my measuring cups are dual-calibrated. So is my food scale.

Working in either set of units is easy. It's converting back and forth that's the pain in the butt.

Like you, hbq, I've worked with metrics, believe it or not. I was a zoology major in college and had the physics, math, chemistry, and so on. I didn't find it difficult as long as I didn't have to make conversions between the two. The difficulty I have now, when trying to make the delicious sounding recipes some of my Aussie and German fellow CCrs share with me is my confusion between volume and weight when making conversions. I am so used to just using cups and measuring spoons. (Not to mention that Aus. measurements differ slightly from UK.) And my conversions never round out to a nice even number when using the many conversion charts I find on-line. So I can appreciate those who aren't challenged like I appear to be. The only thing I am comfortable with are 2 liter soda bottles!     Perhaps one of these days I'll unwrap my beautiful new scale and give it a try. 

Jan