How often do home cookers come across with an accurate measure of weight when cooking this or that dish. Cooking books and other recipes from various sources always give a clear weight recommendation, but it is not always easy to figure out how to measure the exact amount, especially if you do not have a measuring cup or weights on hand. In this article we will pay attention to this issue.
How to measure the number of products?
Not every housewife will find special scales in the kitchen that show the exact amount of the ingredient. However, do not be upset - with the help of spoons you can calculate grams or milliliters of the product with a minimum error. As you know, there are tea, coffee, dessert and table spoons. Dessert and coffee, as a rule, rarely make measurements. Coffee spoon from the tea differs only in smaller sizes. When describing the recipe mainly used teaspoons and tablespoons.
Worth saying that devices, being identical to destination, may have a different volume. Now there are a lot of manufacturers on the market who focus more on the appearance of kitchen cutlery than they comply with certain GOST, therefore in order to measure a certain weight flow, use spoons from the good old USSR better. In any case, the easiest way to measure the volume of any spoon is to fill it with water from the syringe to the brim.
In addition, the volume of a tablespoon varies in different countries. The Russian tablespoon has a volume of 14 to 20 milliliters, in the USA it is about 15, and in England it is slightly less than 14 milliliters. And another thing to keep in mind is that milliliters and grams may differ in the same cutlery. For example, a tablespoon of vegetable oil has 16 milliliters and weighs 18 grams.
Liquids
The easiest is to measure liquids. They can be divided into three groups:
- true weight (water, vinegar, wine);
- dense (honey liquid, dairy liquid products, syrup);
- mixtures of thick consistency (condensed milk, tomato paste, sour cream).
So, the weight of different liquids in milliliters (ml):
- water - 5 ml / h. l .; 18 ml / st. l .;
- vegetable oil - 5 ml / h. l .; 17 ml / st. l .;
- vinegar - 5 ml / h. l .; 18 ml / st. l .;
- milk - 5 ml / h. l .; 20 ml / st. l .;
- tomato juice - 3 ml / h. l .; 14 ml / st. l .;
- condensed milk - 12 ml / h. l .; 30 ml / st. l .;
- cream - 10 ml / h. l .; 25 ml / st. l
Bulk products
Consider examples of the weight of bulk products contained in scoops of different volume in grams (tsp / tbsp):
- salt - 10/30 g;
- sugar - 10/25 g;
- starch - 10/30 g;
- flour - 5/15 g;
- cocoa - 9/25 g;
- ground coffee - 8/20 grams;
- powdered sugar - 10/25 grams;
- semolina - 6/25 grams;
- cereals - 4/12 grams;
- buckwheat - 8/25 grams;
- rice - 8/20 grams;
- barley grits - 6/20 grams;
- pearl barley - 8/25 grams;
- millet groats - 8/25 grams;
- corn grits - 6/20 grams;
- powdered milk - 10/20 grams;
- gelatin - 5/15 grams;
- lemon acid - 8/25 grams;
- baking soda - 12/28 grams;
- breadcrumbs - 5/20 grams;
- cinnamon - 8/20 grams;
- seasoning dry - 8-10 / 20-30 grams;
- egg powder - 9/25 grams;
- Oatmeal - 6/22 grams;
- poppy - 8/18 grams.
The nuts
Very often, confectionery recipes and salads use nuts, and you need to correctly measure their number in grams. Below are some approximate dosages of nuts in crushed form (teaspoon / tablespoon):
- hazelnuts - 7/20 g;
- peanuts - 8/22 g;
- Almonds - 7/20 g;
- Pine nuts - 6/18 g;
- walnuts - 7/20 g.
If we consider whole nuts without shells, shells and membranes (teaspoon / tablespoon):
- peanuts - 8/25 g;
- pine nuts - 4/10 g;
- Almonds - 10/30 g;
- hazelnut - 10/30 g;
- walnuts - 8/25 g.
How to measure?
For proper measurements of substances, various liquids need to be poured to the very edges, and thicker products, such as jam with berries, sour cream, butter, margarine, should be poured with a small hill. This also applies to various cereals and loose. Especially it is not necessary to tamp down and shake them when measuring the dosage, as this may affect the final weight of the product.
It is precisely known that by the measure of one glass it contains 11 tablespoons of any cereal and 10 tablespoons of salt or sugar. When it is not possible to measure a large volume with a glass, use a tablespoon instead.
It is worth remembering that It is necessary to measure products only in a dry and fresh look. Agree that wet sugar will be heavier than dry, and the missing, fermented kefir is thicker than fresh. Accordingly, the weight and volume will be different from the desired. Of course, a discrepancy of several grams will not greatly affect the taste and appearance of the dish, but if you make cosmetics, medicinal extracts or syrups, then dosage accuracy will be very important.
If you do not want to buy special cutlery with dimensional risks for this purpose, then a syringe of 20 cubic centimeters will help you. Pour water into it and fill a tablespoon. It is believed that in a standard device 18 milliliters, and in a teaspoon - 5. Put these spoons in a separate place or somehow mark, and then use them when measuring.
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