In culinary recipes, the exact amount of ingredients is most often indicated in grams. It is known that different substances occupy different volumes at the same weight, so you should not rely on the exact ratio of grams to milliliters.

It is quite possible to measure 100 grams of the most demanded substances without an accurate kitchen scale. To do this, you should use the generally accepted measuring norms, which take into account the ratio of the weight and volume of a particular ingredient.

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Cereals

You can measure 100 grams of the most popular cereals using a glass (standard, which holds 250 ml of water) or a tablespoon (18 ml), respectively. When measuring the volume, the fullness of the glass to the brim and the spoon without a slide are taken into account:

• Buckwheat - 210 grams in a glass and 25 grams in a tablespoon;
• Oatmeal - 90 gr. in a glass and 12 gr. in a tablespoon;
• Rice - 230 gr. in a glass and 25 in a tablespoon;
• Semolina 200 gr. in a glass and 25 gr. in a tablespoon. Due to its flowability, semolina can be measured with a teaspoon (5 ml of water): it will fit 8 grams of cereal;
• Pearl barley - 230 gr. in a glass and 25 gr. in a tablespoon;
• Millet - 220 gr. in a glass and 20 gr. in a tablespoon;
• Barley or corn grits - 180 gr. in a glass and 20 gr. in a tablespoon.

Bulk products

The weight of loose small products can be measured with a 250 ml glass. and a tablespoon. The weight in a glass and a tablespoon will be as follows:

• Wheat flour 160 gr. in a glass and 25 gr. in a tablespoon;
• Potato flour 200 gr. in a glass and 30 gr. in a tablespoon;
• Ground crackers 130 gr. in a glass and 20 gr. in a tablespoon;
• Granulated sugar 200 gr. in a glass and 20 gr. in a tablespoon;
• Salt 290 gr. in a glass and 25 gr. in a tablespoon.

Dairy products and fats

Dairy products and fats can also be measured without scales at 250 ml. a glass and a tablespoon:

• Vegetable oil 245 gr. in a glass and 20 gr. in a tablespoon;
• Milk 250 gr. in a glass and 20 gr. in a tablespoon;
• Condensed milk 210 gr. in a glass 30 gr. in a tablespoon;
• Sour cream 250 gr. 25 gr.

Other ingredients

I use a 250 ml glass. and a tablespoon can measure the following foods:

• Tomato paste (puree) 220 gr. in a glass and 25 gr. in a tablespoon;
• Beans 220 grams per glass;
• Split peas 230 grams per glass;
• Lentils 210 grams per glass;
• Crushed nuts 140 gr. in a glass and 10 gr. in a tablespoon;
• Starch 160 gr. in a glass and 12 gr. in a tablespoon;
• Honey 415 gr. in a glass and 30 gr. a tablespoon;
• Vinegar 250 gr. in a glass 15 gr. in a tablespoon;

Foods that are added in small quantities are more often measured in tablespoons and teaspoons, respectively:

• Baking soda 28 gr. in a tablespoon and 12 gr. in a teaspoon;
• Cocoa powder 15g. in a tablespoon and 5 gr. in a teaspoon;
• Citric acid 25 gr. in a tablespoon and 8 gr. in a teaspoon;
• Ground coffee 20 gr. in a tablespoon and 7 gr. in a teaspoon;
• Gelatin 15 gr. in a tablespoon and 5 gr. in a teaspoon.

By combining different measuring containers, you can quite accurately measure the required amount of a product. It is worth remembering that with high humidity, dry foods (salt, rice, flour, etc.) tend to be saturated with moisture, and in this case, their weight will differ from the examples given.

Often, for the preparation of one or another dish, you need to observe strict proportions of ingredients, this only applies to baking. One has only to add a little or not enough flour - and the result is much more far from what was expected. However, even if you do not have a kitchen scale, it is allowed to measure flour with the help of improvised means.

You will need

• Wheat flour;
• faceted glass;
• tablespoon;
• tea spoon;
• measuring cup.

Instructions

1. It is more comfortable for everyone to determine the weight of flour using an ordinary faceted glass, the one that many have kept since Soviet times. Filled to the brim, it holds approximately 160 g of premium wheat flour. If you fill a faceted glass to the top notch (at this mark its volume is 200 ml), then there will be about 130 grams of flour in the glass.

2. If you do not have a glass of the required volume, measure the flour with a tablespoon. This process will take a lot of time, but it will probably be even more correct. A standard tablespoon (the length of the scooping container is 7 cm), filled with a "slide", holds 15 g of flour, without a "slide" - 10 g. As usual, if the recipe suggests measuring flour with tablespoons, it means just the volume with a "chunk", unless otherwise specified. It is allowed to determine the weight of flour and a five-centimeter spoon. In this case, without a "slide" in a spoon will fit 7 g, and with a "slide" - 12 g.

3. Occasionally it is required to measure out a very small amount of flour - 5, 10, 15 g. In this case, it is comfortable to use a teaspoon. Having filled it to the brim, you will get 4 grams of flour, and if you also leave the "slide" - then 5 g.

4. It often happens that there is no ordinary glass, but there is a transparent container with divisions for determining the volume. Let's say it can be a glass from a multicooker or a bread machine. In this case, you can weigh the flour based on the fact that 100 ml of flour contains about 65 grams. This method is inconvenient in that you can easily miss the divisions applied to the glass. For example, it is easy to calculate that 100 g of flour is approximately equal to 153 ml, but it is unlikely that you will be able to find a container with such a mark. Thus, this method is unsatisfactorily accurate.

5. And, finally, the most unreliable, but impetuous method. All you need is flour in the packaging in which it was sold and an excellent eye gauge. Let's say you have a kilogram pack of flour, and according to the recipe you need to measure 500 g. It is not hard to guess that you need to empty out half of the package. However, in order to avoid misunderstandings, use the method of weighing "by eye" only in extreme cases, when, on the contrary, either the proportions are not so significant.

The perfect option is to have electronic scales at home. If they are not there, then in order to take the required amount of flour, you need to know how much flour in grams fits in a faceted glass.

You will need

• Faceted glass
• Table spoon
• Tea spoon

Instructions

1. Take a faceted glass and scoop up the flour with a slide, then remove the slide with a knife evenly. You will have 145-155 grams in a glass.

2. If you need a smaller amount of flour, then it is allowed to scoop it up with a heap of a tablespoon, it will fit 17-19 grams. And finally, about 8 grams of flour is placed in a heaped teaspoon.

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It is also allowed to buy a measuring cup, a hefty comfortable thing in the kitchen, it has a graduation both in milliliters and in grams for all basic bulk products.

Many housewives periodically encounter a situation when they do everything exactly according to the recipe, but the baking does not work out. The dough turns out to be too thick or too liquid, as a result of which the product is not baked and goes straight from the oven to the trash can. The hostess is perplexed, she took as much flour as was required for the tea. An acceptable reason for failure may be the fact that the amount of flour in the recipe has been abnormally measured.

You will need

• - Flour
• - Measuring containers
• - Sieve

Instructions

1. Flour is a free-flowing product, the properties of which vary from grade to grade. And even the same variety, produced in different regions, may have different moisture content. It is therefore in the recipes that the consistency of the dough is indicated, which must be guided by when mixing the ingredients.

2. But, nevertheless, it is the errors in measuring the required amount of flour that play an inevitable role in the manufacture of baked goods. The most common quantities found in recipes are grams, spoons, cups and glasses. Always observe each recipe carefully before starting work. For example, when sifting the flour increases much in volume, consequently one glass of caked flour and one glass of sifted flour will weigh differently.

3. Flour containers have a certain volume. One cup contains 240 ml, 1 teaspoon - 5 ml, 1 tablespoon - 15 ml and 1 glass - 200 ml. If the recipe measures flour into cups, fill the cup with flour, but do not tamp it. Run your knife over the cup to remove the flour slide. The slide in cups and glasses must always be removed if the recipe does not say anything on this topic separately.

4. 1 cup of wheat flour of the first standard moisture contains 140 gr. And 1 cup of premium flour will contain each 120 g of the product. A faceted glass filled to the rim will contain 120 and 110 grams of flour, respectively.

5. Measuring flour spoon, scoop the product out of the bag and tap lightly on the spoon to shake off large peaks. You should be left with a neat little slice of about the size of a spoon. As a result, in a teaspoon you will have 8 grams of flour, in a dining room about 18-20 grams.

6. If you measured positively flour, strictly followed the recipe, you should succeed, and you will be able to gloriously put fresh pastries on the dining table.

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If you do not have a sieve, it is allowed to sift the flour through a regular colander.

Instructions

1. Mass (weight) is the product of the density of a substance by its volume. The density of some substances is given in the table http://physikazadachi.narod.ru/images/tabplotn.JPG.

2. Estimate by eye how much volume your object occupies. Express the volume in cubic meters. Let's say a tablespoon holds 0.000025 cubic meters, a glass - 0.00025 cubic meters, a liter can - 0.001 cubic meters, a bucket - from 0.007 to 0.01 cubic meters. m depending on its size. Well, a cubic container with a side of 1 meter has a volume, respectively, 1 cubic meter.

3. Multiply the density value of your substance, recognizing it from the table, by the volume in cubic meters, and you get the weight in kilograms. Let's say a glass of honey weighs 1350 kg / m3 * 0.00025 m3 = 0.3375 kg, which is equal to 337.5 grams.

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If the density of the substance is close to the density of water, then it is permissible to assume that a tablespoon will hold 25 g, a glass - 250 g, a liter - 1 kg, a bucket - 7 kg.

Not every housewife has a scale in her kitchen. Products are often measured by eye. But in some culinary recipes, it is important to correctly observe the proportions. A confectionery masterpiece can be hopelessly spoiled if there is too much or too little flour. How to avoid mistakes and weigh correctly flour without scales? Here are some tips from experienced chefs.

Instructions

1. As scales it is allowed to use traditional kitchen utensils: spoons, jars, glasses, pots. However, you should be aware of the difference between the volume and weight of products. Weighing without scales it will become much easier if you use a special measuring cup, on the sides of which there are marks with the designation of the weight of different products.

2. Weighing with spoons. Scoop up flour spoon (tablespoon or teaspoon). Discreetly amaze that excess flour crumbled. A neat "hill" is obtained on the spoon. A teaspoon with a "slide" holds 10 g of flour, in a dining room - 25 g.

3. Weighing in glasses. It is more excellent to use an ordinary faceted glass with a rim of 250 ml. Flour must be poured into a glass with spoons. You should not shake it and tamp it, this may change the weight. A glass filled to the rim holds 160 g of flour. If you pour flour flush with the edge, then the weight will increase to 180 g. A 200 ml glass fits a little less flour - about 130 g.

4. Weighing with pans. This proven method will help out a hostess who does not have time to measure a huge amount of flour with spoons or glasses. You need to take two saucepans of different sizes. An indispensable condition: a tiny saucepan must completely fit into a large one. A smaller container holds a product whose weight is correct. It is optimal to use a sealed kilogram package of sugar or cereals. Then the pan with the load is placed in empty. Water is neatly poured into a huge bowl to the very brim. Now it is possible to take out the load from a tiny saucepan and slowly fill it with flour. As soon as the water in the large bowl rises to the brim again, a kilogram of flour is weighed.

Note!
The flour does not need to be sieved before weighing.

Often in culinary recipes, you need to take 100 grams of some product, but few people have a kitchen scale in order to make the necessary measurements. For this reason, housewives are careful not to use such recipes for cooking. But in order to prepare the dish you like, it is not at all rigorous to weigh all the ingredients with the support of the scales. The weight of many food products can be found out using different containers that can be found throughout the house.

You will need

• faceted glass
• tablespoon
• liter jar
• measuring cup

Instructions

1. In order to measure 100 grams of milk or water for cooking any dish, take an ordinary faceted glass and fill it with liquid, not topping it up a little to half. For more accurate weight control, pour in 5 and a half tablespoons of water and 5 tablespoons of milk.

2. If you fill 2/3 of a faceted glass with flour or ground nuts, then its weight of these products will be approximately 100 grams. You can get more accurate weight by taking 10 tablespoons of flour and 10 tablespoons of chopped nuts.

3. Pour in half an ordinary glass of semolina or powdered sugar, you will receive 100 grams of this ingredient.

4. To take 100 grams of sugar, rice or salt, fill the glass a little larger than half.

5. An apple, potato, onion, carrot or medium-sized tomato weighs approximately 100 grams. To purchase 100 grams of eggplant or zucchini, cut a medium-sized fruit in half.

6. For 100 grams of eggs, use two medium sized eggs.

7. To determine 100 grams of strawberries or raspberries, fill a liter jar with these berries to a fifth of the volume. Blueberries, currants or cranberries will weigh the same if they fill about 6 of the jar.

8. A special measuring cup will also help you find out the weight of the food. Usually such a cup is made of transparent plastic and on its walls contains scales for measuring various liquids, cereals, sugar, salt. The entire line is signed by the type of product and has numerical designations for this particular ingredient.

9. In order to measure the weight in grams with the help of this cup, place inside it the required amount of cereal, salt, sugar, milk, water, etc. After that, find a scale for measuring the weight of this particular product and, correlating the divisions on the walls of the cup with the tier of filling the container, find out how much you need to fill the cup in order to get 100 grams of the ingredient.

Flour is the basis for preparing a wide variety of dishes. The cooking recipe requires the exact weight of the ingredients, from the fact that the excesses or shortcomings of one or another product can irrevocably spoil the meal. Measure out flour at home it is allowed in several ways.

You will need

• - kitchen scales;
• - beaker;
• - a tablespoon;
• - faceted glass.

Instructions

1. The fastest and most reliable way to measure mass is weighing with the help of a kitchen scale. They can be mechanical or electronic. The final version is more accurate and allows you to determine the weight of the product up to 0.1 grams. Since flour leaves white traces later, it must be weighed in a plastic bag, or in a container, without forgetting to subtract its mass from the total weight.

2. Another famous method for measuring bulk solids is the use of special measuring cups. They are transparent containers marked with the weight of different products. Should not be sieved flour before you determine its mass with the support of a measuring cup or kitchen utensils. The sifted flour takes up a much larger volume and the data obtained will be inaccurate.

3. If neither a kitchen scale nor a measuring cup was at hand, it is allowed to weigh flour with the help of traditional dishes. Small lobes are comfortable to measure with spoons. To do this, scoop up flour tablespoon and shake it neatly, so that only a small "slide" remains. A standard tablespoon holds 25 g. A teaspoon holds 10 g of flour.

4. Larger quantities of flour are easier to measure with the support of the glass. Take an ordinary faceted glass and fill it with flour. It is more cool to sprinkle flour with a tablespoon, so it will not be compacted and evenly distributed over each container. A 250 ml glass filled up to the top rim holds 160 g of flour. If you pour it flush with the edges, the mass will be 180 g.

5. It is also allowed to determine the weight of a large amount of flour, applying a further method. When you need to get half a kilogram of flour, you divide "by eye" a standard 2-kilogram pack into two equal parts. And later on this, divide another part into halves. Of course, this method is fairly approximate, and it is appropriate to use it for measuring only huge portions of flour.

An old recipe from The Book of Delicious and Healthy Food, published in the middle of the last century, says: take 1/2 cup of sugar. How do you know how many grams are in a glass of sugar? There is a whole shelf of glassware in the kitchen cabinet, but what measure of volume did V.V. Pokhlebkin, when he wrote his book? A simple question that has facets and subtleties that can baffle even an experienced hostess.

How much sugar is in a glass

The controversy arises from the fact that Soviet cookbooks mention thin (tea) and faceted glasses.

If you look at the weight table, how much sugar is in both glasses, you will find the following figures:

Conflicting information about how many grams of sugar are in a faceted glass. If you pour it to the top, with a rim, you get the same amount of sugar as in a thin tea. Why is this data shared? Here you need a historical background.

The history of the faceted glass

The classic faceted glass has a smooth top rim. Once upon a time, servicemen were given 200 grams of vodka, pouring exactly to the risks. The soldering was exchanged for tobacco or sugar, poured in exactly the same way to the border, where the edges ended and the edge began. This is how the tradition has developed to count the measure of a faceted glass as 200 ml.

It has been established how many grams of sugar are in a faceted glass: up to the rim - 180, to the brim - 230. Cookbooks say that the measure "glass" means 250 ml. Following the old recipes, you need to measure the sugar, pouring it to the brim.

How much does any glass of sugar weigh?

Not every kitchen has a faceted rarity of Soviet times. Modern crockery of various shapes and capacities. It is useful to measure your favorite convenient glass so as not to waste time weighing bulk products.

There are three ways:

• measure with a graduated measuring cup (beaker);
• fill the container and weigh it on a scale;
• calculate how many tablespoons or teaspoons fit.

A tablespoon holds 25 grams of sugar, if poured in with a slide, a teaspoon holds 10 grams. The capacity of the glass will be:

You can find out how much a glass of sugar weighs using a tablespoon or teaspoon. It is helpful to take the time to measure to quickly add the right amount of product.

How to measure other bulk solids

According to the recipe, you will need to add flour, cereals and other ingredients, which are also convenient to measure with a glass.

To help housewives, a table with the weight of the most common products:

A few subtleties to consider when measuring products:

1. Sugar weight can vary depending on moisture content and crystal size. Fine-crystalline will turn out a little more, coarse less.
2. The flour should be measured before sifting, as it then becomes fluffy and fills the glass less densely.
3. Loose products must be poured in a thin stream, do not scoop up a glass directly from the bag, so that air cavities do not form inside.
4. To get a glass filled to the brim, you need to pour it "with a slide" and smooth out the excess with the tip of a knife.

Now we know how many grams of sugar or other product are in a glass beaker. In any modern kitchen, you can bake an old cookbook recipe, even if you don't have a scale or faceted glass.

When we find a new recipe for ourselves, on the Internet or a new cookbook, or maybe a friend has shared it, then first of all we pay attention to the products necessary for cooking, and especially to their proportions. Quantities dry components(bulk, solid products) are usually indicated in grams or measured in glasses, teaspoons or tablespoons. Well, everything is clear with grams. If you have a kitchen scale available, then you probably know what to do. If there are no weights, then we need to somehow translate our grams into glasses or spoons, based on how much one or another product is required. It is more convenient to measure large quantities in glasses. This is where it will help us product weights table... It will also be required for the reverse calculation, when it is more convenient for us to measure all quantities with the help of scales, and not to dirty glasses and spoons. But, it is important to remember that in recipes adapted for Russia, a glass is not meant beaker(minimum volume - 300 ml), and the usual faceted(volume up to lines - 200 ml, to the brim - 250 ml). In this case, the glass must be filled precisely to the risks at which the edges end, not necessary tamp. Volume teaspoon should be 5 ml, and dining room- 18 ml. We collect dry products with a spoon with a slide.

In foreign culinary literature, quantities are measured not in glasses, but in cups. But, this does not really change anything, since the cup is the same glass, filled to the brim - the same 250 ml. If you often come across recipes with "cups" instead of "glasses", then the following information will be useful to you.

Quantities liquid products it is indicated either in ml, or in glasses, spoons. Sometimes the value is indicated in grams. If glasses are indicated - we take a faceted glass, spoons are indicated - we use them, milliliters are indicated - we take a measuring glass, grams are indicated - we use scales, or we determine from the table how many glasses or spoons are needed. And again comes to our aid product weights table. Liquid foods should fill the spoons to the brim. We collect viscous products with a spoon with a slide.

If you don't have a faceted glass in your kitchen, use a measured one. Find the marks at 200 and 250 ml. For clarity, they can be highlighted with a bright marker. If you need a glass of flour, add it to the bright mark. Of course, if the required amount of flour is a multiple of 200 grams, then it is more convenient to use a measuring glass (scale for flour). At the same time, put flour into a glass with a spoon, and do not scoop it up. In the latter case, voids can form. It is more convenient to measure small amounts of flour with a tablespoon. A spoonful of flour is a heaping spoon. The flour should be sieved only after the required amount according to the recipe has been measured, since the sifted flour does not fit so tightly.

How to measure the right amount of product is up to you to choose. We hope that our pivot table will help you with your food preparation. For your convenience, the products in the table are sorted alphabetically. Some foods are grouped together (legumes, cereals, nuts, etc.). The table indicates how many grams the product contains a certain amount of volume.

When preparing almost any dish, we measure the amount of necessary ingredients in the usual ways for us, be it a glass, a cup or a spoon. And all would be fine, but only glasses and cups are not the same for everyone, and in many recipes the weight of the desired product in grams is indicated.

In such cases, an indispensable thing is which indicates both the number of milliliters for various kinds of liquids, and the weight in grams for dry products. Even with this useful kitchen appliance, it doesn't hurt to know the volume of the utensils most often used in food preparation.

A teaspoon contains 5 ml of water, three times more, that is, 15 ml; familiar to everyone, which is also called "Stalinist" or "Soviet", there are two types - with a smooth rim and without it. A glass with a rim is considered a tea glass, since it was in it that the train conductors carried tea around the carriage, the volume of this glass is 250 ml; the same glass, but without a rim - 200 ml.

It is important to remember that the volume of the dishes is not always equal to the weight of the food. For approximate data, a table of measures and weights of products may be useful. In grams, many dry foods weigh much less than their volume in milliliters.

The tables below provide gram volume equivalent by weight, breaking down foods into convenient subcategories.

Note: The table of measures and weights of products in grams is designed taking into account the filling of the dishes as follows:

• spoon - with a small slide;
• glass - to the brim;
• can - to the neck.

Bulk products

This type includes cereals, flour and some others. The table of bulk products offers the main methods of measurement - a spoon and a glass, dividing them into several types, according to the volume. For the convenience of preparing large portions, cans with a volume of half a liter and a liter have been added.

Always read the recipe carefully - one cup of flour does not mean 200 g of flour, even if your cup is slightly larger than 200 ml. Remember that in a "Stalinist" teapot, filled to the brim, there is only 160 g of flour.

Note: If there is no traditional at hand in your kitchen, then it can be replaced with a plastic one. A standard clear polypropylene disposable cup holds exactly 200 ml of water.

Spices and additives (ground)

Since in the preparation of most dishes, spices are needed a little, a teaspoon and a tablespoon become their main yardsticks. For convenience, a standard volume of 10 ml was added. Spoon measures of weight of food are not equivalent to volume.

The weight of most spices and additives depends on the grind and quality of the product. For example, coarsely ground coffee will weigh slightly more than finely ground coffee.

Note:

• The table of measures and weights of products in grams does not guarantee an absolutely accurate weight, since the consistency and size of many products is not always the same.
• Very often spices are measured in pinches, in one pinch about a quarter of a teaspoon.

Liquids

Liquids are almost always measured in milliliters, which makes food preparation much easier, since it is enough to know the volume of the dishes in which the food is usually measured. In the case when prescription liquids are measured in grams, their weight is as close as possible to the volume.

Solid foods

Note: The following table of measures and weights of products in grams provides approximate data. The exact weight of products depends on their size and type..

Viscous products

Consider the last variety of products.