Tablespoon as a unit of volume in the kitchen

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

A tablespoon is an item that will definitely be found in any kitchen (and not in one copy). For most people, it is associated with eating. But housewives who preserve vegetables for the winter or often cook pies use this item for another purpose - measuring.

If you ask: "How much sugar is in a tablespoon - 10 grams or maybe 20?" - Not everyone can answer exactly. But if you take a recipe book, then almost every housewife has the number of ingredients in most cases written in spoons. Not all, of course, this mainly concerns recipes for pickling and pickling vegetables. Naturally, there are other ways to measure liquid and bulk products (faceted glasses, scales, after all), but still, many people use spoons in the old fashioned way, and the taste of cooked dishes is none of this.drops do not suffer.

Earlier, when kitchen scales were more of a luxury (and those that were used gave an error of at least 50 grams), most products were measured just at hand. Most mothers and grandmothers still have some kind of cup with which they measure flour or sugar, and the same spoon. As for the recipes of those years, almost all the ingredients are indicated in them just not in grams, but in glasses and in spoons. Moreover, the latter option is also possible with a slide and without a slide.

But what to do if there were no exact scales at hand, but in order to bake a pie or pickle cabbage, you need to measure a certain amount of food? It turns out that a tablespoon, regardless of its shape and design, has a certain capacity according to the standard. Knowing it, it is possible, by simple arithmetic operations, to convert any number of grams into the number of these units. If a tablespoon is often used as a measuring tool for the same products, the hostess already remembers how many grams it contains and uses it without prompting.

Flour, cocoa powder, butter, sugar, vinegar, s alt - this is not a complete list of products that are often measured using various spoons. In the kitchen there are always copies of 3 volumes: tea, dessert and dining. The first 2 options are used if the ingredient needs just a drop, but the last one can be measured even more, up to a kilogram (although it doesn’t come to this, most often in this caseuse glasses).

How much a tablespoon of flour weighs in grams, not everyone will remember, but absolutely all hostesses who often bake are aware of the fact that in a standard glass there are 6 of them with a slide. After all, it is with the help of a spoon that this bulk product is most conveniently taken from the tray, bag or box where it is stored.

For most ingredients, a heaped tablespoon holds about 15 to 20 grams, and a heaped tablespoon holds one and a half times more. Naturally, products with a lower density weigh less, but the difference will not be significant (no more than 10-15%), so if accuracy is not too important, then this scale can be used. As for a teaspoon, in most cases, 5 grams of the product is placed in it (if the spoon is without a slide). Dessert holds, on average, about 10-12 grams. If you remember only 3 of these values, then it will not be difficult to convert any components from grams to the number of spoons. And then you can not bother with the scales, because measuring the required amount of the product with a spoon is much easier and more practical.