We measure liquid and bulk products. 1/2 cup is how many grams and milliliters?

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

Modern housewives love to experiment and learn from the experience of more skilled craftswomen. Having decided to cook an unusual new dish according to the found recipe, you often have to measure the right amount of ingredients using improvised means, because not everyone has a kitchen scale. A glass is an indispensable assistant in this matter; any housewife in any kitchen has it. But not everyone knows how much of this or that ingredient will fit in it. In this article, we will take a closer look: 1/2 cup is how many milliliters or grams.

Dry and bulk solids

If you decide to cook pastries or dessert, you will definitely need sugar and flour. To prepare side dishes and cereals, you need to measure cereals: rice, buckwheat, semolina and oatmeal. Consider even such exotic options when we need half a glass of s alt or powdered sugar. If granulated sugar in a full faceted glass is 250 g, then in a half share - 125 g. S alt and cereals, such as buckwheat and rice, are measured in the same way.

Flour weighs lighter, then 1/2 cup ishow many? We answer: 90 grams, since there are only 180 g in a whole glass. The sifted flour will weigh 75 g. Powdered sugar is more weightless, so half of the contents will be only 60 g. For example, nuts crushed into crumbs with a volume of half a glass weigh 50 g, and pounded to flour - 40 g.

Liquids

1/2 cup is how many milliliters? If you take a faceted glass with a rim along the upper border, then it holds 250 ml to the brim. Accordingly, half of this is 125 ml. When making an error or filling the container not to the rim, it is taken into account that 1/2 cup of water is 120 ml. And in the event that a faceted vessel does not have a rim, its volume is only 200 ml, in proportion to this, half will be 100 ml. All liquids used in cooking and cooking have a similar density, so milk and dairy products, vegetable oil are measured as plain water.

Unconventional uses

With the help of a glass, you can measure out those products that we usually do not put in it. For example, butter, which occupies half of the container, weighs 120 g. What does 1/2 cup of honey, jam, or corn syrup mean? This is as much as 160 g of a sweet and he althy product. So, in half a glass is placed:

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  115 g split peas;

• 95g raisins;
• 75g fresh strawberries;
• 35g oatmeal;
• 105g buckwheat;
• 100g semolina;
• 80g cornmeal;
• 82, 5g poppy seeds;
• 70g fresh raspberries;
• 115gmelted margarine;
• 150g condensed milk;
• 60g milk powder;
• 85g shelled hazelnuts or almonds;
• 175g berry puree;
• 60g breadcrumbs;
• 150g tomato puree;
• 30g wheat flakes;
• 90g blackcurrant;
• 6 egg yolks or 5.5 egg whites;
• 3 eggs without shell.

How to determine the fullness of the glass

We won't argue whether the glass is half full or half empty. The main question is: how to determine that the product occupies exactly 50% of the total volume? If the glass is ordinary, transparent and faceted, without notches, there is only one way out - to navigate "by eye". At the same time, it must be remembered that the shape of this object is narrower from below than from above, so the middle of the volume will be above the median line of height. Whatever the shape of the glass, simple or with figured, diamond-shaped edges, its capacity is 200 ml. Recall that for a faceted container with a border, this volume is reached exactly on this line.

It's much easier to use a special measuring cup, which has divisions that measure capacity in a certain step. There are also instances that have several graduations for various products. You can make your life easier by drawing marks with a marker on one of the glasses adapted for measuring, but it is much more convenient to immediately purchase a kitchen scale. So no more frantic counting, 1/2 cup is how much.