Kitchen scales are a modern and convenient gadget for housewives. After all, some recipes require the most precise proportions, down to grams, otherwise the dish may not turn out well.

Or the housewife could have developed her ideal recipe for a dish over the years and would like to always stick to it exactly. This is especially true for confectionery and baked goods.

If the temperature regime and exact proportions are not observed, the result may not meet expectations, the cake may not be baked inside, but will burn on the bottom, and the cookies may turn out oaky.

But what to do if you really want to cook according to a certain recipe, but you don’t have scales at hand. If it is quite possible to measure 250 ml of milk, many have 250 gram glasses in the kitchen, then how to measure, say, 150 g of flour? If you have to cook according to a new recipe, it is better to look for one where the proportions are already indicated in measuring containers.

In addition to the standard cut glass, food is measured using spoons, mugs, cups, bowls and many other containers. There are also specialized measuring cups with divisions indicating the weight of the most common products and sets of measuring spoons for weighing small volumes.

But if, nevertheless, there are no scales or other measuring instruments in the kitchen, and there is no choice and you need to measure the exact weight accurately, then ingenuity, familiar kitchen containers and some knowledge about the relationship between the weight and volume of products will come to the rescue.

Measuring bulk products with a tablespoon

It's time to find out how many grams are in a tablespoon of bulk products. “Liquid” products such as milk, water, butter can be easily measured in glasses. But bulk foods can vary greatly in weight, and a cup of flour weighs significantly lighter than a cup of sugar.

And if you need to measure out a little flour, for example, for sauces or cakes, then a glass will not work. A device for measuring small weight that everyone has at home is an ordinary tablespoon. This refers to a standard spoon, its volume corresponds to the volume of 3 teaspoons.

So how do you measure exactly 150 g of flour with a spoon? There will be 15 g of flour in a tablespoon, this is already known, so 150 g of flour is 10 tablespoons. It is believed that a standard tablespoon has an average capacity of 15 g of dry product and 18 ml of liquid. But in fact, the weight of the products that fit into a tablespoon varies greatly. For comparison:

• salt - 30 g;
• sugar - 25 g;
• rice - 25 g;
• dry yeast - 12 g.

There are no exact formulas for how to measure the weight of a product; they have already been measured and recorded, and the housewife can simply remember or write down these measurements.

The product must be measured exclusively in its raw form; if 100 g of rice is indicated, then it means dry rice, not even washed.

To scoop with a slide or not?

When measuring dry and viscous products, you must pay attention to whether the spoon is heaped or whether the top is cut to a flat surface. Typically, if a recipe specifies proportions in tablespoons and does not indicate “heaped” or “without heap,” the default is “heaped.”

How many grams are in a heaped tablespoon? It happens that the weight is indicated “without a slide” and “with a slide” separated by a slash; on average, the difference is 5 g. For example:

• flour – 10/15 g;
• gelatin 10/15 g;
• spices 10/15 g;
• rice 15/20 g;
• oat flakes 15/20.

The slide should not be very large, just scooping it up with a spoon does not need to shake it off. Interestingly, in English-language recipes, by default they mean “without a slide”. You need to know this, because some find it difficult to scoop without a slide; to do this, you need to “cut” the top with a knife.

Measures correspondence table

It is impossible to keep all these numbers in your head. And if it is not possible to weigh, then you need to measure. Therefore, it is best to save and print such a table. If it is always in the kitchen, in plain sight, then there will be no problem converting the weight of the spoon’s contents into grams. So, look in the table how many grams are in 1 tablespoon of certain products:

Name	weight in tablespoon, grams
water	18
table vinegar	20
live shivers	20
vegetable oil	17
honey	35
sour cream	22
buckwheat	22
rolled oatmeal	12
semolina	25
sago grain	20
coffee	20
soda	28
ground pepper	18
breadcrumbs	15
cocoa	20
peas	25
beans	30
gelatin powder	15
raisin	25
butter	25
condensed milk	30
milk	17
grated cheese	8
tomato paste	30
lemon acid	25
fresh berries	30
dried berries	20
crushed nuts	30

Many people probably remember such tables in their grandmothers and mothers’ kitchens. And despite the fact that today is the 21st century, they are still relevant, because it is not very convenient to look on the Internet every time with hands stained with flour or oil.

Determining the exact weight of products without scales is not so difficult

Every experienced housewife should have her own secrets and tricks. Knowing some more of them, determining the weight of any products without scales and navigating any recipes will not be so difficult.

But even apothecary precision in the quantity of products and precisely selected temperature is not a guarantee of a culinary masterpiece. There are still many factors that can play a role here, such as the quality of food, dishes and, most importantly, a good mood. It has long been noticed that when you start cooking in a bad mood, it is easy to ruin any dish.

The following video clearly demonstrates how many grams of flour are in a tablespoon.

When preparing food, sometimes you have to measure sugar by grams. Ideally, you should use scales, but in reality this is very inconvenient. Therefore, traditionally the weight of sugar is measured using spoons and glasses.

Our website already has a table with which you can approximately measure the weight of food in spoons and glasses. But the question often arises: “how to scoop into a spoon: with a slide or without", "into a glass: to the top or to the edge»?

To resolve these issues, we simply took and weighed granulated sugar in tea room And tablespoon, as well as in a standard faceted glass. For clarity, we took photographs so that both the spoon and the pile of granulated sugar could be better seen. All images are “clickable” - a mouse click opens an enlarged copy of the image.

Weight of sugar in spoons and glasses

tea room with slide

Tea spoon sugar " with a slide» weighs 8-9 gram.

Sugar should be collected carefully to get the largest possible pile.

10 g.

Tablespoon sugar " with a slide» weighs 22-24 grams.

To get a spoonful of sugar like this, you need to scoop it deep into the sugar bowl and carefully remove the spoon so as to get the largest possible pile.

* Weight tables show the following values: 25 g.

Tablespoon sugar " with a mound» weighs 13-14 gram.

To get this weight, you need to scoop up the sugar and shake off the excess sugar so that this spoon can be comfortably carried across the table at arm's length or from room to room without spilling a crumb.

Full faceted glass sugar, filled to the brim, weighs 200 gram.

Granulated sugar should be collected level with the top edge of the glass: without a mound. To remove it, you can hold it over the glass with a knife or the handle of a tablespoon.

* Weight tables show the following values: 200 g.

Faceted glass sugar, filled evenly to the edge, weighs 160 gram.

This weight of sugar can be gained by scooping up 7 heaping tablespoons.

* Weight tables show the following values: 160 g.

You can roughly measure any amount of sugar in a measuring cup. To do this, the required weight in grams is multiplied by 1,25 — the result is the required volume of sugar in milliliters. If, on the contrary, you need to convert sugar from milliliters to grams, then you need to multiply the volume by 0.8. We have summarized some correspondences between volume and weight in a table:

* The article indicates the net weight of granulated sugar placed in a glass or spoon.

Results

Collect sugar in tea room or tablespoon follows with maximum slide, then its weight will correspond to the table (10 and 25 g). But our measurements showed that in reality, a teaspoon holds 1–2 grams less, and a tablespoon holds 2–3 g less. For most recipes, this difference is not important, but for a person it is only beneficial. Firstly, with numbers of 10 and 25 g it is much more convenient to count. Secondly, this way you will add and eat a little less sugar, and this will undoubtedly result in benefits for your health.

IN faceted glass need to gain sugar without a pot, flush with the rim or edge of the glass.

To accurately determine how many grams are in a tablespoon of bulk, solid, or liquid food ingredients, you should have on hand a special table that indicates the weight values ​​of the most popular products that are most often used in cooking.

To prepare tasty and healthy dishes, you need not only to use high-quality products, but also to accurately observe the ratio of ingredients. But not every home kitchen has special scales. It is faster and easier to use ordinary tableware, such as a tablespoon, as measuring utensils.

All recipes that are published in cookbooks or on websites dedicated to cooking contain information about the weight ratio of the ingredients used. Different foods can be quickly measured with ordinary tablespoons or teaspoons, knowing how much of a particular food product such a cutlery can hold.

Such a useful reminder should hang in every housewife’s kitchen, helping her quickly measure the exact amount of certain products. This will speed up the preparation of breakfasts, lunches and dinners and improve their taste. Knowing exactly how much a particular type of food weighs in a tablespoon, even a novice cook will never make a mistake in dosage.

Different products have different densities and different filling levels, which is reflected in their weight. A tablespoon has long been a universal measure for determining weight volume, which is not inferior to scales in measurement accuracy. All bulk ingredients are calculated taking into account the natural slide that accumulates when the spoon is normally filled.

Table of weight ratio for a tablespoon

Products name	Weight with mound in g	Weight without top in g
Wheat flour	30	20
Sugar	25	20
Powdered sugar	28	22
Extra salt	28	22
Rock salt	30	25
Baking soda	28	22
Dry yeast	11	8
Cocoa	25	20
Ground coffee	20	15
Cinnamon powder	20	15
Crystalline citric acid	16	12
Rice	18	15
Honey	30	25
Granulated gelatin	15	10
Water	13	—
Table vinegar	13	—
Whole milk	13	—
Vegetable oil	12	—
Melted margarine	12	—

Interesting! Based on this measure of the volume of different products, you can quickly weigh the required amount of ingredients for preparing a recipe dish. Precise adherence to proportions always has a positive effect on the taste and nutritional quality of any dish.

How many grams are in one tablespoon

A tablespoon will help not only young, but also experienced housewives to weigh. How many grams or ml it holds depends not on the volume of the tablespoon, which remains the same even with its different forms, but on the type of bulk or liquid products.

They can have different grain sizes and densities, which affects their “fitting” in a tablespoon. Some food components, such as wheat flour or powdered sugar, are very finely ground, so more of them can fit in a spoon. However, the density of such products is not very high, so they will have little weight in such a measuring device.

Liquid foods also have different densities and viscosities, which affects their weight when using a cutlery as a measuring tool. The housewife just needs to know about this and take with her a summary measuring chart using a tablespoon as a measure of weight for different food ingredients, including the most popular products or those that are often used for preparing homemade lunches and dinners.

Without flour, it is impossible to prepare baked goods that require a large amount of this bulk product. In this case, you can use a special measuring cup or cup as a measuring container.

A tablespoon will help you measure a small amount of flour when you need to cook:

• sauce;


• breading for cutlets or cheesecakes;


• cream soup;


• custard or other dish to which flour is added to thicken.

important! To quickly prepare such dishes and obtain the desired degree of viscosity, you need to know exactly how many grams fit in a spoon without a large slide. The volume of flour or potato starch in a tablespoon will be 25-30 g. Using such a dispenser, available in every kitchen, will help you accurately and quickly measure the flour in the right amount.

Semolina

Healthy and tasty semolina porridge can be cooked correctly only if you maintain the exact ratio of milk and semolina. While liquid can be measured using a glass, it is not always possible to accurately determine the amount of semolina. Semolina swells greatly in hot milk, and if there is an error in the ratio of ingredients, the porridge turns out to be too thick and not tasty.

If you know how many grams of semolina fits in a tablespoon, you can always prepare a tasty and satisfying breakfast. It’s enough to remember that one tablespoon of semolina contains 20-25 g.

If you use butter by weight, then preparing dishes using it will be significantly simplified if you know that in solid form a tablespoon holds 20 g, and in melted form - 17. Knowing how many grams of butter are in a tablespoon, you can quickly calculate it weight for a specific dish.

Sunflower oil

When weighing vegetable oil in this way, remember that it must be without sediment, otherwise its weight will increase and the ratio of ingredients will be disrupted. You also need to remember that when cooled, its weight decreases, so you should weigh such a product only when it reaches room temperature.

Interesting! If the recipe specifies ml, then you can make a calculation by calculating the ratio of the number of spoons to a faceted glass. A tablespoon holds 12 g of oily product.

Sugar

This product is used as often as salt. Sugar is placed in baked goods, and is also added in small quantities to add piquancy and emphasize the brightness of taste in various dishes:

• salads;


• gas stations;


• fills;


• pickles and preparations;


• second courses;


• fruit drinks and other drinks.

A table from a cookbook or thematic Internet resources will help you always remember how many grams of sugar are in a tablespoon. It should be remembered that sugar absorbs water well and increases its density, which leads to a decrease in its volume for the same weight.

Salt

Almost all dishes have to be salted during the cooking process. The exact ratio of salt to the volume of the dish will allow you to create a bright flavor range, avoiding under-salting and over-salting of food. When weighing such a product, remember that it has a heavy specific gravity.

One tablespoon in dry form contains 25-30 g. The weight of salt may vary depending on the grinding, which is of the 1st or 2nd type. If the spoon scoops it up with a large heap, then the weight of the salt then reaches 30-35 g.

Honey

Unlike other viscous products, honey is heavy. In a tablespoon, its weight is 40 g. To accurately determine the weight, the candied honey should be melted in a water bath. This will simplify the calculation of its weight when preparing confectionery and other dishes that require its use.

Interesting! Honey is one of the few products that is always measured only with spoons, since when weighed on scales it remains on the walls of the dishes that are placed on the weighing platform.

Vinegar

Vinegar is used in sauces and salad dressings, in the preparation of marinades and canned vegetables, and also for slaking soda when preparing dough. One tablespoon contains 10 g. When taking measurements, you need to pay attention to the concentration of this product, which can range from 6 to 9%.

Other products

Measuring the weight of ingredients when cooking with a tablespoon will allow beginners and experienced housewives to create not only tasty, but also healthy dishes. You can also measure other products using such cutlery, knowing what is included in it:

• cocoa - 30 g;


• gelatin in granules - 15 g;


• water - 12 g;


• rice - 17 g;


• dried yeast - 11 g;


• medium ground coffee - 20 g;


• cow's milk - 13 g;


• cinnamon powder - 20 g;


• ground nuts - 12 g;


• dry herbs, tea - 6 g;


• raw grass - 10 g.

Housewives can create their own table of the volume of various food ingredients using the ratio of glasses and spoons, writing how many of the latter fit in a glass. Knowing the volume of a large glass container and the number of spoons included in it, you can accurately calculate the ratio of certain food components of a particular recipe.

Secrets of weighing food without scales

It will be easier to prepare delicious food without using a kitchen scale if you know the average weight of a number of foods. The indicators are as follows:

• small chicken egg - 50-55 g;


• yolk - 15 g;


• protein - 35 g;


• regular chicken egg - 55-65 g;


• large chicken egg - 65-70 g;


• medium potato tuber - 150-200 g;


• medium onion - 150 g;


• small garlic clove - 5 g.

advice! All this useful information can be beautifully designed and hung in your kitchen for easy use during cooking.

Conclusion

When using cutlery to calculate the weight of ingredients specified in a recipe, it is worth considering that the volume of glasses and spoons may vary slightly depending on their shape and size, so they can hold different amounts of food. If you need to make accurate calculations, you can purchase culinary measuring cups and scales in specialized stores.

When preparing certain dishes, every housewife from time to time is faced with a situation where she needs to measure the weight of ingredients with an accuracy of up to a gram. In addition, most recipes offer very ambiguous wording of the contents of the products, such as “a pinch of soda”, “not a full glass of flour” or “citric acid on the tip of a knife”. But few people know the exact weight of these components. For example, how much salt is in a teaspoon? 99% of housewives will not be able to answer such a simple question. What if the spoon is heaped, and what if, for example, you use large crystals? Plus, keep in mind that every kitchen has different utensils, so the task of calculating the exact weight becomes more and more difficult. But let's figure it out: how much salt is in a teaspoon, if it is “heaped”, without a heap, if the salt is coarse or finely ground, etc. Why is this important to know? Because we use this component every day, and if you add more salt to your food than necessary, you risk irreversibly spoiling it. Few people can eat over-salted soup or main course.

We answer the question: “How much salt is in a teaspoon?”

Remember - the named container contains 7 grams of white crystals, and already filled, i.e. “heaped” - 10 grams, but if the salt is large, then its weight in a teaspoon will be only 5 grams. Also keep in mind that when writing recipes, the author usually means that you take the ingredient “heaping”, otherwise they write something like “less than a teaspoon of salt.”

It’s so simple, but this data will help you put the right amount of ingredient, because what could be worse for any housewife than a highly salted stew or borscht, the taste of which is almost impossible to correct? Note that many baking recipes also call for about 1 teaspoon of salt (this helps improve the flavor and quality of the dough). Now you won’t be confused if in a cookbook they mentioned, for example, the weight of the product instead of writing “add 10 grams of salt.” You already know how much it is, so you will never spoil delicious baked goods again.

How many grams of salt does one tablespoon contain?

So, we found out how much salt weighs. How many grams can a dining room hold - see below. A regular device 7 cm long and 4 cm wide is 25 grams of salt, and a “heaped” one is 30. Keep in mind that the larger one weighs more, and therefore there will be only 20 grams in one tablespoon. Having made simple mathematical calculations, it can be noted that 1 tablespoon of ordinary crystals contains 3 teaspoons of the mentioned product, that is, if you only have tea utensils at hand, then feel free instead of 1 tbsp. l. add salt 3 tsp. - the weight of the ingredient will be the same. We hope that this article was useful to you, and you remembered once and for all how much salt is in a teaspoon and how much is in a tablespoon. For convenience, we provide a table. You can print it out and hang it in the kitchen so that the information is always at hand. Then you will no longer be able to spoil the dishes.

Most recipes are divided into two categories: in the first, the number of ingredients and their volume are indicated in tablespoons or teaspoons, pieces or glasses; in the second, the weight is indicated in grams. Determining 10-15 g of salt “by eye” is quite difficult if there are no scales in the kitchen.

Our mothers and grandmothers knew how much salt there was in a teaspoon, perfectly calculating the amount of spice needed without instruments.

Different types of salt in a teaspoon: how many grams?

If the excess of other products in the prepared dish can be neutralized in one way or another, then an “excessive” amount of the popular spice can ruin it completely. How to correctly calculate the required volume of a substance? It is necessary to take into account how many grams of salt are in a teaspoon in order for the result to be accurate.

But the spice used every day can be different: “extra” (powdered salt), the grinding of which is akin to baking soda, stone, coarse and finely ground cooking, sea, black, dietary and even pink Himalayan. Different crystal sizes due to grinding can affect the calculation results. How much salt does a heaping teaspoon contain? For example, a large fraction of sea salt in the named container will weigh only 5 g, while “extra” will weigh 10 g.

Different grind

As a rule, the default recipes call for cutlery filled to the top (“heaped”) with bulk materials.

The choice of the main ingredient for the next culinary masterpiece is accompanied not by concern for health, but by the purpose for which it is intended. Fine salt is added to prepared foods (salads or snacks), as it dissolves quickly; Medium salt is used to salt meat or meat products using a dry method, as well as bake or smoke fish with it, pickle or preserve vegetables; large ones are used for cooking soups, cereals, meat, for stewing foods, for canning vegetables and salting fish.

Table for the kitchen to know exactly how many grams of salt are in 1 teaspoon

Experienced housewives usually use familiar brands of spices they use every day. Therefore, they already know exactly how much salt is in a teaspoon. For convenience, you can also print the table and hang it in a visible place in the kitchen.

For canning

Iodized salt is not suitable for pickling cucumbers and canning vegetables. An additional artificial element - iodine - makes the gifts of nature soft and worsens their taste.

When canning vegetables, it is better to use coarse or medium-sized rock or table salt without additives. Any elements included in a spice for the benefit of the body can destroy the entire preservation. The salt fraction does not play a special role, since the substance will still dissolve in the brine. But knowing from the table how many grams of salt are in a teaspoon of each type will be very useful to you.

If a recipe calls for 50 grams of salt, how many teaspoons of the product are needed? It is known that a level teaspoon contains 7 grams, 50g/7g = 7 teaspoons + a pinch. And there are 10 grams in a heaped teaspoon, so 50g/10g = 5 heaped teaspoons. Fish is usually salted dry, by rubbing the carcass, since it needs a lot of salt - at least three teaspoons per 1 kg of fish. Knowing how much salt is in a teaspoon, it is easy to calculate the number of grams of the substance for drying fish. For meat baked in foil, one teaspoon of the usual spice per kilogram of product is enough, for a steak on the grill - the same amount, and for cutlets - 0.5 tsp. salt per 1 kilogram of minced meat. This popular ingredient is even added to sweet baked goods to highlight its taste and create an airy dough structure. True, they salt it in pinches: yeast - two, biscuit - one. Oil-based puff pastry often contains 0.5 teaspoons of white crystals per 1 kg of product.

In conclusion…

Cooking is considered to be not so much a “high” art as an exact science. Strict adherence to the recipe guarantees excellent taste and appetizing appearance of the dishes. Knowing how much salt is in 1 teaspoon, it is difficult to make a mistake and spoil a culinary masterpiece. Cooking gurus claimed that the success of dishes is 50% related to the quality of the products, 20% to the recipe itself, the rest depends on the talent of the cook and accurate calculation of quantities ingredients!