We decided to cook pancakes or pies, but there is nothing at hand to measure the right amount of flour? And in the recipe, as luck would have it, all the products are in grams? Not a problem, there are simple ways to measure flour without weights. This can be done using improvised tools. Of course, the result will not be as accurate as on electronic scales, but we are in the kitchen, and not in the chemical laboratory.

How to measure flour with a glass

Well, if the farm was littered with a simple faceted glass. It is believed that 200 grams of water is placed in it. But this does not mean that the same amount of flour will fit there. There are tricks to measuring flour with a glass.

• First, flour should be covered with a spoon, and not scooped out of the bag directly with a glass. Otherwise, voids near the walls will form in the container, and less flour will fit. Fill a glass without a “slide”.
• Secondly, we do not compact the flour in a glass, but also do not loosen it.

Did everything right? In a faceted glass you will have 160 grams. If you stamp the flour, then it will fit in a glass of 210 g. If you pre-sift and loosen, then only 125 g.

There are more ways to measure flour. Here is a small table that will help you take the right amount of flour at the right time:

Ideally, of course, it is better to make control measurements. Ask your friend for a kitchen scale. Weigh the flour once in a glass and spoon. Write down the data, hang it somewhere in a conspicuous place in the kitchen. Then, if necessary, you can always measure the right amount of flour.

Keep in mind that if you store flour incorrectly, the results may be different. There will be more damp and caked flour in a glass.

How much to hang in grams

Everything would be fine, but most often you need not 160 and not 25 grams. Usually in the recipes appear "round" numbers. This is where the question arises, for example, how to measure 100 grams of flour?

It’s easiest to “pour out” 30 or 60 grams from the glass (depending on the glass), that is, 100 grams will be a little more than half a tea and a little less than half a faceted glass. You can put 4 tablespoons without a slide. There is a trickier way. It will require us time and some simple devices.

So, we need a ruler and a blank piece of paper. On the sheet, draw a rectangle of 10 by 20 centimeters. On large sides (20 cm) we measure 2 cm, put points and connect them with lines. Before us is a 10 by 2 cm rectangle. So?

Pour a kilogram of flour on paper. Distribute it evenly over a larger rectangle, to what we painted at the beginning (20x10 cm). We make sure that the flour does not creep out of the rectangle. Then, gently with a knife, we separate the part that occupies the smaller rectangle (10x2 cm). This is 100 g.

We do the same when we don’t know how to measure 200 grams of flour. Only then we measure on the 20-cm side not 4, but 4 cm. Next - the same thing according to the algorithm. By the way, this method is also suitable for measuring sugar or cereal.

if the scales are broken or missing  at all? Many recipes require accurate proportions. Culinary products may not work if the flour is less or more than necessary.

How to weigh flour at home if there are no scales?  For weighing, kitchen utensils can be used: a glass, a can, a spoon, a pan. It is convenient to use a measuring cup with labels printed on the sides, which determine the weight of the flour. This, of course, is not an analytical (laboratory) balance, but still simple and quick.

How to weigh flour with a spoon?

Another item that can be used to weigh flour is an ordinary tablespoon or teaspoon. For weighing, scoop up the flour with a spoon and shake gently so that the excess flour crumbles. The resulting hill of flour in a tablespoon weighs 25 grams, and a teaspoon will fit 10 g.

How to weigh flour with a glass?

How to weigh flour without scales with a measuring glass?  When weighing with a glass, an ordinary faceted glass with a rim is best suited, the volume of which is 250 ml. To determine the weight of flour, it is necessary to pour it into a glass with a spoon. At the same time, do not tamp and shake it. A filled glass will hold 180 g of flour to the very edge. Flour, poured to the rim, will hold 160 g.

Weighing flour with other available tools without weights

In the absence of time, in order to weigh flour without weights, you can use two pots (large and small). Still need packaging of any cereals or sugar in 1 kg. Place the kilogram product in a small saucepan. Place it with the load in a larger pan.

Pour water gently into a large pot all the way to the edge. Next, remove the load from a small pan and fill it with flour. The rising water in a large pan to the edge will mean that the flour is exactly 1 kg. Thus, we now know how to weigh flour. We hope that these helpful tips will help you bake a culinary product.

How to weigh flour without weights, in a glass, spoon - video

To make the dish tasty and beautiful, you must adhere to the recipe. That is, take into account the proportions of the products that are used in the preparation. It’s good when you can handle using weights. Then no problems arise.

But what if this thing is not? How to accurately determine the weight of a product without weights?

Weight determination

You can find out a lot of products without weights.

Simple devices will help you in this:

• teaspoon;
• tablespoon;
• faceted glass;
• pots.

Before proceeding with the procedure, you need to know some nuances:

• the glass should be 250 ml and it must be filled to the rim;
• liquid should be poured to the edge of a spoon or glass;
• viscous or loose - you need to dial so that the glass or spoon is with a "slide";
• tamping is not necessary, otherwise the result will be incorrect;
• cereals must be weighed in a dry form;
• meat and fish should be measured in unwashed form;
• if you eat meat without fat and skin, you need to weigh only a ready-made piece of meat;
• fruits and vegetables must first be peeled and then weighed;
• if you are preparing a complex dish, first chop everything, and then weigh it.

If you are going to weigh the flour, then you should know: a teaspoon contains 10 g, a tablespoon contains 25 g. If it’s easier to measure with a glass, it contains 180 g. However, it will contain 200 g sugar, 25 g in a tablespoon. and in the tea room - 9 g.

By the way, sugar or other loose product can be weighed in another way:

1. take two different pots and a kilogram of sand;
2. pour it into the pan that is smaller in size;
3. put one dish in another (it is necessary that one pan is completely immersed in the second);
4. pour water into a large dish so that it reaches the edges of the smaller;
5. note the water level - this is the mass of one kilogram.

A little harder with viscous substances, such as honey. In a faceted glass there will be 325 g, in a teaspoon - 12 g, and in the dining room - 35 g. It is necessary to fill to the brim, best with a slide.

Liquids must be determined in the same way. If milliliters are indicated in the recipe, and not grams, then it is necessary to use a measuring cup, where there are marks with milliliters.

How to determine the weight of different products?

You can use the information presented below, and there is also a table for determining the mass. You can find it on the Internet.

In general, a teaspoon is placed:

• 5 g of liquid - water, milk;
• 9-10 g of salt or sugar;
• 4 g cereals;
• 3 g of powdered substances (e.g. flour).

In a tablespoon:

• 25 g of sugar or salt;
• 15 g of loose;
• 20 g of liquid;
• 20 g cereals.

In a faceted glass:

• 180 g flour;
• 200 g cereals;
• 200 ml of liquid;
• 250 ml of milk or vegetable oil.

How to determine the weight of the product by eye?

Sometimes you can find out the weight and by eye. For example, one average vegetable (potato, tomato, carrot, cucumber) weighs 100 g. The apple weighs as much. But quince or banana weighs 200 g. A large tomato or cucumber will be - about 350 g. And an apple - 230 g.

As for bakery products, a small bun will weigh 50 g, and a large bun will weigh 200 g. A small slice of bread will weigh 20 g, a large slice will weigh 50 g, and a little pink bun will be about 80.

A small piece of sausage weighs only 5 g, and a large one - 40. Chop - about 200 g, and a small cutlet - 95. By the way, how to determine the weight of a finished product?

You need to know that the mass is increasing:

• buckwheat porridge 2.5 times;
• rice porridge - 3 times;
• semolina - 5 times;
• pasta - 2.5 times;
• bean - 2 times.

This happens due to the fact that the products are saturated with water.

But meat products in finished form are reduced in weight:

• from 100 g of raw chicken, 50 g of boiled and 40 g of fried are obtained;
• from 100 g of raw meat - 49 g of boiled and 44 g of stew;
• 100 g cutlets with bread - 96 g of the finished fried product.

That is, without different devices, you can determine the mass. Choose the most suitable method and use it.

  The Internet today is simply overflowing with all kinds of recipes, including various pastries. In many of them, the amount of necessary products is given in grams, which for some inexperienced chefs and pastry chefs presents some difficulties. Of course, it would be nice for such cases to have electronic scales, which are characterized by high accuracy and the ability to determine the mass of even a very small amount of matter - up to several grams. But if they are not and there is no possibility to get it? How then to measure the right amount of ingredients? In fact, there is nothing easier. It is enough just to know the capacity of some cutlery, spoons, glasses, etc. Here are a few recommendations on this.

Of course, the easiest way is to measure the product by eye. Many experienced housewives do just that. To do this, you need to have a good eye, and also know the capacity of the pack. But there is one catch. If at your disposal there is a package weighing 1 kg, then measuring half a kilogram will not be difficult. Although in any case, the result will not be the most accurate. It will be much more difficult to cope with such a task when it is required to separate 275 g of flour from a pack weighing 1.5 kg. Here, no eye can help. In such cases, it is recommended to resort to more accurate measurement methods.

Baking recipes are usually characterized by the use of large quantities of flour. In such cases, the most common faceted glass will be the ideal measuring tool. Before use, it should be washed and then thoroughly wiped with a dry towel from a cloth that absorbs water well. If this is not done, then the flour will adhere to the walls and this will create certain difficulties. So, with a prepared glass, scoop up the flour so that it fills the container with a slide. Then, using a knife, carefully remove the slide. After all the manipulations are done, about 150 g of flour will remain in the glass. The error of this measurement method is very small - plus or minus 5 g, which in comparison with the volumes required for baking is simply an insignificant difference.

The disadvantage of this method is that they can only measure volumes of round values \u200b\u200bin increments of 150 g, that is, 150, 300, 450, etc. A small space for maneuver opens when there are risks on the glass, that is, a special horizontal line.

If you fill a glass with liquid up to this mark, you get exactly 200 ml, but if you measure flour - 130 g. However, using these two quantities - 150 and 130 g, it’s unlikely that you can measure, for example, 250 g or 110 g. Therefore, the most accurate a way to purchase a special measuring cup, on the transparent wall of which there are divisions, allowing very accurately determine the amount of products poured into it. Today, such products in a large assortment are present in hardware stores. Moreover, they can be used to measure not only flour, but also any loose or liquid products.

Sometimes only one type of graduation is applied to measuring glasses, designed to determine the volume of liquid. Of course, flour can be measured using such containers. To do this, it is enough to know the density of the substance, which when multiplied by the volume gives mass. The density of the flour is such that 1 ml of volume contains 0.65 g. Thus, 100 ml is 65 g of flour. This method has two significant drawbacks.

Firstly, calculations are required, albeit very simple, but still.

Secondly, on measuring cups there are mainly divisions corresponding to round numbers. For example, if you need to measure 75 g of flour, then it will be 115 ml. It is unlikely that you will find the corresponding division on the scale.

Also, flour is used not only for baking, but also in other recipes. For example, for breading or giving a mixture of liquid products the desired density and viscosity. In such cases, the amount of flour given in the recipes is limited to a small mass - from 10 to 50 g, so it is better to use spoons for measuring out - a tablespoon or a teaspoon.

In the first case, you will first have to pick up a spoon whose dimensions meet generally accepted standards, because today every manufacturer strives to develop his own original design. As a result, the volume of tablespoons can vary greatly. At the same time, there is a certain standard for such products, and when a tablespoon is mentioned in recipes as a measure of weight and volume, it should be remembered that we mean generally accepted sizes. For us it is not necessary to know all the proportions, it is enough that the scooping capacity should be 7 cm in length. Such a tablespoon, filled with a slide, holds 15 g. If the volume of flour is aligned with the knife along the edges, that is, remove the mountain, then 10 g of flour will remain in the spoon. Another important detail, if in the recipe the necessary amount of flour is indicated immediately in tablespoons, then it means the spoons with slides.

If you want to measure out a very small amount of flour, then the best assistant will be a teaspoon - the length of the scoop portion is 5 cm. If you fill in such a cutlery with flour, then you get 12 g. Without a slide, the teaspoon holds 7 g. Although the slides can be different ...

Continuing the topic of how to measure an ingredient when there are no weights or a measuring cup, we’ll talk today about how to measure flour in such a situation. In baking recipes, the amount of flour in grams is often indicated. Experienced housewives, already reading the recipe, can determine which dough will turn out, how much flour is needed. But what about young people who are just beginning to grasp the basics of culinary art? Do not be upset. Flour, as well as sugar, can be measured with a glass or spoon. And vice versa, if you specify how many glasses you need, you can translate into grams. Usually when talking about a glass, a faceted glass is meant. We use it more often and this measure of measure has got to us from our grandmothers.

How to measure flour without scales with a glass

A faceted glass happens with a rim and without it. A glass with a rim includes 250 ml of liquid. And in a glass without a rim - 200 ml. From this we will proceed.

If you pour flour into a faceted glass with a rim to the very edge, then ordinary wheat flour of the highest grade will contain 160 grams.

In a glass without a rim of the same flour there will be only 130 grams, or more precisely - 128 grams.

The same amount, i.e. 130 grams will be if you pour flour into a glass on the rim.

When baking pies or rolls, it is certainly more convenient to use a glass from measuring flour. In such recipes, flour is usually required from 400 or more grams. What to do if there is no faceted glass? But there’s still some kind of glass in the house or a cup for tea.

Let's say you have a glass of 180 ml. To calculate how much flour will be in such a glass, you need 180x160 / 250, where 180 is the volume of our glass. 160 - the weight of the flour in a faceted glass with a rim and 250 - the volume of the faceted glass. It can be calculated based on the volume of a faceted glass without a rim.

How to measure flour without weights with a spoon

Spoon measure the flour for the pie much longer. But this method is quite acceptable. I have a special sieve in the form of a mug for sifting flour. It’s just more convenient for me to sprinkle flour with a spoon.

In a tablespoon (deep, not flat) of flour there will be approximately 20 grams. Why approximately? If you scoop up here with such a slide, as in the photo, then 20 grams.

If the hill is higher, and the flour is not sugar and does not pour from a spoon, then flour can be scooped up from about 25 to 40 grams.

With the same small slide in a teaspoon of flour there will be about 10 grams. But with a teaspoon, flour is usually required to be measured only if for a face mask and then oat or potato.

Now many have crock-pots or bread machines. Usually a measuring cup comes with them. Usually they are small. I have a 100 ml glass for a multicooker. They can also measure flour, knowing that 64 grams of flour will interfere in 100 ml.

Wheat flour of the second grade, from which bread is usually baked, practically does not differ in weight. Therefore, it can be measured using these methods.