Often, for the preparation of a particular dish, it is necessary to observe strict proportions of the ingredients, especially with regard to baking. One has only to add a little or not enough flour - and the result is already far from what was expected. However, even if you do not have a kitchen scale, you can measure flour with the help of improvised means.
It is necessary
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- Wheat flour;
- faceted glass;
- tablespoon;
- tea spoon;
- measuring cup.
Instructions
Step 1
It is most convenient to determine the weight of flour using a regular faceted glass, which has been kept by many since Soviet times. Filled to the brim, it holds about 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.
Step 2
If you don't have a glass of the size you want, measure out the flour with a tablespoon. This process will take longer, but, perhaps, it will be even more accurate. 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 a rule, if the recipe suggests measuring flour with tablespoons, it means just the volume with a "chunk", unless otherwise specified. You can 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.
Step 3
Sometimes it is required to measure a very small amount of flour - 5, 10, 15 g. In this case, it is convenient 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.
Step 4
It often happens that there is no ordinary glass, but there is a transparent container with divisions for determining the volume. For example, it can be a glass from a multicooker or 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 because the divisions applied to the glass may simply not be enough for you. For example, it is easy to calculate that 100 g of flour is approximately equal to 153 ml, but you will hardly be able to find a container with such a mark. Thus, this method is not accurate enough.
Step 5
And, finally, the most unreliable, but fastest way. All you need is the flour in the package it was sold in and a good eye. For example, you have a kilogram pack of flour, and according to the recipe you need to measure out 500 g. It is easy to guess that you need to pour out half of the package. However, in order to avoid misunderstandings, use the "by eye" weighing method only in extreme cases, when otherwise in any way or proportions are not so important.
