Having decided to please family members with a new culinary masterpiece, many housewives often face the problem of determining the exact amount of ingredients required for its preparation, which in most recipes is calculated in grams. Firstly, not every housewife has an accurate kitchen scale in the kitchen. Secondly, it is much more convenient and faster to measure some products with improvised means, for example, with teaspoons. So how do you convert grams to teaspoons?
How many grams of bulk products in a teaspoon
It is very convenient to use a teaspoon to measure the amount of certain products, because this cutlery is in the arsenal of kitchen utensils of any housewife. Even happy owners of scales do not always resort to the help of these kitchen appliances, if necessary, measure, for example, 10-20 grams of the products indicated in the recipe, because it is easier and faster to do this with an ordinary teaspoon.
The number of grams of various ingredients for the preparation of a particular dish, placed in a teaspoon, is not the same. It depends both on the density of the measured products and on their consistency. It is also worth noting that when determining the weight of bulk products with teaspoons, the ingredients should be poured into the cutlery without a slide.
The most common foods used in most recipes are sugar and salt. So, if you decide to cook a dish that contains these ingredients, know that one teaspoon can hold 5 grams of sugar and 7 grams of salt without a slide. The amount of flour necessary for making pies, cakes, pastries, cookies and other confectionery products in an ordinary teaspoon fits a little more, namely 9 grams.
Young mothers often use cutlery when measuring the exact amount of cereal in the process of preparing baby porridge. So, an ordinary teaspoon can fit 6 grams of oatmeal, 7 grams of buckwheat or barley, 8 grams of semolina or millet, 9 grams of rice or wheat flour, 10 grams of peas.
You can also measure other bulk products with cutlery. For example, one teaspoon contains 7 grams of baking soda, 6 grams of cocoa, 5 grams of cinnamon, 4 grams of ground coffee, 2.5 grams of dry yeast, 2 grams of dry ground medicinal herbs.
How many grams of liquid foods are in a teaspoon
You can translate into teaspoons not only bulk products, but also all kinds of liquids, as well as thick and viscous masses. Measuring water with cutlery is, of course, not a good idea, because it is much easier to do this with a measuring cup. However, the preparation of some dishes requires the use of very little water, so here, too, a teaspoon can be a faithful helper for you.
An ordinary teaspoon, which no doubt is in the arsenal of kitchen utensils of any housewife, holds 5 grams of water, vinegar, vegetable oil, citric acid, whole milk or melted margarine, 10 grams of sour cream, honey, tomato paste, butter or tomato paste.
