Often, for the preparation of a dish, it is necessary to observe strict proportions of ingredients, especially for baking. It is only necessary to pour a little or not enough flour - and the result is already far from expected. However, even if you do not have a kitchen scale, you can measure flour using improvised means.
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You will need
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- Wheat flour;
- faceted glass;
- tablespoon;
- tea spoon;
- measuring cup.
Instruction manual
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It is most convenient to determine the weight of flour using an ordinary faceted glass, which has been stored by many since Soviet times. Stuffed to the brim, it holds about 160 grams of premium wheat flour. If you fill a faceted glass to the upper risk (at this point its volume is 200 ml), then the flour in the glass will be about 130 grams.
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If you don’t have a glass of the right volume, measure the flour with a tablespoon. This process will take more time, but perhaps it will be even more accurate. In a standard tablespoon (the length of the scoop capacity is 7 cm), filled with a “slide”, 15 g of flour is contained, without a “slide” - 10 g. As a rule, if the recipe suggests measuring the flour with tablespoons, it means just the volume with a "pea", unless otherwise specified. You can determine the weight of flour and a five-centimeter spoon. In this case, without a slide, 7 g will fit in a spoon, and 12 g with a slide.
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Sometimes you need to measure a very small amount of flour - 5, 10, 15 g. In this case, it is convenient to use a teaspoon. Filling it to the brim, you get 4 grams of flour, and if you also leave the "hill" - then 5 g.
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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 a 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 in that you may just not have enough of the divisions applied to the glass. For example, it is easy to calculate that 100 g of flour is approximately equal to 153 ml, but it is unlikely that you will be able to find a container with such a mark. Thus, this method is not accurate enough.
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And finally, the most unreliable, but quick way. All you need is flour in the packaging in which it was sold, and a good eye. For example, you have a kilogram pack of flour, and according to the recipe you need to measure 500 g. It is easy to guess that you need to pour half the package. However, in order to avoid misunderstandings, use the method of weighing "by eye" only in extreme cases, when otherwise nothing or proportions are so important.
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