Having decided to please family members with a new culinary masterpiece, many housewives often face the problem of determining the exact amount of ingredients necessary for its preparation, which in most recipes is calculated in grams. Firstly, not every housewife has accurate kitchen scales in the kitchen. Secondly, measuring some products with improvised means, for example, teaspoons, is much more convenient and faster. So how do you convert grams to teaspoons?
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How many grams of bulk food 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 culinary 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 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 in the cutlery should be poured without a slide.
The most common foods most culinary recipes use are sugar and salt. So, if you decide to cook a dish that includes these ingredients, know that in one teaspoon fits 5 grams of sugar and 7 grams of salt without a slide. The flour necessary for making pies, cakes, pastries, cookies and other confectionery products in a regular teaspoon fits a little more, namely 9 grams.
Young mothers often use cutlery when measuring the exact amount of cereal in the process of making baby cereal. So, in an ordinary teaspoon, 6 grams of oatmeal, 7 grams of buckwheat or barley groats, 8 grams of semolina or millet, 9 grams of rice or wheat flour, 10 grams of peas can fit.
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 dried yeast, 2 grams of dried ground herbs.