Measuring spoons and measuring cups are very useful tools for accurately measuring the volume of cooking or baking ingredients, which have different types.
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Familiarity with all types of cooking measures and their sizes
One of the concerns and challenges in cooking and baking is measuring ingredients. Measuring cups and spoons can be used to accurately measure ingredients while cooking, baking, or preparing desserts , but at this time, you probably have a question: how much is a cup? Or how many grams is a tablespoon or a soup spoon? Stay with this part of trends to learn about measuring cups and spoons.
Measuring spoons
Special measuring spoons, which are used to measure the volume of materials, are available in the market in two types, plastic and metal. Usually, measuring cups are used to measure many ingredients, but some basic ingredients such as salt, baking powder, vanilla, etc. They are always used on a small scale, so it is better to use spoons to measure these ingredients. Measuring spoons are available in sets of 4 and 5.
4 spoons
4 spoons from big to small are:
- spoon
- Jam spoon (tea spoon for foreigners)
- tea spoon
- Half a teaspoon
Set of 5 spoons
Set of 5 spoons from big to small are:
- spoon
- jam spoon
- tea spoon
- Half a teaspoon
- A quarter of a teaspoon
In the set of six, there is also a sixth spoon with the volume of “one-eighth of a teaspoon”.
There is no three-quarter or three-eighth spoon in measuring spoons, and three-fourths of a teaspoon in the recipe means to use a quarter-teaspoon three times.
Set of four external measuring spoons
The set of four foreign spoons are:
- A tablespoon of 1tbsp
- Half a tablespoon 1/2tbsp
- A teaspoon 1tsp
- half teaspoon 1/2tsp
Latin phrases written on spoons
Sometimes, inside some sets of measuring spoons, Latin phrases are written, which mean:
- tbsp which means table spoon and is equivalent to Table Spoon.
- Tsp which means teaspoon and is equivalent to Tea Spoon.
What is a soup spoon?
In some cooking instructions, we refer to “soup spoon”, although a soup spoon is slightly hollower than a dining spoon, but in cooking instructions, a soup spoon means the same as a dining spoon, and a soup spoon and a dining spoon are not different from each other.
How to measure with spoons
For dry ingredients, stir the ingredients with a clean spoon and then dip the spoon into the container and fill it and flatten its head.
To measure liquids, choose the desired spoon and fill it. To measure sticky substances such as honey, caramel , etc., and prevent these substances from sticking to the spoon, grease the measuring spoons and then measure.
Standard Measuring Cup
In the cooking instructions, the size of some ingredients is expressed in measures. Measuring cups are available in different materials such as steel, plastic and china. The cups are available in sets of 4, 5, and 6.
4 cups
4 measures from large to small are:
1 measure, 1/2 measure, 1/3 measure, and 1/4 measure.
5 cups
1 measure, 1/2 measure, 1/3 measure, 1/4 measure, and 1/8 measure.
6 cups
Measures of one 1, one second 1/2, one third 1/3, one quarter 1/4, one eighth and two thirds.
In the cooking instructions, where three quarters of a cup is mentioned, it means that you should use one quarter of a cup three times.
How to measure with measures
To measure powdered and dry ingredients with measuring cups, first stir the ingredients with a spoon and then choose and fill the desired measuring cup with a spoon and do not put the measuring cup into the container in any way. Smooth the surface with a knife or palette.
To measure wet and wet ingredients, choose the desired measure, remove the ingredients with a spoon and fill the measure. Then press the ingredients with the back of a spoon or spatula until the cup is completely filled.
To measure sticky substances such as honey and to prevent the substance from sticking to the measure, use a little oily liquid oil in the measure and then measure.
It is better to use a graduated jug to measure liquids.
Convert measures to tablespoons and teaspoons:
- One cup: 16 tablespoons: 48 teaspoons
- Three, fourth cup: 12 tablespoons: 36 teaspoons
- Two, third cup: 11 tablespoons: 32 teaspoons
- First, second measure: 8 tablespoons: 24 teaspoons
- One third of a cup: 5 tablespoons: 16 teaspoons
- One quarter cup: 4 tablespoons: 12 teaspoons
- One, eighth cup: 2 tablespoons: 6 teaspoons
- One, sixteenth measure: 1 tablespoon: 3 teaspoons