Long since, conjuring in the kitchen over another culinarymasterpiece, our mothers and grandmothers used measuring spoons (table and tea) to accurately measure the number of products. This helped in the end to obtain a balance of taste, color and smell of the dish, which housewives were counting on. Even today, often there are cutlery, called measuring dishes, only because they are used to determine the amount of necessary substance.
What are the measuring spoons for? They are designed for loose or liquid ingredients: sugar, flour, salt, baking powder for dough, spices, as well as honey, water, milk and vegetable oil. They are also used in determining the amount of protein powder or geyner in sports nutrition. They also measure children's mixtures.
For Europeans and Americans the most familiara measuring attribute for cooking dishes are measuring spoons. In grams, it is very easy to calculate their volume. It is indicated by a marking. On tablespoons, the following combinations of letters can be indicated: 1 Tb, Tbs or Tbsp, on tea-spoons - 1 Tsp. In addition, measuring instruments with a volume of ½ Tsp or ¼ Tsp are often present in the measuring spoon set, which can be calculated by dividing the weight of the ingredient in a teaspoon by 2 or 4.
The quantity of loose materials in a measuring tablespoon can be determined from the table:
Products | | Without a hill | With a slide |
Sugar | 10 | 15 |
Salt | 14 | 20 |
Flour (sifted) | 7 | 12 |
Rice | 12 | 17 |
Corn starch | 10 | 15 |
Ground nuts | 8 | 12 |
Grated cheese | 6 | 11 |
Dry grass (including tea) | 4 | 6 |
Fresh Grass | 8 | 10 |
Russian-language recipes often mean full tablespoons with a slide, while English-speaking chefs prefer to use measuring spoons without a "pyramid" - level tablespoon.
Gainers - protein cocktails that are so necessaryPeople actively involved in sports are issued with special measuring spoons. Their volume in grams is usually 50 g, but can also vary depending on the manufacturer. For example, the Serious Mass brand from Optimum Nutrition in a measuring spoon contains 167 g of powder, while the Up Your Mass measuring scoop of the MHP brand can collect only 33 g of product.
Degree of filling the usual dining room or tea roomspoons when measuring the dosage of a dry mix for a baby can create inconvenience in the form of a "pyramid" or "roller coaster". A sufficiently large error that can arise due to the habit of measuring "by eye" often leads to incorrect feeding of the child, since it is likely that the necessary volume of the product will be "disassembled". Convenient measuring spoons with high sides and the ability to "cut off" excess powder are included with each mixture.
In addition to baby food, measuring spoons can bedetect in medicines requiring compliance with the exact dosage. In the pharmacy you can buy these tools separately. Collected medicines, syrups, infusions, extracts and other liquid dosage forms in a measuring spoon also to the level of the rim.
A unique development for weighing - electronic measuring spoon-scales - can now be used to quickly determine the quantity of any product.