Banal household question about how much in a glassgram of a product, often torments housewives when they find a new interesting recipe in the culinary book, and the ingredients are indicated in it not in the facial glasses, table and teaspoons that are familiar to us, but, for example, in grams.
If you have kitchen scales in your arsenal, thenthe problem is solved by itself, but if they are not, then all this must be somehow translated into cups and spoons. Of course, it is also very convenient in everyday life to determine how many grams, in a measuring cup, if any. Especially if it has not one scale, but several, corresponding to the volume of the main frequently used ingredients, such as water, flour, sugar and salt.
With a hill or without?
Just a couple of nuances:how full should be a glass with a liquid and how much with a bulk product? With or without a slide, should the dry ingredients be measured with a tablespoon? In all of this, we will try to understand now. The first thing to remember is that you need to fill the glasses and spoons completely with liquid, and pour the bulk products with a slide, while trying not to tamp them and not to loosen them in addition. And for everything else, there is a special table of the ratio of measures of volume and weight of products. It will also be convenient when recalculating in the case when it is more convenient not to soil glasses and spoons, but to measure the amount of dry ingredients using scales.
1 cup: how many grams are in it?
So, it is important to remember that only in recipes,adapted for Russia, under the glass is meant nothing more than the legendary Soviet cut glass, whose history begins with a glass factory in Gus-Khrustalny on September 11, 1943, when its first copy came off the assembly line. Every inhabitant of the USSR was clearly convinced that if he was filled with water to the brim, then 250 grams would come out, and if before the rim, exactly 200. All housewives knew how much grams of flour and sugar in a glass. They were sure that about 150 grams of the first component were in the full, and 120 under the bezel, 120 and 160 grams of the second, respectively. Detailed information on how many grams of cereals, mushrooms, honey, butter, milk and other products are contained in special tables for beginners, for example, here:
| Product | Teaspoon, g | Table spoon, g | Glass (250 ml), g |
| Buckwheat | 8 | 25 | 210 |
| Rice | 8 | 25 | 230 |
| Semolina | 7 | 25 | 200 |
| Groats "Hercules" | 6 | 12 | 90 |
| Beans | 10 | 30 | 220 |
| Mayonnaise | 4 | 14 | 230 |
| Vinegar | 5 | 15 | 250 |
| Honey | 9 | 30 | 415 |
| Vegetable oil | 5 | 20 | 230 |
| Butter | 15 | 40 | 210 |
| Whole milk | - | 20 | 250 |
| Milk powder | 5 | 20 | 120 |
| Sour cream | 10 | 20 | 250 |
| Salt | 10 | 30 | 325 |
How many grams in a glass of Russians, Americans and Europeans?
What else should be considered modernMistress, so this is the birthplace of the recipe. The fact is that in each country it is considered to be containers of different volumes for a glass, cup, mug. For example, a standard American mug has 240 ml, a European mug is 250 ml, with pedantic Britons it has 284 grams, and the national Japanese cup contains no more than one “go,” that is, 180 ml. Accurate information about how many grams in a glass is usually needed for novice cooks. Over time, experienced chefs no longer particularly bother with the jewelry accuracy of the quantity of the product, but use their trouble-free system “by eye” and “by the tooth.” The experience gained over the years allows them to determine the necessary consistency and the necessary proportions on their own.
