When reading recipes, especially if this recipe is taken from some cookbook, and the appendix on measures and weights does not appear in it, the question often arises about the content in grams of a substance in a glass, spoon, etc., in particular , constantly wondering how much flour is in a glass or granulated sugar?
Of course, if you have a fairly accurate tabletop kitchen scale at home, then the question of how much flour is in a glass or something else is missing. But not all, alas, have such scales, and the steelyard with which we weigh vegetables and fruits for pickles and jam gives too much error, and of course he is not our assistant here.
We are used to saying that everyone knows the faceted glass is 200 grams. But why should 200 grams be contained in it so that we can call it that? Is it just a liquid with a strength of 40 degrees?
To begin with, the glasses are most often divided into the already mentioned faceted and thin-walled (tea) glasses, and they are different in terms of capacity and capacity - thin-walled more - its volume is exactly 250 cubic centimeters (holds 250 milliliters of water), but with faceted, "thick-walled" nuances of recounting arise - an ordinary faceted glass, as you know, has a rim on top (where there are no more grooves), so if the glass is filled only "along the rim", then it can be considered two hundred grams, and if filled up to the very edges - then two hundred fifty grams. Again the question - 200 or 250 grams of what?
With water, it seems clear. But how much flour is in a glass in either case - here the tabular data varies.
According to one data, wheat flour contains 160 grams in a thin-walled (tea) glass and 130 grams in a faceted one. In another case, it is indicated that in a full faceted glass there will be 150 grams of flour, and if not poured to the edges, but “under the rim” , then 120 grams (I emphasize that we are only talking about wheat flour, rye flour and flour made from other cereals, other data).
I wasn’t too lazy once, and in order to find out how many grams of flour were in a glass, I poured a full faceted glass of flour into a plastic bag, went to the nearest store where there are electronic scales, and asked the seller to weigh. It turned out that in my most ordinary faceted glass with a rim full, but without the top, premium wheat flour turned out to be 140 grams (I can’t guarantee, of course, how exactly the scales are set in the store, but since I weigh in this case there was no reason, I think that it’s pretty accurate, the weight of a thin package is negligible), again, the flour can be of different humidity and therefore some kind of error is still permissible.
Personally, I decided for myself in such cases to stick to the middle ground, and when I need to do the recount myself, I take into account the figure of 150 grams of flour in a faceted glass filled with a small (about half a centimeter high) slide. That is, if you need to measure half a kilogram of flour with glasses, then I take 3 full faceted glasses and add another third.
You can find out how much flour is in a glass in other ways, for example, with a special measuring cup or, trusting the table data, consider that a tablespoon with top contains 25-30 grams of flour (again, the table data varies). For example, in my faceted glass there are 7 tablespoons of flour with a top, from which it turns out that my spoons are not standard, as it appears that in my spoon there are only about 20 grams of flour. It remains only to go to the pharmacy in the prescription department - to check.
In general, I’ve already decided for myself - I need to buy a tabletop kitchen scale home - “millimeter” to a gram, calculating how much flour is in a faceted glass, or how much sugar, of course, I’m unlikely to, but when you need to find out the data on some more rarely found products, then valuable search time and recounts will be saved for sure!