Caring housewives love to pamper their home with all sorts of delicious new products. In any family, over the years, a certain set of dishes develops, which are usually out of habit prepared for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But how nice it is sometimes to bring something new to the table and see a grateful smile on the faces of relatives.
A new recipe can easily be found on the Internet, read in a cookbook or borrow from a best friend. The list of necessary products is usually made in grams. But not every housewife in the kitchen has scales with which you can measure the right amount. In such cases, standard measuring tanks are used. As such a container, a glass, a teaspoon or a tablespoon can act. You must admit that it’s much easier to measure a spoonful of a product than even with weights trying to weigh the right amount of product. But not everyone knows, for example, how much sugar is in a glass or how many grams of flour is contained in one teaspoon. Conditional measures surround us at every turn. To make it easier to navigate them, experts came up with a table in which all the main food products are expressed in different sizes: glasses, spoons, grams and, if possible, in pieces. Such a table allows you to write any recipe in uniform quantities and easily compile a list of necessary products.
Take sugar, for example. In cooking, this product is used in the form of sand or powder. In the measures table, each of these items is recorded separately. In practice, this is as follows. A regular glass of sugar is required by prescription. We know that it has a volume of 250 milliliters. And how much sugar is a gram in a glass? The table immediately shows that there is 200 grams of granulated sugar. Mass is calculated based on the density of each substance. Everyone from school is familiar with the expression: "Density is mass per unit volume." So, if you multiply the volume of a substance by its density, then you can get the desired mass of the substance. The same is in the kitchen. In order to find out how much sugar is in a glass, you need to multiply the volume of the glass by the density of sugar. The volume of an ordinary glass is known to us, and the density of sugar is 800 kg / meter cubic. Remained naked mathematics: 250x800 / 1000 = 200 grams. The same is with any other product. Sugar is part of many dishes, so the question is how much sugar is in a glass, often confronts housewives, especially beginners.
But there is a situation where you know how many grams of sugar are in a glass, but the glass itself is not at hand. What to do in this case? Here again, a conversion table comes to the rescue. According to her, it is known that in one tablespoon 25 grams of sugar, and we need 200 grams. How to be Again, mathematics comes to the rescue: 200/25 = 8. Therefore, 200 grams of sugar is easy to measure if you take 8 tablespoons of this product. In some cookbooks, you can find ready-made recounts for all known products. This greatly facilitates the work of the hostess in the kitchen. Such a table should be printed and hung in a prominent place.
Having carefully studied all the columns of this table, you can see that the mass of products in it is indicated in two different glasses. Our domestic industry still produces both ordinary tea glasses and
faceted ones. A faceted glass is a cylinder having a special rim in its upper part. Before this rim, the volume of the glass is 200 milliliters. Therefore, to find out how many grams of sugar are in a faceted glass, you need to multiply the product density by the desired volume: 800x200 / 1000 = 160 grams. Such glasses are in every home and very often housewives use them in order to measure the right amount of a product. The bezel on the glass does not make it possible to make a mistake and allows you to take exactly the weight that is necessary according to the recipe. Such culinary tricks should be known to every housewife.