A commonplace household question about how many grams of a given product in a glass often torment housewives when they find a new interesting recipe in the cookbook, and the ingredients are not listed in the faceted glasses, tablespoons and teaspoons that are familiar to us, but for example, in grams.
If you have a kitchen scale in your arsenal, then the problem will be solved by itself, but if they are not, then all this simply needs to be somehow transferred to cups and spoons. Of course, it is also very convenient in everyday life to determine how many grams are in a measuring cup, if any. Especially if not one scale is applied on it, but several, corresponding to the volume of the main frequently used ingredients, such as water, flour, sugar and salt.
With or without a slide?
A couple more nuances: how full should a glass of liquid be and how much with a bulk product? With or without a slide, measure out the dry ingredients with a tablespoon? We’ll try to figure it out now. The first thing to remember is that it is necessary to fill the glasses and spoons completely with liquid, and pour loose products with a slide, while trying not to tamp them and do not loosen them further. And for everything else, there is a special table for the ratio of measures of volume and weight of products. It will also be convenient for recounting in the case when it is more convenient not to dirty glasses and spoons, but to measure the amount of dry components with the help of weights.
1 cup: how many grams are in it?
So, it is important to remember that only in recipes adapted for Russia, the glass means nothing more than the legendary Soviet faceted glass, the history of which begins with the glass factory in Gus-Khrustalny on September 11, 1943, when its first copy came off the assembly line. Each resident of the USSR was clearly sure that if it was filled to the brim with water, then 250 grams would come out, and if to the “rim”, then exactly 200. All housewives knew how many grams of flour and sugar were in a glass. They were sure that the full consisted of approximately 150 grams of the first component, and “under the rim” - 120, the second, respectively, 200 and 160 grams. Detailed information about 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 | Tablespoon g | Glass (250ml), g |
| Buckwheat | eight | 25 | 210 |
| Rice | eight | 25 | 230 |
| Semolina | 7 | 25 | 200 |
| Groats "Hercules" | 6 | 12 | 90 |
| Beans | ten | thirty | 220 |
| Mayonnaise | 4 | fourteen | 230 |
| Vinegar | 5 | fifteen | 250 |
| Honey | nine | thirty | 415 |
| Vegetable oil | 5 | 20 | 230 |
| Butter | fifteen | 40 | 210 |
| Whole milk | - | 20 | 250 |
| Milk powder | 5 | 20 | 120 |
| Sour cream | ten | 20 | 250 |
| Salt | ten | thirty | 325 |
How many grams do Russians, Americans and Europeans have in a glass?
What else needs to be considered by modern housewives is the birthplace of the recipe. The fact is that in each country , it is customary to consider containers of different volumes for a glass, cup, mug . For example, a standard American mug has 240 ml, a European mug has 250 ml, pedantic Britons have 284 grams in it, and a national Japanese cup holds no more than one “go,” that is 180 ml. Accurate information about how many grams are in a glass is necessary, as a rule, for beginners. 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 tooth”. The experience gained over the years allows them to determine the necessary consistency and the necessary proportions on their own.