"For luck!" - this is what they say when dishes are broken that are accidentally dropped or broken specially during weddings and happy holidays. However, not everyone knows that this good tradition has deep roots. Its "founder" was Tsar Peter I, who gave birth to the production of faceted glasses in Russia. Despite the fact that the first sample of “unbreakable” dishes brought by Vladimir glassmaker Yefim Smolin shattered to pieces when tested, the wise emperor saw a great future in him.
A bit of history
An irreplaceable household item acquired its current look back in 1945. Its author was V. I. Mukhina, the famous architect of the Soviet era, who created the sculptural group "Worker and Collective Farm Girl". A faceted glass was called “Mukhinsky”.
Glasses of various volumes were produced - from 50 to 350 ml, but in cooking and everyday life, a 200-gram faceted glass with a smooth rim was more common. It was suitable for processing in dishwashers and became a common measure of volume and weight. The notorious “figure out for three” also owes its origin to this particular capacity. 0.5 liter was ideally divided into 3 parts, if poured into a faceted glass along the rim. In this case, the population never had the question: "200 ml - how many glasses?"
Every housewife used to have accurate scales or measuring cups with labels on the outside for food level and the corresponding volume and weight, which make it possible to find out how many ml in a measuring cup of flour or sugar. The widespread use of faceted glasses has led to the fact that they have become the most common instrument for measuring the amount of ingredients for any dish. After finding out the amount of a product (for example, how many ml of milk in a glass), one could start cooking. Such measuring utensils has become an indispensable attribute in the preparation of almost all daily phenomena.
From theory to practice
Different bulk products with the same volume naturally have different weights. Some recipes contain common measures: 2 cups, 3 tablespoons, a pinch of salt, while others contain the exact weight of the food in grams. It is necessary to find out how many ml in a faceted glass of various cereals, sugar, milk, spices. It must be remembered that all products are poured or poured into a faceted glass along the rim, and not to the top.
Initially, the capacity of any measuring vessel is determined by how many ml are in 1 cup (cup, stack) of water. From here comes its name. A 200- or 250-gram glass, a glass of 50 g, etc. The weight of other products in the same container will already differ, sometimes significantly.
For example, knowing that flour in a glass of 130 g, how do you know how many ml in 1 glass of milk? To resolve such issues, special tables have been created once and for all, giving housewives complete information about the weight and volume of the main bulk and liquid prescription ingredients used in cooking. They accurately indicate how many ml in a glass and how many ml of various products in a teaspoon and a tablespoon.
It should be remembered that weight and volume are different concepts. How many ml in a faceted glass and how many g - you need to know for sure so as not to make an irreparable mistake in the cooking process. Below is a table of the weight capacity of a regular 200-gram faceted glass.
In a faceted glass is placed
Products | Amount in grams | Number of Art. spoons |
Water | 200 | 10-11 |
Flour | 130 | 5 with a slide |
Sugar | 180 | 7-8 |
Sugar powder | 160 | 7-8 |
Milk | 200 | 10-11 |
Condensed milk | 360 | 12 |
Sour cream | 210 | eight |
Vegetable oil | 190 | 9-10 |
Melted butter | 190 | 9-10 |
Buckwheat grain | 165 | 6.5 |
Semolina | 150 | 6 |
Wheat flour | 130 | 5-6 |
Rice | 180 | 7 |
Cocoa powder | 130 | eight |
The number of tablespoons, equal to weight, is indicated in order to accurately add half a cup indicated in the recipes, 1/4 cup. Knowing how many ml and grams are in a glass , using simple calculations, you can add the right small amount with a spoon. In the same way, you can increase as well as reduce the required amount of additives.
Important point
Do not confuse the glasses themselves with each other. In an ordinary thin glass, otherwise called a tea, the volume is more than 50 ml.
This small difference in volume can lead to a sad result in such a crucial matter as cooking. You can get a completely unusable dish by simply taking another glass as a measured one. You need to know exactly how many ml of the desired product in a glass.
Foreign recipes
Recently, the interest of our compatriots in some national cuisines and cooking features in other countries has intensified.
If you periodically use recipes taken from foreign magazines or online resources, you need to know that the main measure adopted there is a cup. It is equal in volume to a thin glass. How many ml are in a glass, so much is 250 in it. The measures of weight and volume abroad are also different, and they should be known.
Convertible table of weight and volume to units accepted by us
Foreign units | Units of volume accepted at us | We accepted units of weight |
1 cup (America) | 250 ml | - |
1 tbsp. the spoon | 15 ml | - |
1 teaspoon | 5 ml | - |
1 pint | 470 ml | - |
1 quart | 950 ml | - |
1 oz | 30 ml | - |
1 cup | 280 ml | - |
1 tbsp. the spoon | 17 ml | - |
1 teaspoon | 6 ml | - |
1 pint | 570 ml | - |
1 quart | 1100 ml | - |
1 oz | - | 28.3 g |
1 pound | - | 450 g |
Products are poured into the container freely, without tamping (both loose and liquid) to the rim, where the pattern of faces ends. Liquid fill spoons to the brim, loose ones are drawn “with a hill” or “with a knoll”, depending on the recipe.
By default, in ml, cups and spoons indicate liquid and bulk products, in grams - only bulk.
Cooking tasty and wholesome food depends on several factors.
The necessary conditions
- The quality of the products.
- Matching their chosen recipe.
- The correct dosage.
- The correct sequence of cooking and making flavorings.
- The heat treatment or cooling required for this dish.
- Good mood of the hostess. Oddly enough, this sounds, but many years of research by dietitians have proved that good mood is transmitted to the dish, turning it from an ordinary set of fats, proteins and carbohydrates into a culinary masterpiece.