A tablespoon is an item that will definitely be found in any kitchen (and far from in one copy). In most people, it is associated with eating. But the housewives who are engaged in canning vegetables for the winter or often prepare pies, use this item for another purpose - measuring.
If you ask: “And how much sugar in a tablespoon is 10 grams or maybe 20?”, Not everyone can answer for sure. But if you take a recipe book, then in almost every housewife the amount of ingredients in most cases is written in spoons. Not all, of course, mainly concerns recipes for salting and pickling vegetables. Naturally, there are other ways to measure liquid and bulk products (faceted glasses, scales, after all), but still, many people use spoons in the old way, and the taste of cooked dishes does not suffer a bit.
Previously, when the scales in the kitchen were more of a luxury (and those that were used gave an error of at least 50 grams), most of the products were measured by improvised means. Most mothers and grandmothers still have some kind of cup with which they measure flour or sugar, and the same spoon. As for the recipes of those years, in them almost all the ingredients are indicated just not in grams, but in glasses and in spoons. Moreover, the latter option is possible even with a slide and without a slide.
But what to do if there are no exact scales at hand, but in order to bake a pie or pickle cabbage, you need to measure a certain amount of food? It turns out that a tablespoon, regardless of its shape and design, has a certain capacity according to the standard. Knowing it, you can translate any number of grams into the number of these units by simple arithmetic operations. If a tablespoon is often used as a measuring tool for the same products, the hostess already remembers how many grams are in it, and uses it without prompting.
Flour, cocoa powder, butter, sugar, vinegar, salt - this is not a complete list of products that are often measured using various spoons. In the kitchen there are always available copies of 3 volumes: tea, dessert and dining room. The first 2 options are used if a drop is required of the ingredient, but the last can be measured even more, up to a kilogram (although it does not reach this point, most often in this case they use glasses).
Not everyone will remember how much a tablespoon of flour weighs in grams, but absolutely all the housewives, often engaged in baking, know that there are 6 of them in a standard glass with a slide. After all, it is with the help of a spoon that this bulk product is most conveniently collected from a tray, bag or box where it is stored.
For most ingredients, a tablespoon without a slide holds about 15 to 20 grams, and with a slide - one and a half times more. Naturally, products with a lower density weigh less, but the difference will not be significant (no more than 10-15%), so if accuracy is not too important, then you can use this scale. As for the teaspoon, in most cases 5 grams of the product is placed in it (if the spoon is without a slide). Dessert also holds, on average, about 10-12 grams. If you remember only 3 of these values, then any components will not be difficult to translate from grams to the number of spoons. And then you can not bother with the scales, because measuring the required amount of product with a spoon is much easier and more practical.