How many grams of liquid and loose products are there in the glass?

Banal household question about how much in a glassgram of a product, often torments housewives when they find a new interesting recipe in the culinary book, and the ingredients are indicated in it not in the facial glasses, table and teaspoons that are familiar to us, but, for example, in grams.

If you have kitchen scales in your arsenal, thenthe problem is solved by itself, but if they are not, then all this must be somehow translated into cups and spoons. Of course, it is also very convenient in everyday life to determine how many grams, in a measuring cup, if any. Especially if it has not one scale, but several, corresponding to the volume of the main frequently used ingredients, such as water, flour, sugar and salt.

With a hill or without?

Another couple of nuances: How full is the glass with liquid and how much with the loose product? With or without a slide, dry ingredients should be measured with a tablespoon? In all this we will try to understand now. The first thing that is worth remembering is that you need to fill the glasses and spoons completely with liquid, and pour loose products with a slide, while trying not to ram it and not to loosen it up. And for everything else there is a special table of the ratio of measures of volume and weight of products. It will also be convenient for the reverse recalculation in the case when it is more convenient not to spoil the glasses and spoons, but to measure the amount of dry components with the help of scales.

1 cup: how many grams in it?

So, it is important to remember that only in recipes,adapted for Russia, the glass means nothing more than a legendary Soviet faceted glass, whose history begins with a glass factory in Gus-Khrustalny on September 11, 1943, when the first copy of the assembly line came off the assembly line. Every inhabitant of the USSR was clearly sure that if it was filled with water to the brim, then 250 grams would go out, and if up to the "rim", then exactly 200. All the housewives knew how many grams of flour and sugar there were in the glass. They were sure that the full included about 150 grams of the first component, and "under the rim" - 120, the second, respectively, 200 and 160 grams. Detailed information on how many grams of cereals, mushrooms, honey, butter, milk and other products are contained in special tables for beginners, for example, here:

Gram in a glass of Russian, Americans and Europeans?

What else must be taken into account todaymistresses, so this is the home of the recipe. The fact is that in each country a glass, a cup, a mug is considered to be capacity of different volumes. For example, the standard American mug has 240 ml, the European one - 250 ml, the pedantic Britons have 284 grams in it, and the national Japanese cup contains no more than one "go," that is, 180 ml. Accurate information on how much a glass of grams is needed, as a rule, for novice cooks. Over time, experienced chefs do not particularly bother with the jewelry accuracy of the quantity of the product, but use their trouble-free system "by eye" and "on the teeth." The experience gained over the years allows them to determine the necessary consistency and the necessary proportions on their own.