Such problems often happen when you urgently need to cook something new for lunch according to a strict recipe, but there are either no scales, or the battery is “dead.” In such a situation, you should not get lost, since the kitchen has various cutlery and objects with the help of which the problem of determining the weight or volume of various products can always be solved. For example, housewives often use a glass or a tablespoon and a teaspoon for this. It is only important to know how much of what they hold. And special tables of measures and weights will help with this, which you need to focus on. You won't remember much by heart. Most often, a tablespoon is used, so let’s talk about it, which acts as a kind of “scale.”
Bulk products
It should be noted that a tablespoon as a measure of weight for various substances differs little in accuracy from the same mechanical or electronic devices that exist in a modern kitchen. To determine the weight of bulk products, two quantities are used:
- when the spoon is filled only to the brim (without a slide);
- when the maximum amount of food (with a slide) is placed in the spoon.
The cook himself chooses how to measure the required amount of a particular product, filling the spoon with a heap or not. It depends on exactly how many grams he needs for the dish he is preparing. Sometimes it is more convenient to take the weight with a slide for calculation, and in other cases - without it.
Table of the weight ratio of bulk products contained in a tablespoon, in grams.
| Products | Weight in st.heaped spoon (g) | Weight in st. level spoon (g) |
| Sugar/Powdered sugar | 25/30 | 20/25 |
| Citric acid in crystals | 16 | 12 |
| Rock salt (coarse) | 30 | 25 |
| Fine salt (extra) | 28 | 22 |
| Round rice | 20 | 16 |
| Dry buckwheat | 25 | 20 |
| Millet | 25 | 20 |
| Wheat flour | 25 | 20 |
| Baking soda | 28 | 22 |
| Ground coffee | 20 | 15 |
| Gelatin granules | 15 | 10 |
| Starch | 30 | 20 |
| Semolina | 25 | 20 |
| Cocoa powder | 25 | 20 |
| Hercules | 14 | 10 |
| Ground crackers | 15 | 12 |
Liquid and viscous products
Products in liquid form are measured in either milliliters or grams. Both of these measures can be found in culinary recipes. In a tablespoon, the volume (ml) and weight (g) of many popular liquids in cooking have long been determined and tabulated. The hostess can only look into them and use this cutlery to measure the required amount for her dish - be it in milliliters or grams.
Here is a table of the content of liquids and viscous products in a tablespoon in grams. It will not be possible to pour liquid into a spoon above its edges, so the maximum amount of food is limited to these edges. But some viscous ingredients can be placed in heaps, for example, thick honey or homemade high-fat sour cream. This is why the table below shows two weights for viscous products.
Table of the weight ratio of liquid and viscous products contained in a tablespoon, in grams.
| Products | grams in tablespoon | Maximum total number of products |
| Water | 18 | — |
| Raw milk | 20 | — |
| Condensed milk | 28 | — |
| Vinegar | 15 | — |
| Melted butter | 17 | — |
| Melted margarine | 15 | — |
| Vegetable oil (sunflower) | 17 | — |
| Liquid fat | 20 | — |
| Liquid jam (average) | 35 | — |
| The jam is thick (on average) | 45 (without slide) | up to 60 |
| Liquid honey | 35 | — |
| Honey is thick | 50 (no heap) | up to 70 |
| Heavy cream | 30 (no heap) | up to 50 |
| Thick sour cream | 30 (no heap) | up to 50 |
| Low-fat sour cream | 25 | — |
| Mayonnaise | 20 (no heap) | 30 |
| Tomato paste | 30 (no heap) | 40 |
| Cottage cheese (on average) | 20 (no heap) | 35 |
It should be said that a standard measuring tablespoon is taken to be a product whose ladle is 7 cm long and the width of its widest part is 4 cm. This is the kind of spoon that is mentioned in cooking. If someone does not know whether there is a standard spoon at home, then you can take any other and measure it by placing or pouring the product into some vessel whose volume is known. By counting the number of spoons needed to fill the container, you can easily find out how much product in grams fits in 1 spoon of this type.
Quick measurement of popular products
Below are tables for quickly determining the required number of tablespoons of the most popular products in the kitchen, depending on their possible weight in the recipe.
Salt
| Grams | Required number of tablespoons |
| 25 | 1 without a slide (l/g) |
| 30 | 1 with a slide (s/g) |
| 40 | 1 l/g + 1/2 s/g |
| 50 | 2 l/g |
| 60 | 2 s/g |
| 70 | 1 l/g + 1 s/g + 1/2 s/g |
| 80 | 2 l/g + 1 s/g |
| 100 | 4 l/g |
| 130 | 4 l/g + 1 s/g |
| 150 | 6 l/g |
| 200 | 8 l/g |
Sugar
| Grams | Required number of tbsp. spoons |
| 20 | 1 b/g |
| 30 | 1 b/g + 1/2 b/g |
| 60 | 3 b/g |
| 70 | 2 s/g + 1 b/g |
| 75 | 3 s/g |
| 80 | 4 b/g |
| 90 | 2 b/g + 2 s/g |
| 100 | 4 s/g |
| 120 | 4 s/g + 1 b/g |
| 130 | 4 b/g + 2 s/g |
| 150 | 6 s/g |
| 160 | 6 s/g + 1/2 b/g |
| 180 | 9 b/g |
| 200 | 10 b/g |
| 250 | 10 s/g |
| 300 | 12 s/g |
| 350 | 14 s/g |
Flour
| Grams | Required amount of st. spoons |
| 25 | 1 s/g |
| 40 | 2 b/g |
| 50 | 2 s/g |
| 60 | 3 b/g |
| 70 | 2 s/g + 1 b/g |
| 90 | 2 b/g + 2 s/g |
| 100 | 4 s/g |
| 120 | 4 s/g + 1 b/g |
| 125 | 5 s/g |
| 130 | 4 b/g + 2 s/g |
| 150 | 6 s/g |
| 160 | 6 s/g + 1/2 b/g |
| 170 | 6 s/g + 1 b/g |
| 180 | 9 b/g |
| 200 | 8 s/g (or 10 b/g) |
| 220 | 8 s/g + 1 b/g |
| 250 | 10 s/g |
| 300 | 12 s/g |
| 400 | 16 s/g |
| 500 | 20 s/g |
Butter
Let's give data on melted butter. In solid form, you can put quite a lot of butter in a spoon.
| Grams | Required number of tbsp. spoons |
| 25 | 1,5 |
| 50 | 3 |
| 100 | 6 |
| 150 | 9 |
| 200 | 12 |
Vegetable oil
| Grams | Required number of tbsp. spoons |
| 25 | 1,5 |
| 50 | 3 |
| 100 | 6 |
| 150 | 9 |
| 200 | 12 |
Honey
Here it is better to give indicators for a thick product.
| Grams | Required number of tbsp. spoons |
| 50 | 1 |
| 100 | 2 |
| 150 | 3 |
| 200 | 4 |
| 300 | 6 |
Semolina
| Grams | Required number of tbsp. spoons |
| 20 | 1 b/g |
| 30 | 1 b/g + 1/2 b/g |
| 40 | 2 b/g |
| 50 | 2 s/g |
| 60 | 3 b/g |
| 65 | 2 b/g +1 s/g |
| 70 | 2 s/g + 1 b/g |
| 75 | 3 s/g |
| 80 | 4 b/g |
| 90 | 2 s/g + 2 b/g |
| 100 | 4 s/g |
| 130 | 4 b/g + 2 s/g |
| 150 | 6 s/g |
| 160 | 6 s/g + 1/2 b/g |
| 180 | 9 b/g |
| 200 | 8 s/g |
| 250 | 10 s/g |
| 270 | 10 s/g + 1 b/g |
| 300 | 12 s/g |
Sour cream
Let's take the description of fatty sour cream of good thickness.
| Grams | Required number of tbsp. spoons |
| 100 | 2 s/g |
| 120 | 4 b/g |
| 150 | 3 s/g (or 5 b/g) |
| 200 | 4 s/g |
| 250 | 5 s/g |
Vinegar
It is not always possible to measure vinegar with only a tablespoon. A tablespoon contains 15 grams. In some cases, you can help with a teaspoon containing 5 grams of vinegar. Let's use this in the following table.
| Grams | Required number of spoons |
| 10 | 2 teaspoons (tsp.) |
| 20 | 1 tbsp. l. + 1 tsp. |
| 25 | 1 tbsp. l. + 2 tsp. |
| 30 | 2 tbsp. l. |
| 40 | 2 tbsp. l. + 2 tsp. |
| 50 | 3 tbsp. l. + 1 tsp. |
| 55 | 3 tbsp. l. + 2 tsp. |
| 60 | 4 tbsp. l. |
| 70 | 4 tbsp. l. + 2 tsp. |
| 75 | 5 tbsp. l. |
| 80 | 5 tbsp. l. + 1 tsp. |
| 90 | 6 tbsp. l. |
| 100 | 6 tbsp. l. + 2 tsp. |
| 150 | 10 tbsp. l. |
| 200 | 13th century l. + 1 tsp. |
Starch
| Grams | Required number of tbsp. spoons |
| 20 | 1 b/g |
| 30 | 1 s/g |
| 40 | 2 b/g |
| 50 | 1 s/g + 1 b/g |
| 60 | 2 s/g |
| 70 | 2 b/g + 1 s/g |
| 75 | 3 b/g + 1/2 b/g |
| 100 | 5 b/g |
| 200 | 10 b/g (or 6 b/g + 1 b/g) |
Mayonnaise
| Grams | Required number of tbsp. spoons |
| 20 | 1 b/g |
| 30 | 1 s/g |
| 50 | 1 b/g + 1 s/g |
| 80 | 2 s/g + 1 b/g |
| 100 | 5 b/g |
| 120 | 4 s/g (or 5 b/g) |
| 125 | 3 s/g + 1 b/g + 1/2 s/g |
| 130 | 4 s/g + 1/2 b/g |
| 150 | 5 s/g |
| 200 | 10 b/g |
| 250 | 11 b/g + 1 b/g |
Water
This liquid, just like vinegar, will sometimes have to be measured with a tablespoon together with a teaspoon. In a teaspoon, its weight is 5.5 grams, and in a tablespoon - 17-18.
| Grams | The required number of spoons |
| 40 | 2 tbsp. + 1 tsp. |
| 50 | 3 tbsp. |
| 60 | 3 tbsp. + 2 tsp. |
| 100 | 6 tbsp. |
100 and 200 grams is ...
Now, based on the data obtained, you can make a table of the number of spoons for some products that housewives often use to prepare porridge and other dietary products based on 100 and 200 grams. Many popular products have already been discussed above, the tables contain information in relation to 100 and 200 grams, so they are not included in the table below.
Products
| How many tbsp. in 100 g contains | How many tbsp. 200 g contains | Buckwheat |
| 4 s/g (5 b/g) | 8 s/g (10 b/g) | Rice |
| 5 s/g (6 b/g) | 10 s/g (12 b/g) | Oatmeal |
| 6 s/g (8 b/g) | 12 s/g (16 b/g) | Millet |
| 4 s/g (5 b/g) | 8 s/g (10 b/g) | Cottage cheese |
| 3 s/g (5 b/g) | 6 s/g (10 b/g) | Flakes |
| 7 s/g (10 b/g) | 14 s/g (20 b/g) | Milk |
| Yeast | 5 | 10 |
| 8 s/g (12 b/g) | 17 s/g (25 b/g) | All the data provided contains useful information for those who like to master new dishes to diversify the family menu, but especially, of course, for beginner cooks. Such people usually learn to cook from cookbooks, so they try to strictly adhere to the recipe and the weight ratios of the products in it. You can print out the information and put the sheets with tables in your house book so that you always have it at hand. |
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100 and 200 grams are...
Now, based on the data obtained, it is possible to create a table of the number of spoons for some products that housewives often use to prepare cereals and other dietary products per 100 and 200 grams. Many popular products have already been discussed above; the tables contain information in relation to 100 and 200 grams, so they are not included in the table below.