How to measure the weight of buckwheat, specified in grams?
The popularity of buckwheat is very high, and every day hundreds of thousands of houses cook it.But those who first begin to join this product, or even to cooking in general, may experience certain problems. It can be difficult to measure the exact amount of the product according to the recipe, if there are no scales or they are out of order.
Measure the weight of cereals at home
Faceted glass
Using this cutlery, it is very easy to measure the right amount of dry cereals. You do not even need to take into account the exact weight in grams. It is enough to pay attention that 3 standard portions is 1 glass (200 g). Two people have enough for the skillful preparation and half of this amount. But in order to get the most intelligent calculation of the preparation itself, of course, this information is not enough.
A standard faceted glass with a rim on top has a capacity of 250 cubic meters. cm. If you fill it up to the rim, you can put 210 grams of filberts, and if you bring the styling only to the horizontal band, the amount of cereal will be exactly 200 grams. For the so-called passive performance is less - 160 and 155 g, respectively.
It is worth remembering that the exact mass of cereals may vary slightly depending on the humidity (the easiest - after calcination and thorough drying).
Plastic cup
Faceted glass tank looks, of course, much better than plastic counterpart. But the latter is easier and cheaper, is more common in kitchens. The mass of cereals stacked in a glass depends on its volume. For the most popular variety of the product - Jadri - the indicators are as follows:
- 210 g of cereals are placed in a volume of 250 ml;
- a glass of 200 ml can store no more than 170 g;
- and if its capacity is limited to 100 ml, it will be possible to place only 85 g of buckwheat there.
Tablespoon
But many people shift buckwheat groats into a pan, a pan, not with glasses, but with spoons. In a tablespoon filled without a tubercle, there is approximately 19 g of the product. Given this, you can fill with a spoon any capacity of unknown capacity, and then make the simplest calculation. But we must remember that the mass of cereals in the scooping part can vary from 17 to 23 g. It is affected by moisture, variety, and how actively buckwheat is scooped; however, in the first approximation, at least 50, at least 260 g of product with acceptable accuracy for cooking can be selected.
How to measure a portion of boiled buckwheat?
All that has just been said applies only to the dry product purchased on the market or in the store. But after cooking, the mass of the dish that fits in the same containers changes noticeably. Let it be required that it turned out 100 grams in a plate. Determine the right amount of porridge is quite possible without the use of scales. In some cases, do use ... appearance - it is enough to imagine how the necessary mass of porridge looks, and compare it with some object that is accessible to the eye.
However, not all so simple. Photographs, even those published in leading journals or posted on reputable sites, are unsuitable for accurate conclusions. Differences in illumination, color reproduction, different background, angle for shooting, quality of printing and image file, features of perception, “not such” dishes - all this greatly hinders.
But amateur and experienced chefs have another way to solve the problem. To the aid come the same cutlery that is used to measure dry food.
To measure 150, 250, 300 g or any other amount, you can use the most common tablespoons and teaspoons. Weighing the cereal boiled in water in this way, it is absolutely impossible to make a “slide”. Despite its seemingly small size, this protrusion can distort the estimate. A teaspoon contains 5 ml of boiled buckwheat, and a tablespoon contains 15 ml. Now it only remains to find out what is the mass of 1 ml.
You can learn more about how to measure the weight of buckwheat, specified in grams, in the next video.
