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Kitchen measures: what a tablespoon weighs

A level tablespoon of flour is 10 g, sugar 15 g, oil 12 g. For everyday cooking memory is enough, not the scales.

  • 1 tbsp (level): flour 10 g · sugar 15 g · salt 15 g · butter 15 g · oil 12 g · honey 20 g · oats 8 g · semolina 12 g · cornflour 10 g
  • 1 tsp (level): salt 5 g · sugar 5 g · baking powder 3 g · spices 2–3 g
  • 1 cup (coffee cup) ≈ 150 ml · 1 glass ≈ 200 ml · 1 pinch = what fits between two fingers
  • 1 sachet baking powder = 15 g (for 500 g flour) · 1 sachet vanilla sugar = 8 g · 1 cube fresh yeast = 42 g (for 1 kg flour) · 1 sachet dried yeast = 7 g
  • 1 medium onion ≈ 80 g · 1 garlic clove ≈ 5 g · 1 medium potato ≈ 100 g · 1 egg (M) ≈ 55 g · 1 bunch parsley ≈ 30 g