The basic difference between a teaspoon and a tablespoon is the amount that they can measure. The tablespoon is larger than the teaspoon but both measures volume. With this, it is understood that the teaspoon is used for liquid and dry ingredients in smaller amounts while the tablespoon is the standard measurement for ingredients needed…
Cups and quarts are two of the most basic units of measurement for cooking. Cups are usually used for dry ingredients while the quart is used mainly for liquid ingredients. Cups are generally used in measuring flour for baking and quart is often used for beer and milk. But how many cups are we referring…
Are you counting down for that much needed vacation leave? Or have you had those down moments when you just begin to wonder how many weeks there are in a year? If your answer lies in between these two or more, in this post, we will know just that. For starters, you must know that…
mL and ounce are units of measurement commonly used to measure volume capacity. Supermarket labels for liquid ingredients use mL while actual beverages in bottles usually use ounce. mL is not that complex but ounce is because it is divided between the dry ounce and the fluid ounce. For this matter, we need to clarify…
Grams and teaspoons are some of the most common units of measurements used specifically in dry ingredients. Because of this, it is very important to know the conversion values of teaspoons to grams and vice versa. Knowing this will be functional for two reasons. First, gram is the measurement used in packing dry ingredients in…
The fundamental difference between a cup and a pound is that the cup measures volume capacity while pound weighs the mass of a substance or an ingredient. Pound to cup is beneficial in many respects because supermarket labels for dry ingredients are expressed in pounds but the actual measurement used in cooking would require cups….
Mixing and matching units of measurement can be a real challenge if you do not know that, one, they differ in conversion values depending on where you are in the world and two, there are dry and liquid conversions. A cup in a pint and vice-versa is not an exception. So fundamentally, we must know…
Have you ever wondered how much you were drinking whenever you go out with friends at night to have shots? Yes, you heard that right. Shots are now considered as informal units of measurement to measure liquids specifically liquor and other alcoholic beverages. As an informal measurement, it is commonly expressed using fluid ounces since…
There is a famous elementary rhyme for pints in a gallon and many more. In a nutshell, it says that there are 16 cups, 8 pints and 4 quarts in a gallon. But today, our focus will be how many pints in a gallon. Both pints and gallons are commonly used in measuring liquid ingredients….
When talking about pounds to grams, one might automatically imagine the meat section of a grocery shop since this is where this conversion is mostly found. But grams and pounds are versatile units of measurement and they can be used at simply any ingredient whose weight needs to be known. The key to knowing how…