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How practice you lot measure out flour if you are using cups? Dip & Sweep or Spoon & Sweep? Yous can learn how to catechumen cups to grams. Baking conversion chart and Fahrenheit to Celsius conversion chart are besides included!

Measuring cups and measuring spoons on a wooden surface.

I love working with grams which I believe gives accurate results. Digital calibration is my everything in the kitchen. In pastry, scaling is extremely of import. If we utilise likewise much or less flour than needed, the taste and the texture of the cookies, cakes, etc. volition exist unlike.

I use a digital scale. Nonetheless, in my recipes, you can also notice cup conversions as many people utilise them. For those who use cups, in order to have the same results, it is a must to know which method I employ while measuring the flour.

For some people one cup flour= 120 grams, for others 1 cup=140 grams. It is because of the dissimilar methods people are using. If I tin can't use my digital scale for some reason which is very very rare (allow's say I need to supersede my calibration's bombardment and I don't have it at that moment!), I use dip&sweep method.

Dip & Sweep Method

If you apply cup measurements, you should keep your flour in a large jar, and then you tin easily dip your loving cup into the flour.

Offset I stir the flour to aerate it. Then I dip my cup into the flour, without shaking the cup I overfill information technology. Aerating the flour and not shaking the cup are the keys to the right measurement.

If nosotros shake the cup or forget to aerate the flour while we are filling, more needed volition be packed and measured and this is what we don't desire.

Measuring cup that is overfilled with flour, scraper on the front.

Afterward I overfill it, Isweep the excess flour off the elevation with my spatula. You can employ the back of a knife besides.

Sweeping the excess of flour from the measuring cup with a leveler.

That's all! I come with 140 grams.

Flour in a measuring cup on a digital food scale.

Dip & Sweep or Spoon & Sweep?

Some people are comfortable with the spoon&sweep method where you spoon the flour into your cup instead of dipping your loving cup into the flour.

I've realized that most people who use this method accept 1 cup flour somewhere between 115 grams and 125 grams. I tried that method but I am non close to those numbers.

Before long, I tried both methods,dip and sweep method is more than accurate(at least for me). You can't go wrong with this method if you exercise the steps carefully. This is a safe method. I would like to repeat the steps:

stir the flour to aerate information technology,
dip your loving cup into the flour,
without shaking your cup,overfill it,
sweep the excess off the top with a spatula or the dorsum of a knife.

That's information technology!

You come upward with 140 grams.

If you withal insist on using the spoon&sweep method,

to reach my 1 cup flour measurement, you should add 2 tablespoons of flour into your 1 cup flour. (I assume spoon&sweep method as 120 grams as it is generally accepted that way, and so the difference is 20 grams=2 tablespoons)

Flour in a measuring cup on a digital food scale.

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Stir the flour to aerate information technology. Dip your measuring cup(1 cup) into the flour, without shaking the loving cup overfill information technology. Aerating the flour and not shaking the cup are the keys to the correct measurement.
Sweep the excess flour off the summit with a spatula or with the dorsum of a pocketknife.
That'due south all! When you use a calibration information technology should show 140 grams.

It will be easy to dip your cup into the flour if you keep your flour in a big jar.

Cup to Grams Conversions

Below you tin can find my loving cup to grams conversions. (I rounded some ingredients. For example, ½ cup chocolate-brown carbohydrate= 110 grams instead of 112,five grams.)

I'll update the list during my blog journey. Yous may realize that I write powdered carbohydrate only in tablespoons because my powdered carbohydrate cup conversion is very different than people who utilize cup conversions for powdered sugar.

I write my recipes in grams and cups even for liquids (I include the ml option for those who may desire to use information technology). If other recipes call for milliliters (and if I can't convert into grams easily), I utilize a glass liquid measuring cup.

I never wait at the measuring cup below or above the centre level but merely thecenter level.So if you need, you should bend downwardly to exist at the eye levelto brand the correct measurement.

I volition give yous a lilliputian ratio that I call back yous may like if you adopt using grams even for the liquids.

When a recipe calls ml for water, y'all can use the exact amount in grams for h2o. But this is not the example for milk:

240 ml whole milk= 247 g (updated on March 21,2021)

If you multiply the ml milk corporeality by 1.03, yous can notice its gram equivalent. You don't demand to utilise your liquid measuring cup, what you need is a little math (1000 ml whole milk*i.03=1030 grams) 😉