# Measuring without a scale (spoons, glass)

> A tablespoon is 15 ml. A teaspoon is 5 ml. A standard glass is 200 ml, a bit less than a cup. Everything else follows.

## The essentials

A scale is useful in baking, where proportions matter. For everything else, a tablespoon, a teaspoon and a glass are enough, as long as you know a few equivalents.

## The one thing to know

A tablespoon is 15 ml. A teaspoon is 5 ml. A standard glass is 200 ml, a bit less than a cup. Everything else follows.

## The landmarks

- Liquids (water, milk, oil, stock): a tablespoon = 15 ml, a teaspoon = 5 ml, a glass = 200 ml, half a glass = 100 ml.
- Flour: a level tablespoon = about 10 g, a glass = 110 g.
- Sugar: a level tablespoon = about 15 g, a glass = 170 g.
- Raw rice: a glass = 170 g, that is for two to three people.
- Short pasta: a glass = about 100 g, that is one person.
- Butter: a knob = 5 g, a stick of European butter = 250 g, and the marks printed on the wrapper show 25 g each.
- A medium egg = 55 g.

## How long it takes

Nothing, once you know those three numbers.

## If it goes wrong

A liquid or a starch slightly over-measured is no problem, it evens out while cooking. A cake is different: if you are not sure of yourself, this is the moment to buy a scale, or to choose a recipe measured with a glass, like the yogurt cake, where the pot is the measure for everything.

## Make it tonight

Rice by absorption: one glass of rice, one and a half glasses of water, and you weighed nothing.

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Source : disheazy, https://disheazy.com/bases/measuring-without-a-scale