Measuring cup - precision in cooking

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

The most "delicious" art is cooking. And it consists of two main points - accuracy and inspiration. Moreover, it is accuracy that is most important at the initial stage. Agree, only an experienced person who performs a certain operation many times can cook “by eye”. A novice cook needs a recipe book indicating the exact amount of ingredients needed. This is where various devices come to the rescue, the most important of which is a measuring cup.

Measuring cup is designed specifically to measure the amount of food needed to prepare a dish. It is always present in the kitchen of every housewife, measuring milliliters and grams of various liquids and bulk products. Measuring cups are very diverse in appearance, according to the material of manufacture and graduation. It can be a large jug up to 1.5-2 liters in volume or a small beaker of 20-50 ml. It all depends on what and where this utensil is used for.

The material from which the measuring cup is made is very important. Now it's mostly plastic. There are also products made of glass, metal and ceramics.

The main thing when choosing a material is ease of use (clear and welldistinguishable graduation), strength (suddenly slip out of your hands?) and the ability to withstand high and low temperatures (when we measure a hot product or put it in the freezer). For a serious cook, who is used to working quickly and accurately, the ability of the glass to "lie down in the hand" is important.

The types of measuring utensils differ in a wide variety according to the way they are used. For liquids, a measuring cup with a clear graduation in milliliters is usually used. Its optimal size is 250-500 ml. Often, on the opposite side of the dishes, the units of measurement of bulk solids - grams, milligrams - are also applied. This glass is versatile. With it, you will measure the required amount of both liquid and bulk product, and it will remain the only necessary measuring container in your kitchen.

When preparing various cocktails, a measuring cup is used with two containers of different volumes (20 and 40 g), fastened together with bottoms. It is called "jigger" (jigger) and is an important tool in the work of the bartender.

Recently, our housewives are more and more fond of the tradition that came from abroad to measure the volume of various products with cups ("cup"). This measure is also present in the recipes of various European and American cuisines, so advanced cooks must have in their arsenal a set of measuring cups of various sizes. The volume of a standard American cup is 240 ml, European - 10 ml more. A set is most often made up of one standard cup and three smaller ones.sizes are 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4 cups.

Measuring cups for every taste are widely and varied on the domestic market. These are, first of all, dishes from Russian manufacturers (Polymerbyt and others), dishes from China, as well as Italy (Regent Inox), Turkey (Ucsan) and the Netherlands (Rosti Mepal).

Accuracy or inspiration? Which of them to put in the first place, everyone decides for himself. It is important to observe the measure in this proportion. Therefore, a measuring cup will come in handy in any case, whatever the choice.