Modern housewives love to experiment and learn from the more skilled craftswomen. Having decided to cook an unusual new dish according to the recipe found, you often have to measure the right amount of ingredients using improvised means, because not everyone has a kitchen scale. A glass is an indispensable assistant in this matter, any housewife has it in any kitchen. But not everyone knows how much of an ingredient will fit in it. In this article, we consider in detail: 1/2 cup is how many milliliters or grams.
Dry and bulk substances
If you decide to cook pastries or dessert, you will definitely need sugar and flour. To prepare side dishes and cereals, you need to measure out cereals: rice, buckwheat, semolina and oatmeal. Consider even such exotic options when we need half a glass of salt or powdered sugar. If there is 250 g of granulated sugar in a full faceted glass, then 125 g in a half fraction. Salt and cereals such as buckwheat and rice are measured in the same way.
Flour weighs lighter, then 1/2 cup - how much? We answer: 90 grams, since the whole glass is only 180 g. Sifted flour will weigh 75 g. Powdered sugar is more weightless, so half the content will be only 60 g. For example, nuts chopped into crumbs weighing half a cup weigh 50 g, and crushed to flour - 40 g.
Liquids
1/2 cup is how many milliliters? If you take a faceted glass with a rim along the upper border, then it holds 250 ml to the edges. Accordingly, half of this is 125 ml. Assuming an error or filling the container, it is not up to the rim that it takes into account that 1/2 cup of water is 120 ml. And in the event that the faceted vessel does not have a rim, its volume is only 200 ml, in proportion to which half will be 100 ml. All liquids used in cooking and preparing any dishes have a similar density, so milk and sour-milk products, vegetable oil are measured out like plain water.
Unconventional use
Using a glass, you can measure those products that we usually don’t put in it. For example, a half-capacity butter weighs 120 g. What does it mean 1/2 cup honey, jam or corn syrup? This is as much as 160 g of a sweet and healthy product. So, in half a glass is placed:
- 115 g peeled peas;
- 95 g of raisins;
- 75 g of fresh strawberries;
- 35 g of oatmeal;
- 105 g of buckwheat;
- 100 g semolina;
- 80 g of cornmeal;
- 82.5 g of poppy;
- 70 g of fresh raspberries;
- 115 g of melted margarine;
- 150 g of condensed milk;
- 60 g of milk powder;
- 85 g peeled hazelnuts or almonds;
- 175 g of berry puree;
- 60 g breadcrumbs;
- 150 g of tomato puree;
- 30 g of wheat flakes;
- 90 g of black currant;
- 6 egg yolks or 5.5 proteins;
- 3 eggs without shell.
How to determine the fullness of the glass
We will not argue whether the glass is half full or half empty. The main question: how to determine that a product occupies exactly 50% of the total volume? If the glass is ordinary, transparent and faceted, without notches, there is only one way out - to orient yourself “by the eye”. It should be remembered that the shape of this object is lower from below than from above, so the middle of the volume will be above the midline of height. Whatever the glass is in shape, simple or with curly, diamond-shaped faces, its capacity is 200 ml. Recall that for a faceted container with a border, this volume is reached exactly on this line.
It is much easier to use a special measuring cup, on which the divisions are applied, measuring the capacity with a certain step. There are also such instances that have several graduations for various products. You can make your life easier by drawing marks with a marker on one of the glasses that are suitable for measuring, but it’s much more convenient to immediately get a kitchen scale. So you will no longer need to frantically count, 1/2 cup is how much.