Recipes of many culinary dishes demand accuracy at measurement of ingredients. Liquid or bulk stocks can be measured by means of a spoon or a volumetric glass. But how to be with firm products, such how cheese?
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When you face need to measure a certain quantity of products, and there are no kitchen scales near at hand, it is necessary to go on cunnings. How, for example, it is possible to measure 100 grams of cheese?
The standard pack of processed cheese (for example, "Friendship") weighs about 100 grams. Remember such curd cake, mentally take it in hands, feel its weight and volume. Remembered? Now try to cut off the same piece of cheese. Processed cheese and a hard cheese have approximately equal density so if you are able to cut off a piece of cheese of the size of packing of processed cheese, receive approximately hundred-gram piece.
The task becomes simpler if you approximately know how many the big piece from which you should cut off 100 grams weighs. Everything is elementary: from a piece weighing 400 grams it is necessary to separate a quarter, from 300-gram – a third, from 250 gram – slightly less than a third. If these ways don't suit you, try to find houses a subject which weight you know for sure. All factory products surely contain information on weight on the packing. Consider that net weight means the weight of the product unpacked, and weight gross is a total weight of a product and packing. These values can significantly differ if packing heavy. Now, when you have a reference hundred-gram sample, you can measure a piece of cheese, being guided by it. Besides, you remember that 1 milliliter of water weighs 1 gram. You can use a measured cup to measure 100 grams, and then to cut off the necessary piece of cheese, being guided by water weight. If you have no measured bowl, take a usual glass: its standard volume is 200 milliliters.
Scales the hands
If you often face need to measure the weight of products, but you don't want to spend money for kitchen scales, use an antiquated method and make 100-gram preparation which will always be near at hand. Sew a sack from dense fabric and fill up in it 100 grams of table salt, any grain or any other substance. The main thing that this filler wasn't perishable. Naturally, you can make several sacks of different weight – for example, 50, 100, 200 and 500 grams. You can determine the approximate weight of products, lifting these sacks. And it is possible to make process of measurement by even more exact. For this purpose take a usual hanger, pick up a sack of necessary weight by one end, and on other end hang up a package and put in it a product which needs to be weighed. When both ends of the improvised scales are counterbalanced – you achieved the objective and cut off a piece of the necessary weight.