Did you ever wonder how many eggs do you actually need when a recipe will call for just one cup of egg whites for example? How many eggs can you actually fit in a cup of egg whites? This is just one question about eggs that we tackle in this article. You can usually use …
It happened to all of us: To find a new recipe but not know how much or how many of each ingredient you should buy from the store and use. Some recipes will call for “the kernels from two ears of corn” while others will require you to use “1 cup of corn kernels”. This …
You might have stumbled upon recipes that talk about “half a cup of sliced celery” or one whole cup of chopped celery”, but many celery stalks would you need to actually fill a cup? To help you understand how much celery you will actually have to buy, we did some experiments and found the exact …
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You might have noticed those recipes that call either for 1 cup of sliced sweet potatoes, one cup of cubed sweet potatoes, or mashed sweet potatoes. But how many sweet potatoes will you need to fill a cup? To make reading recipes and ultimately cooking as a whole easier especially for starters, we have made …
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You may have noticed that there are some recipes that will call for the zest of a lemon, or the juice of one lemon. But how much juice is in a lemon exactly? What is zest and how much zest can you find in a lemon? These are just a few of the questions that …
It might be very hard to tell exactly how many slices of bread are in 1 cup or how many bread crumbs are in one slice of bread, especially if you’re new to cooking or the recipe is new to you. As always, we come to your help and do the muscle work ourselves. To …
It might have happened to you as well, to want to try a new recipe and not know exactly how much of each ingredient you should buy. Some recipes call for the usage of a certain weight of grapes, like for example 6 ounces, while some call for a certain quantity, like 2 cups. And …
When trying to cook using garlic, you will stumble upon some recipes that call for 1/4 cups ff minced garlic or 2 cloves of garlic. But how exactly do you figure out how many cloves are in the garlic bulb? We did the hard work and experiments ourselves to make cooking and reading recipes a …
While cooking, one often encounters recipes that require ginger. However, it can be hard to determine how much of the ingredient is needed for a recipe because there are no measurements given in ounces or grams. In order to help make deciding easier when buying groceries and making dishes at home, we conducted an experiment …
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