Hey everyone! It's Natasha of natashaskitchen.com. Today I'm going to show you
how to measure your ingredients for cooking. Whether it's dry ingredients or
wet ingredients, I'm gonna share all of our tips and tricks. This is super
important to make sure all of your recipes are a success. So let's do this!
We start with tools of the trade, nothing fancy, inexpensive things that
you can get anywhere. So we've got our dry ingredients, so you're gonna use this
for things like flour sugar and then also thick wet ingredients like sour
cream, pretty much anything that you can level off the top. All right and then,
we've got our measuring spoons, you use these for dry or wet ingredients,
anything that calls for a spoon measurement, and I love these because
they're magnetic so they stay together. They've got two sides so you can use one
spoon for two things and they've got this narrow side that dips into the
spiced ingredients, these are awesome I'll leave a link below. You don't have
to wash all of them if you use one because there's no annoying ring and
then finally our wet ingredients measuring cups. You're going to use these
for anything that levels itself so when you get down to here, you're gonna see a
flatline. Okay, so let's get started. The first thing, the thing that gets measured
incorrectly most of the time is flour so you'll definitely need a dry ingredients
measuring cup and a spoon or a scoop. The most important thing is that you've got
a spoon your flour into the measuring cup like so, alright and then level it
off. Boom! Easy! Never, ever just shove your
measuring cup into there because it compacts the flour and you can get up to
25% too much flour. Okay, with sugar you can dip the measuring cup right into the
sugar. It doesn't matter because it's already compacted. We level off the top,
perfect measure. Now on to the brown sugar. This one's a little bit different
because a lot of recipes call for packed brown sugar, so you're going to take your
measuring cup and dunk it in here and you're going to compact the sugar into the
cup, just push it in there and the test of whether or not you did it right is
when you invert the sugar onto a plate it'll keep its form, just like that. All
right, now on to the measuring spoons. So you can use these for things like baking
powder, you can dip it right into there. Easy spices, same thing just get it in
the measuring spoon and scrape. And vanilla, just pour it till the top. All
right, now onto the liquid measuring cups. that's these guys right here. So this
kind of cup you can use for like, let's say we have a liquidy liquid, you're
will pour that in and get down to the level of the liquid. So I want half a cup
and I want to see that line right at the half cup. All right, there we go.
Now, as far as if you have some sticky ingredients like honey, molasses, corn,
syrup, anything like that, it's a good idea to use a nonstick cooking spray and
just spray the inside of your measuring cup. You don't need a bunch, just spray it
lightly and then same thing, get down to the level of your measuring cup
and watch it go in. So with that oil in the measuring cup it makes it really
easy to come right out of there. Look at this, watch this! This is awesome! You get
a lot less waste this way. My honey was a little thicker than usual today. All
right, that's pretty good. All right, so then we're also gonna use our dry
ingredients for thick ingredients like sour cream, Mayo, peanut butter, the
ingredients that don't level themselves. You're will put that into this kind of
measuring cup as well and then you can just level off the top back of a knife, a
straight edge, voila, and then finally we're going to weigh ingredients. Some
recipes call for weighed ingredients like fruit or chocolate is usually
weighed out. So you'll need a digital kitchen scale like this one. This is our
favorite. All right, so you're gonna put your bowl right on top and then hit zero,
that way you know you won't be measuring the bowl. Eight ounces, totally okay.
That's all there is to it. You're gonna be measuring like a boss. Thanks for
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