I’ve been looking at instructions on the back of boxes of imported foods here, and everything is in tablespoons and such. Most conversions are pretty straightforward, but I need to know how many grams per tablespoon of butter? How many grams per quarter cup?
UPDATE:
OK, for those of you with a stick of margarine or butter, find on the package where it says how many grams of the product there are, divide accordingly, and give me the number of grams per tablespoon of what have you. It wouldn’t be a problem except that the dumbwads who make butter can’t agree whether to measure it by volume or mass. But I need this information to cook.
OK, I’m not good at math, but from The Joy of Cooking, it says that 1 gram is 0.32 ounces, and that 1 ounce is 28.35 grams. That is metric mass weight, not fluid. 1/4 cup is 2 fluid ounces (that’s liquids, like milk). Does that help?
And 1/4 c. of butter is half a stick, or 4 ounces.
Note that a cup of something in Japan is 200cc, or one fifth of a litre. I don’t know about US, but in Australia a cup is 250cc, which throws people off.
A teaspoon is considered 5cc, and tablespoon is 15cc. I don’t think you can measure something that’s in tablespoons or teaspoons by weight unless they are fluid close to water. They are a volume measurement.
Finally, a cc is cubic centimetres = 1/1000 of a litre, if you don’t know already.
OK, I finally got smart and looked at the box of butter. 1 tablespoon is 14 g and 1 pound is 454 g. Wish I’d thought of that sooner; sorry!
Brain… dizzy… need… FOOOODDDD.