How To Double 3/4 Teaspoon

How to measure 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 and 1 teaspoon plus 1 tablespoon without a measuring spoon. Exactly how to measure ingredients with just your hand. — Pin information technology for future reference!

Wondering how to measure 1/eight teaspoon when you don't have a measuring spoon that size? Or whatsoever other measurement that y'all don't have a measuring spoon for? Hither'due south how to practice it.

When she needed a teaspoon or less of something, my grandmother always "measured" information technology in the palm of her paw. My female parent endemic measuring spoons and taught me to use them, but almost never used them herself — once more, merely measuring in her paw. And over fourth dimension, I learned their "eyeball estimates."

I'm sure, when yous read some of these, you're going to call up "that can't be correct." Before writing this, I checked the measures confronting actual measuring spoons. Certain enough, mom was right.

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i/8 teaspoon	1 pinch using your thumb, index and middle finger
1/4 teaspoon	2 of the in a higher place pinches OR cup your mitt similar yous were holding h2o in it; pour a mound into the middle of your hand about the size of a nickel
one/2 teaspoon	a mound most the size of a quarter in your cupped hand
1 teaspoon	a mound near i/4-inch all around larger than a quarter in your cupped hand OR an "eating" teaspoon about half full
1 tablespoon	fill a soup spoon so it is very slightly rounded up OR turn a 12-ounce pop or beer tin can upside downwardly (wash it!) – that depression in the bottom holds exactly 1 tablespoon

Even if you don't intend to use these regularly, you might want to print this out and proceed it in example you lose a measuring spoon and it's a while earlier you lot can buy another one . . . or you are in a metric country!

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