How to Measure Wet and Dry Ingredients - Kitchen Conundrums with Thomas Joseph

To ensure the best results in the kitchen, especially when baking, you need to learn how to measure correctly. While this seems like a simple task, many people are doing it wrong which can lead to kitchen mishaps. Thomas Joseph shows you how to properly measure everything from flour to strawberries.
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Sarah Carey is the editor of Everyday Food magazine and her job is to come up with the best ways to make fast, delicious food at home. But she's also a mom to two hungry kids, so the question "What's for dinner?" is never far from her mind -- or theirs, it seems! Her days can get crazy busy (whose don't?), so these videos are all about her favorite fast, fresh meals -- and the tricks she uses to make it all SO much easier.
How to Measure Wet and Dry Ingredients - Kitchen Conundrums with Thomas Joseph
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[@bubbletea3522]

who's here from a link from their teacher in food studies hahah :)

[@brandonjiao803]

me

[@cr_maninang6262]

Me lol

[@OneStepEdit]

omg lol, so am i

[@not_dead_yet9332]

iam in pain

[@Garbage-Bound-Filth]

oh wow, thats very relatable lol

[@helpfulnatural]

+Marion Sensei When a recipe says "3 cups powdered sugar, sifted", what that means is to measure first, then sift. When a recipe says 3 cups "sifted powdered sugar", this means you should sift the sugar first, then measure. The same would apply for flour or any other dry ingredient where sifting is called for.

[@seziawards3447]

YES

[@MrLinushka]

when i got a kitchen scale my life changed...they are cheap and soo convenient.... and you use less dishes!!!

[@yocampout]

***** agreed

[@taliahcougihlin689]

n u can be a drug dealer!!!

[@sirpercivalsmallcock-jones9585]

I have a set of measuring cups for American recipes, but being from the UK, I use a kitchen scale more often, as I find that measuring by weight rather than volume is far more accurate, and much less trouble (especially when it comes to measuring butter).

[@catherinekeller4230]

THANK YOU FOR THE TIPS...SO HELPFUL ESPECIALLY SINCE I'M A NOVICE BAKER!!!!!!🙄

[@a8514786]

Ooooor you can just weigh them. So much easier, more convenient, and exact amount every single time.

[@ulaB]

I will never understand why people use anything else than a scale.

[@carameldelights]

I'm from asian country but I used volume measurement all the time. It's easy and convenient. Cooking/baking supposed to be fun, why weigh things precisely when you can just scoop them right to the mixing bowl. Simple as that.

[@zee2348]

One is because is i don't have a kitchen scale yet.

[@robertoaguiar8082]

+Vivi an But weighting thing directly into the mixing bowl is also simple, more accurate, and environmental friendly (because you will not have to wash a lot of measuring cups/spoons). And (at least for me), less meassy (avoiding flour/sugar) spliting from the cups onto the working surface. I am really not trying to start sn argument here, but weighting thing is so easy and straighfoward.

[@robertoaguiar8082]

+Vivi an But on a side note, instead of fighting over the best way of measuring, why don't we concentrate on noticing how handsome/cute Thomas Joseph is! ;-)

[@TheDerpyMango3]

scale..........?¿

[@janeweller]

Titli Nihaan proved that measuring cups doesn't show the real volumes of products. She put a measuring cup on her scale and poured 300 grams of water what equals 300ml. The water level was below the 300ml mark on the measuring cup. When she poured some more water to bring its level to the mark on the cup, the scale showed that there's 320 grams of water. There are some recipes that don't need precision in volumes of wet and dry ingredients, but there are a lot of them that being precise when measuring ingredients is extremely crucial to get the perfect result and not end up with a total failure. Besides, what's even more important American cups are different than those that are used in Europe, Asia or Australia. This 10ml difference can cause a disaster in baking, especially when it comes to baking bread. That's why I and many other people consider using cups measurement as something absolutely unprofessional.

[@janeweller]

***** Where I live there aren't big differences between what's on the packet and the real weight of the product. Usually it's one to five grams more than the company declares. I noticed that when the recipes are in grams/ml the results are so much better. :)

[@rainstorm4207]

Please give us more lessons , i like how you explain things

[@fidottt]

this is why i hate recipes that use cups instead of grams...

[@erzsebets5328]

+fidottt I totally agree with you 😃.

[@Random-zk4kk]

Me too. Especially the pound cake, where people complains about caster suger yielding "too much sugar per cup"

[@tonydarmawan5783]

Agree

[@margui6224]

You can learn! Years ago I had to learn how to see the temperatures in Fahrenheit instead of Celsius when I moved out to this country.

[@TraceguyRune]

I hate when the instructions want you to add 1 dry cup of water, but you end up ruining the recipe by using a wet cup of water

[@vinabandong264]

Very helpful presentation! Thank you very much for sharing

[@vinabandong264]

Could I borrow this video and use it to my next lesson please

[@soratsukino8781]

This is going to help me a lot! Thanks :)

[@GlenAndFriendsCooking]

Worldwide #NotAllMeasuringCupsAreTheSame - so if the recipe is in 'cups' make sure you know what size cup.

[@n0tl4nc38]

that’s so overcomplicated 😭

[@n0tl4nc38]

why can’t America just have a normal measurement system

[@Panzbell]

Imperial measurements are freakin confusing!

[@JASRUTUBER]

I just bought those metal measuring cups from the martha stewart kitchen collection. :-)

[@sta_rlight5564]

The convention in the U.S. is this: If a dry ingredient is listed in ounces, it's a unit of weight and should be measured on a scale. If a wet ingredient is listed in ounces, it's fluid ounces and should be measured in a wet measuring cup. Chocolate chips, oats, flour, pasta, and rice are all things that would be listed in ounces (weight), while water, stock, milk, cream, honey, or oil would all be listed in fluid ounces (volume).

[@Hunnie_B]

Thanks so much for these great tips Thomas !

[@Melbnolan]

After ten years in Sydney I now only use weight not volume when measuring, its so much more accurate and really quite easy.

[@andrealacedonia9556]

Melbnolan Yes because it turns out the same all the time❣️

[@rutharlos9773]

thank you for very informative on how to measure correctly

[@normasanjose3338]

Great program chef Josef!. 👏👍great cooking tips

[@jaymerossannecabunoc2563]

pls do measuring dry ingredient from cup to grams?

[@lighttheoryllc4337]

salam sis, pic so cuute

[@jjeon5757]

Could you please reply the tips?I just need it in my assignment.Sml

[@giftedhands9492]

I believe this is what I needed to see! my pound cake on the inside didn't taste good but the outside did😔

[@LotusLady9]

Thank you for this helpful video!🌞

[@Lola-zy2cp]

I definitely love love love love your videos you explain everything fabulously. I have a question I'm having problems with the blue coloring every time I put the color on any mix that have eggs it turns greenish. I've tried gel coloring paste coloring and powder coloring. Do you have any recommendation?

[@shygirlnow2011]

Thanks so much. This was very useful info.

[@babyjoybarrameda2650]

this video is amazing my ambition in life is a Chef

[@idekanymore.5879]

Some youtubers when they measure and stuff they say milliliters or liters or something like that can you explain to me how much to make it perfectly like how much it's supposed to be

[@lefthandright01]

This showing my age, but in my career I work with both East and West Germans. (If you can even remember there was two different kinds.) The one thing they both did, despite the big wall dividing them, was they only used grams. After working with them I got into the habit and never looked back. It was a blessing when the cooking world moved to hyper modern cuisine where measures became extremely small and precise( E.G 1.2g Xanthum gum, 0.8g Lecithin powder, 2.6g Agar.) Simply stated, a recipe stating 1/4 of a 1/4 teaspoon would have never worked in those days. It needed to be metric, and it required highly precise measurements for the time.

[@normasanjose3338]

Good program👍👏

[@tjohnson8003]

can you do an episode on converting whole recipes into smaller recipes

[@MsAsb-zx4sr]

Such great tips

[@razelleermeno8722]

Good day, may I ask permission to use this video for my teaching demonstration. I'll put the source on my credits. Thank you.

[@JosephNinio]

Why don't you just weigh your ingredients? It is so much more accurate.

[@henri.witteveen]

Exactly

[@ivettehernandez4807]

not everybody has a scale

[@leon06010]

But still, everybody has a vast array of cups and these cups never give the same results. Right?

[@tadeulebeussa]

A scale is way less expensive of the amount of other tools that you need for measuring,and they will never be as precise!

[@elizaz3627]

My thoughts exactly!!!

[@chintuskp]

Thank you so much this is of great help.very thoughtful to have made this one

[@tchavorae]

This is very helpful, but I have no idea why I don't get it.

[@Sushiyrolls]

this is THE testimonial of inefficiency of American measuring system.

[@roslynlopez4746]

What brand of measuring cups did you use here? It looks like some of them are a nice solid seamless measure.

[@SamA10343]

very useful information!

[@hernandezkiyoko9164]

thanks for the tips !

[@Nicolas-zb9uw]

One day , I look to my brown sugar and it was hard as rock . I put a quarter of an apple in it , closed the bag and left it for a while . After maybe 3 to 4 hours , without een touching it , all the sugar I could take it easily with a spoon. I kept that brown sugar bag for weeks , after that day , and it kept to be smooth and easy to take with a spoon . SO , the apple trick works realy well. In France ,many housekeepers , now , have a measuring bowl with columns. At the top of the columns , one could read : farine ( flour ), riz ( rice , that one was hard to find ) , semoule (semolina ), sucre (sugar ) etc.... So , you put the ingredient in the transparent bowl like in a measuring cup and up to the horizontal line you need : 50 gr/ 100 gr/ 150 gr of whatever you are measuring.In some dessert, though , which needs to be very acurate, a scale will be needed since 50 gr of flour doesn't have always the same volume .The french bowl by volume for the dry ingredients in grams,can be find in kitchen speciality boutiques or large stores, probably even Amaz..... If you can , buy 2 or 3 pyrex cups for measuring liquid . It is useful when for the same cake , you need to measure ,milk , cream , honey , rhum , orange juice. You can prepared the 3 cups without washing in between .

[@munny_vrsx]

What about cups to gram?

[@fionawong_]

very useful thank you

[@Nzie]

I keep trying to figure out why people have to vent their spleen about cup measures all the time. We get it, weight is the most accurate-and when it really matters, we absolutely use it. But it's a bit rich to hear about keeping our own special system from Brits who are still using inches/feet/yards/miles and my personal favorite, stone (because 14lbs. really needed a special term), etc., as if we're some sort of idiotic rustics who need to be cured of our ignorance. For the average home baker making simple cakes, cookies, and the like, cups are adequate. No one's saying you have to use them; why do you care if we do?

[@HuyLy94]

Have you watched the video? Surely you can agree measuring with cups is ridiculously convoluted, you have to air the flour and pack the sugar for gods sake, not to mention the whole carelly spooning into a cup charade. If that recipe were in grams you just pour out what you need since volume of powders has nothing to do with mass. 100 grams of flour will always be 100 grams no matter how densely packed it is but 1 cup of flour can be up to 20% off depending on how you measured it.

[@odderlendsolvang3790]

@@HuyLy94 also measuring cups are Just as expensive.

[@cassandra25f]

Very helpful. Thank you so much!

[@Lenlenlen07]

Link from teachers class!!

[@chainuser7401]

sameeee

[@breewixom6179]

I learned to bake with cups and it's worked just fine. I've used my scale for when I divide recipes. My question, all my recipes (cookbooks) are in cup format, is there a quick and easy way to convert to weight? It seems like I'd have to make a table with all different ingredients as their weights are different? 1 cup mayo isn't going to be the same weight as 1 cup powered sugar. Any ideas?

[@destiny2jt]

and how about butter or melted butter

[@siningchen7047]

You don't really have to measure it. When you buy the butter, it comes in half-cup packs. Most people use block butter instead of butter that comes in a giant container because, block butter is easier to use.

[@problame2249]

My conundrum this week: where's Sarah? LOL.

[@elizabethcuevas1862]

Very helpful

[@lucyandaddygamesqueens8349]

im at school LOL watching this

[@Krcanterbury]

1 1BS of confectionary sugar equals how many dry cups

[@annmarieferguson8840]

Thank you

[@2.5chainz]

idgi this is so much work for what😭 literally a scale will solve this

[@fatimapereira8839]

Thanks for the explanation of weights and measures. I would like to know how do I measure a cup of butter as specified in a recipe. What does a cup of butter weigh? Thanks. Fatima

[@WarnerEmily]

Each stick of butter is 1/2 a cup. So if you need 1 cup of butter, that'll be 2 full sticks :)

[@dawnmichelle4403]

Each half cup (or stick) of butter weighs 4 oz.

[@jenniferdavies8910]

Loved this, but wish you had done ponds and ounces and then grams .

[@Neelmani108]

Thomas like ur channel because of u . I thought u will share how to measure butter but u missed such an important ingredient

[@teresapadinha8132]

1 kg of flour and many measuring thank you

[@roxsanambrosini2449]

Very nice...

[@harjeetkumar9249]

So good sr

[@7thTreasure]

I've beed doing it wrong all these years lol I hate measuring in cups instead of grams.

[@TheDerpyMango3]

oh

[@Oakeshott-ko8ig]

Thank you!😘

[@Garbage-Bound-Filth]

i liek the flour, i like how it fits through little holes, yes yes. because of its powdery nature, i rate it 7 flour piles out of 10!

[@allisonpruss2205]

i like this video it was good

[@Lypno]

That's a very American thing, in France we don't have anf use these measuring tools

[@fatimajamalussama]

Hi I need to know how should i measure butter for recipes that doesnt state melted. Like should i get the bar and put it on the weighing machine or should melt it anyway and then measure?

[@klieu90210]

Weigh solid butter if it does not explicitly ask you to melt it. Normally a recipe calls for fractions of a stick.

[@lighttheoryllc4337]

Salam my sis

[@amalmystic11]

Perfect!👌🏾

[@leilasexylady9032]

That's right I hate converting grams to cups obviously this time not a lots of people using scale

[@liasuckslmao]

2 things: 1. Vanilla extract: I always used dry measuring tools to measure my vanilla, but since it is a liquid, im thinking your should use really small liquid measuring cups. But i cant find any... 2. Opinion on metric vs us customary. I like both. grams is 1,000 times easier, you dont have to wash a billion measuring cups, but at the same time, i like customary probably cuz im more used to it, but you do have to wash a billion measuring cups like i said, but im not used to washing dishes, so it will make me more used to washing dishes, and customary actually is pretty easy. Don't judge. I'm from the US. Probably everyone watching is from everywhere excpet the US, but welcome to our world! Lol. Plus, you will get used to it, and we have the internet to teach us cups to grams.

[@liasuckslmao]

Pllllluzzz... Baking is supposed to be fun, not exhausting. Because customary does take a few minutes, and it makes sense because first of all you're measuring into cups. Second, delicious things take time, and it does prove that you can be patient. And it actually is fun to be measuring things in and out! No arguments, just my opinion.

[@patrickcurran9890]

is it one cup or 7 oz i dont understand the recipies o.19 ? thank you

[@amnaj8210]

Then how come Sarah Carey (from the same channel) always dip the cup right into the canister to take the flour??

[@xvzw]

+Amin Ori lol I noticed ! Well, most people dont do what they tell you to do

[@VJFavourites]

Hi great video..But what about cocoa powder? Does the same rule of the flour apply to it as well?

[@wuangelina]

What set of dry measuring cups are those? I'd like to buy them!

[@focusedpositive1]

How do you measure when it calls for 1 and 3/4 table spoon or 1/4 tablespoon or tea spoon of wet or dry

[@markfernandes3438]

Can u make a video on different mixing bowls (glass ones )

[@rifazahar9724]

please more information about sourdough or starter dough thankyou

[@SherryAnnPersadBhagwansingh]

Wonderful video. However wouldn't the stems from the fruits add to the weight?

[@MakroonaHD]

Where can we buy these measuring: spoons, dry cups, wet cups ? Links ? Brands ? Locations ? Any type of reference ? Thanks.

[@odderlendsolvang3790]

Just by a scale!

[@theeGAME360]

When a recipe asks for 2 tbps of butter. Do you consider it 2tbsp unmelted or melted butter. Or does it not matter. Thanks

[@MrsChococinno]

theeGAME360 unmelted ofc

[@klieu90210]

A standard stick of butter is 4oz. There are 2tbsp in 1oz. Therefore, 2tbsp of butter is 1/4 of a stick.

[@nandanugrahanti8]

What about if the recipe calls for 1/4 cup of water? Should we use the measuring glass or is it ok to use the measuring spoon for 1/4 cup?

[@djkaspikC]

1:24 What does he know about the straight side

[@Noemie2018]

I mostly use my scale. Way more precise.

[@jtv0]

How do you measure vegetables, leaves, fruits? Do you chop everything first? What about whole pieces? Firstworldproblems

[@alidua2134]

Nice

[@Barbarra63297]

When you are dealing with things like butter, crisco and they have to be extremely cold, is the water displacement method the best to use?

[@babyjoybarrameda2650]

now I know how to measure

[@lorrainebagley]

What about measuring milligrams. Like 200 mg

[@norasiahadam8059]

tq chef❤👍

[@rosamanzo7785]

I need to know how much is 2 ounces I need to ounces of butter how do I measure 2 ounces of butter please help

[@fightingfiresusa2961]

If the metal cups are only for dry, how do you measure a teaspoon or tablespoon? I always measure my vanilla extract in the teaspoon size plastic cup that I usually only measure dry in. Is that ok?

[@vee5574]

Are there any other options of the wet measuring cup?

[@rashidajasat1633]

Thanks ! May I ask 200 grams is that 1 cup for instance mustard seeds Is that correct 200 gms is 1 level cup Hope to hear from you confused 😐

[@shelbysnellen725]

I'm wanting to learn everything about cooking!! How can I start without wasting

[@asyuraniel]

Need help in conversion of measurement of gram and cup... Beside that, is one cup of butter have the same weight as obe of flour... Please help me

[@JACKATTACKSLAY]

How do you know when to stop whipping both egg whites and whipping cream? I never know when to stop whipping my egg whites for macarons.

[@toen1939]

Where I come from, a cup is half a mug (1/8 and 1/4 l respectively); but at least English cups seems to be more like mugs...

[@fabianofcarlos]

You all are saying that measuring cups are not precise and that we should use scales. Well, you're simply forgetting one important fact: every measuring device (mechanical or electronic) has an error. Each and every one of them. That should be written in the box or label or whatever they come with/in from the store. Even professional devices to be used in the industry or laboratories have errors. Depending on the country and its regulations, kitchen measuring devices can have an error of up to 10% or more! So... scales will be as imprecise as cups. And I gotta say that the cheaper the scale, the bigger the error. You just have to deal with that fact.

[@fabianofcarlos]

The point Thomas is making on this video is how to use the different measuring devices, not which one is the best. And certainly not to avoid using cups.

[@lighttheoryllc4337]

KOOF to your Evil Eye Symbol

[@mishaifill2417]

what about butter do you measure it hard or when its soften ? for instance if a recipe calls for 3oz

[@kahlitan489]

How do you weigh butter?