An Eighth Of A 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 1/8 teaspoon when you don't have a measuring spoon that size? Or whatsoever other measurement that you don't have a measuring spoon for? Here's how to do information technology.

When she needed a teaspoon or less of something, my grandmother ever "measured" it in the palm of her hand. My mother endemic measuring spoons and taught me to use them, but well-nigh never used them herself — again, just measuring in her hand. And over time, I learned their "eyeball estimates."

I'm sure, when you lot read some of these, you're going to think "that tin't exist right." Before writing this, I checked the measures against actual measuring spoons. Sure enough, mom was correct.

HOW TO MEASURE WITHOUT A MEASURING SPOON

1/viii teaspoon	1 pinch using your pollex, index and middle finger
1/4 teaspoon	2 of the higher up pinches OR cup your hand similar you were holding water in it; pour a mound into the center of your mitt most the size of a nickel
1/2 teaspoon	a mound about the size of a quarter in your cupped hand
1 teaspoon	a mound almost 1/4-inch all around larger than a quarter in your cupped hand OR an "eating" teaspoon about one-half full
1 tablespoon	fill up a soup spoon so it is very slightly rounded up OR plough a 12-ounce pop or beer can upside downwards (wash it!) – that low in the bottom holds exactly one tablespoon

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

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