How much is 500 grams when you're mesuring spices??!
Answers: like, can you give me a rough 'normal' mesurment, like how many teaspoons, for example??
five hundred grams is aproximately one pound..... a pound of any spice would be a heck of a lot of teaspoons!
Here is a scale that I have in an international cookbook...
A pinch = less than an 1/8th. of a teaspoon
1 tsp. = 5 grams
3 tsp. = 1 tablespoon = 15 grams or 1/2 ounce
2 tbsp. = 1 ounce or 30 grams
4 tbsp. = 1/4 cup
8 tbsp. = 1/2 cup
Sooo....if 5 grams is 1 teaspoon...500 grams would be 100 teaspoons!
maybe a cup.
About two and one eight cups. But you would not use that much spice in a dish, anyway.
You would not use a whole spice in the dish.
grams is weight while cups is a fixed volume so it depends upon the spice... some spices are heavier than others so you need to let us know what spice.
Dave is totally right. It depends on the kind of spice, whether it is ground or whole. Whole nutmeg, for example, is pretty big and round, so a cup of that would not weigh as much as ground nutmeg packed into a cup.
That said, try this link...it's helped me a lot. http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/gram_calc.h...
Last month though, I finally broke down and bought a scale. It was too much trouble converting all the time and my recipes were not coming out accurately.
yea it depends on the spice. use a weighing scale. 500 g is a lot of spice to put in one dish, fyi
Look at the bottle label of your spices, and you will get an idea of how much a teaspoon weighs.
Different spices have different densities, and therefore a teaspon of one spice could be heavier or lighter than a teaspoon of another spice.
500 grams = 17.636981 ounces. That's more than a pound. Yu will need to weigh it out or buy it where they can weigh out the amount you need. Can't really give you a volume equivalent as different herbs and spices have different weights for the same volume.
500 grs are not far from one Pound - Amen
In some cases some spices in such a quantity will cost you a mortgage
A normal coffee cup has 125 ml. Fillled with water 125 ml = 125g. 500g is about the weight of the content of 4 coffee cups.
Greetigs from Hamburg, Germany
Heinz
ps: for spices 500g are a lot. Are you cooking for all the pepole in the US?