Helpful tools for scale-lovers

CoffeeNCardio

If you're way past this and it's kindergarten level for you, good for you and I probably love your posts on the forum:)

For those of us still in MFP grade school, I found these two really helpful tools and have been using them for a month or so now and I thought I'd share.

I dunno about y'all, but I like to weigh EVERYTHING that can exist on a flat surface and maintain it's shape (non-liquids). This includes honey, and the more commonly used butter. But I hate how the butter I use comes up as only available to measure by volume (fl oz, tablespoons, teaspoons) in the database. I want to put the biscuit on the scale, weigh, tar, add butter, weigh, tar, add honey, and get on with my hectic day please. Plus I own hand me down crappy measuring spoons, so there's that.

In order to accomplish the goal of weighing what MFP only lets me measure by volume (at least in the case of the brands of stuff I use) I scoured the internet for options and found the almighty Butter Converter and Honey Converter. Numerous additional searches as well as having now used these for a month or a bit more have convinced me of their accuracy, so if you have the same thing I do, here they are, bookmark for easier logging:)

(If I have 10 grams of honey, the converter tells me it's .24 fl oz, which is the number I stick into MFP to make my life easier. And my guess is it's more accurate than actually pouring honey into a measuring cup (I've got a mini one for tablespoons and fluid oz) and then subsequently pouring that on a biscuit).


http://www.traditionaloven.com/conversions_of_measures/butter_converter.html


http://convert-to.com/246/honey-amounts-converter.html

zoeysasha37

Good thread ! This could be helpful to those who enjoy these items frequently. ( I do not personally but it could still help others so good job!)

CoffeeNCardio

thorsmom01 wrote: »

Good thread ! This could be helpful to those who enjoy these items frequently. ( I do not personally but it could still help others so good job!)

Thanks! I actually only use honey RARELY, but when I do, I just gotta weigh. I use butter more frequently, but mostly in cooking, where weighing the total is just so much easier if you're cooking for multiple people.

AJ_G

I thought it was pretty standard that butter is 14g per tbsp...

CoffeeNCardio

AJ_G wrote: »

I thought it was pretty standard that butter is 14g per tbsp...

Dude: "If you're way past this and it's kindergarten level for you......."

I dunno, maybe it is. But as a patron of many a food bank I MONTHLY end up with sticks of butter by themselves, no packaging aside from the little wax paper wrapping with the (way off) tbsp measuring tape thing on them. And in any case, why go out of your way to do math (I absolutely despise the entire subject, and always have, yay liberal arts:)) when you could just plug a number into a thing and it gives you the answer?

ETA: This past time I went they gave me a grocery bag, double bagged, overflowing with like three different varieties of onions, none of which are marked, and as I grew up on Hamburger Helper, I will confess I had no earthly idea Onions came in multiple varieties until this past month

AJ_G

CoffeeNCardio wrote: »

AJ_G wrote: »

I thought it was pretty standard that butter is 14g per tbsp...

Dude: "If you're way past this and it's kindergarten level for you......."

I dunno, maybe it is. But as a patron of many a food bank I MONTHLY end up with sticks of butter by themselves, no packaging aside from the little wax paper wrapping with the (way off) tbsp measuring tape thing on them. And in any case, why go out of your way to do math (I absolutely despise the entire subject, and always have, yay liberal arts:)) when you could just plug a number into a thing and it gives you the answer?

ETA: This past time I went they gave me a grocery bag, double bagged, overflowing with like three different varieties of onions, none of which are marked, and as I grew up on Hamburger Helper, I will confess I had no earthly idea Onions came in multiple varieties until this past month

Uhh...sorry?

CoffeeNCardio

AJ_G wrote: »

CoffeeNCardio wrote: »

AJ_G wrote: »

I thought it was pretty standard that butter is 14g per tbsp...

Dude: "If you're way past this and it's kindergarten level for you......."

I dunno, maybe it is. But as a patron of many a food bank I MONTHLY end up with sticks of butter by themselves, no packaging aside from the little wax paper wrapping with the (way off) tbsp measuring tape thing on them. And in any case, why go out of your way to do math (I absolutely despise the entire subject, and always have, yay liberal arts:)) when you could just plug a number into a thing and it gives you the answer?

ETA: This past time I went they gave me a grocery bag, double bagged, overflowing with like three different varieties of onions, none of which are marked, and as I grew up on Hamburger Helper, I will confess I had no earthly idea Onions came in multiple varieties until this past month

Uhh...sorry?

NO! No no no... Omg, funny ha-ha, not b*tchy!!! I was being "oh what a nar nar am i? I said the kindergarten thing to be sarcastic and here it really IS kindergarten level!" which is why I then quoted the thing I said about kindergarten level, and then went on about the onions and how absurd I am for not even knowing there were various kinds of onions (more kindergarten kitchen/how blonde am I supposition). This was purely self-deprecating humor done poorly through text (I should probably have thrown in some smiley-emoji's)

robertw486

Not a bad idea, and certainly quicker in most cases. And you mentioned measuring honey. Though your method would be more accurate, using a cup or something would result in more weight loss... because HALF THE HONEY WOULD BE LEFT IN THE TEASPOON!

Are you just using a custom food entry to make it easy to find?

The only flaw I could see at all is with certain foods, making a measure yourself might make more sense. Honey and butter, probably not. But as example, many margarine and spread products are whipped to varied density levels. So in that case if a person could measure for their brand it might make more sense.


I don't weigh any foods, but the butter conversion link did save me some time. It has conversion from cubic yards of gold to grams.