Best way to measure gooey foods accurately?

kobun37
kobun37 Posts: 5 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I'm talking about stuff like nut butter, condiments, jams and other foods commonly sold in jars. Even real butter is a problem for me. Super simple to tell how much is a tablespoon when the stick is still in the wrapper, not so easy when it's sitting in a butter dish on the counter. I've even thought about buying restaurant style wrapped butter pats at Costco.

I'm just really bad at estimating volume by sight, but scooping the stuff out with a measuring spoon and leveling it off gets messy.

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  • ktekc
    ktekc Posts: 879 Member
    weigh container..take out what you want..weigh container again..log difference...lick spoon.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Weigh it
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    Food scale

    If I am making a sandwich I just put the bread on the scale tare the scale and add the peanut butter/condiment. If I am adding other things like jelly or meat I can tare the scale and continue to weigh with each addition.

    Or you could weigh containers like others have suggested.
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Food scale

    If I am making a sandwich I just put the bread on the scale tare the scale and add the peanut butter/condiment. If I am adding other things like jelly or meat I can tare the scale and continue to weigh with each addition.

    Or you could weigh containers like others have suggested.

    Taking the spread/condiment out of the jar is more successful (and accurate) IMO - if you weigh it on to the bread, what do you do with the leftover on the knife?
  • ktekc
    ktekc Posts: 879 Member
    lick spoon also applies to knife...carefully.
  • Leannep2201
    Leannep2201 Posts: 441 Member
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Food scale

    If I am making a sandwich I just put the bread on the scale tare the scale and add the peanut butter/condiment. If I am adding other things like jelly or meat I can tare the scale and continue to weigh with each addition.

    Or you could weigh containers like others have suggested.

    I usually do this, too, and then I (wait for it.....) rinse the knife before I can lick it!!!

    I can hear mouths dropping open in horror everywhere!

    Of course, I wipe it as clean as I can on the bread before doing so!

  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    Leannep2201 wrote: »
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Food scale

    If I am making a sandwich I just put the bread on the scale tare the scale and add the peanut butter/condiment. If I am adding other things like jelly or meat I can tare the scale and continue to weigh with each addition.

    Or you could weigh containers like others have suggested.

    I usually do this, too, and then I (wait for it.....) rinse the knife before I can lick it!!!

    I can hear mouths dropping open in horror everywhere!

    Of course, I wipe it as clean as I can on the bread before doing so!

    I used to do that with cake mixing bowls when I didn't want the risk of licking them clean... I'd also add detergent. It's a waste of spread though! Haha.... Poor PB.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,092 Member
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Food scale

    If I am making a sandwich I just put the bread on the scale tare the scale and add the peanut butter/condiment. If I am adding other things like jelly or meat I can tare the scale and continue to weigh with each addition.

    Or you could weigh containers like others have suggested.

    Taking the spread/condiment out of the jar is more successful (and accurate) IMO - if you weigh it on to the bread, what do you do with the leftover on the knife?

    Wash/wipe/rinse it off. If it's nut butter or nutella or jelly -- something I'm going to want to lick off the spoon -- I weigh the jar. If it's mayo or butter -- something I'm not going to want to lick -- I weigh the bread.
  • Sayanogo
    Sayanogo Posts: 34 Member
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    Food scale

    If I am making a sandwich I just put the bread on the scale tare the scale and add the peanut butter/condiment. If I am adding other things like jelly or meat I can tare the scale and continue to weigh with each addition.

    Or you could weigh containers like others have suggested.

    Taking the spread/condiment out of the jar is more successful (and accurate) IMO - if you weigh it on to the bread, what do you do with the leftover on the knife?

    Wash/wipe/rinse it off. If it's nut butter or nutella or jelly -- something I'm going to want to lick off the spoon -- I weigh the jar. If it's mayo or butter -- something I'm not going to want to lick -- I weigh the bread.

    The idea of licking butter off of a spoon just made my stomach turn
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    I put my plate with bread on the scale and set the knife or spoon on it, zero, then get the condiment out and put the implement back on the scale.

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