How do you measure a table spoon of peanut butter?

Miamiuu

Ive always wondered this since the package says one table spoon. How high up can the peanut butter be stacked on the spoon?

knra_grl

weigh it - if you use a measuring spoon level it

cwsreddy

you dip the spoon in the peanut butter, make a scooping motion, and when the cup of the spoon is full, you remove it from the jar.

jk, but seriously, just to the top of the spoon, that's a tablespoon. it's not a game of "how much can we load onto one spoon!?"

Kristinemomof3

I weigh it.

MysteriousMerlin

Fill up the "cup" of the spoon and level it off. Weighing would be more accurate though.

margannmks

Peanut butter is most womens "crack" . I use pb2 cause i have to mix it and thats portion control of which i have none for the jarred stuff. Also count it as a fat not a protein.

aarar

I put my bread on the scale and weigh the amount of peanut butter directly on the bread.

loritaheale

That's a fabulous tip aarar! Thank you.

cwsreddy

I put my bread on the scale and weigh the amount of peanut butter directly on the bread.

mind.

blown.

yogicarl

is it roughly the same amount as scooping your index and middle finger in the jar and sticking them straight into your mouth?

Seriously though, I wondered on this one and decided to find a calorie count for a given number of grams rather than by the spoonful as I tend to cheat where PB is concerned!

links_slayer

Buy a scale and weigh your solid food (and use volumes for liquids).

monizjm

Use PB2 plain or with cocoa. BEST thing ever for sub of that fattening PB that we all love(d).

crsawinton

Use PB2 plain or with cocoa. BEST thing ever for sub of that fattening PB that we all love(d).

I just bought some, can't wait to use it in a PB and banana smoothie!

AllieBear88

Use these
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Farberware-7pc-Measuring-Spoon-Set-Black/16456515

minizebu

I recommend weighing everything.

However, I must admit that I do not weigh my peanut butter. When I was a child my mother taught me how to measure ingredients in a volumetric measure by filling the cavity and then scraping the top flat. So, this is what I do with peanut butter. I use the back (flat) part of a table knife to scrape the excess peanut butter back into the jar, so I am left with a spoon that is filled to the rim, but not over.

When I first started weighing my food I did indeed weigh my peanut butter, after measuring using the above scraping method. (I pre-weighed the measuring spoon.) It turned out that my fill and scrape method yielded nearly the exact weight listed for 1 tablespoon of peanut butter (Xg). I think that it was off by 1 gram, but I forget in which direction.

So, ever since then, I just don't sweat it. I fill and scrape, but do not weigh peanut butter.

magerum

Use a scale

81Katz

I too put whatever I plan to use with the peanut butter ON the food scale (bread, wrap, cracker, etc) then I put the peanut butter on that way.

Digital scale = life saver.

Makoce

I put my spoon on my digital scale with the scale set to grams, say the spoon is 30 grams .. and a tbsp of pb is 16 grams, I just scoop the spoon into the pb and put it back on the scale and adjust till it says 46 grams.

sijomial

is it roughly the same amount as scooping your index and middle finger in the jar and sticking them straight into your mouth?

I buy my peanut butter in a 1kg tub so I can get my whole hand in.....

rileysowner

It would be level, not heaped. Frankly it is one of the least accurate ways to measure peanut butter. Get a digital kitchen scale and weight it based on the weight given as that is the number that is accurate, the 1 tablespoon is the estimate of what that weight would be equivalent to.

judychicken

I like the way you do it aarar!

desireecl

The only time I've ever measured pb is in baking, never weighed it. I have a bad habit of eyeballing...2 tbsp is about the size of a ping pong ball. I don't eat pb too frequently though, so being imprecise isn't a huge issue for me. No point dirtying measuring spoons or hauling out the scale for something so minor, IMO. I would say that weighing the empty spoon then adding pb until I had the weight of 1 serving would be my method of choice if I ate it daily

flatlndr

weigh it - if you use a measuring spoon level it

Yup ... that simple.

(I use a level tbsp for my PB, btw)

carolina822

I too put whatever I plan to use with the peanut butter ON the food scale (bread, wrap, cracker, etc) then I put the peanut butter on that way.

Digital scale = life saver.

Same here, but mostly because I'm too lazy to wash the tablespoon after measuring.

autumnblade75

I put my bread on the scale and weigh the amount of peanut butter directly on the bread.

Me, too! I was actually short-changing myself on peanut butter before I started weighing it, though. Strange, that.

Edit: As far as math goes, all of you subtracting the weight of your spoon - you should've gotten a scale with a TARE function.

QuietBloom

I weigh it.

AmyRhubarb

I put my bread on the scale and weigh the amount of peanut butter directly on the bread.

Me too!

kommodevaran

With all the self-control I can muster!

Seriously, I don't use measuring spoons, I use food scales. I place the jar on the scales, turn it on, scoop out an amount of the contents; look at the display, which will be -xx grams. That's rarely the right amount, so I dip into the jar a few times and add or scrape off and try again until I've gotten the right amount out of the jar. That way I won't have to remove it from whatever I'm using it in/on, a big advantage when making something liquid and it's impossible to take it out again :-)

LiftAllThePizzas

I put my bread on the scale and weigh the amount of peanut butter directly on the bread.

I do the same. That way you don't end up with all the extra stuck to whatever you were using to measure it.

Also, when you use measuring cups/spoons you are supposed to take a flat object like a knife and run it across the top to level it off.

marye2021

is it roughly the same amount as scooping your index and middle finger in the jar and sticking them straight into your mouth?

I buy my peanut butter in a 1kg tub so I can get my whole hand in.....

That's hot.

20Grit

How ever much you can fit on the tip of your finger!



or two.