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How do you measure a table spoon of peanut butter?

Miamiuu
Miamiuu Posts: 262 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Ive always wondered this since the package says one table spoon. How high up can the peanut butter be stacked on the spoon?
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  • knra_grl
    knra_grl Posts: 1,566 Member
    weigh it - if you use a measuring spoon level it
  • cwsreddy
    cwsreddy Posts: 998 Member
    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!?"

    :tongue:
  • Kristinemomof3
    Kristinemomof3 Posts: 636 Member
    I weigh it.
  • MysteriousMerlin
    MysteriousMerlin Posts: 2,270 Member
    Fill up the "cup" of the spoon and level it off. Weighing would be more accurate though.
  • margannmks
    margannmks Posts: 424 Member
    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
    aarar Posts: 684 Member
    I put my bread on the scale and weigh the amount of peanut butter directly on the bread.
  • loritaheale
    loritaheale Posts: 7
    That's a fabulous tip aarar! Thank you.
  • cwsreddy
    cwsreddy Posts: 998 Member
    I put my bread on the scale and weigh the amount of peanut butter directly on the bread.

    mind.

    blown.
  • yogicarl
    yogicarl Posts: 1,260 Member
    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
    links_slayer Posts: 1,151 Member
    Buy a scale and weigh your solid food (and use volumes for liquids).
  • monizjm
    monizjm Posts: 92 Member
    Use PB2 plain or with cocoa. BEST thing ever for sub of that fattening PB that we all love(d).
  • crsawinton
    crsawinton Posts: 96 Member
    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
    AllieBear88 Posts: 170 Member
    Use these
    http://www.walmart.com/ip/Farberware-7pc-Measuring-Spoon-Set-Black/16456515
  • minizebu
    minizebu Posts: 2,716 Member
    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
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
    Use a scale
  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
    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
    Makoce Posts: 938 Member
    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
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    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
    rileysowner Posts: 8,354 Member
    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
    judychicken Posts: 937 Member
    I like the way you do it aarar!
  • desireecl
    desireecl Posts: 73 Member
    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
    flatlndr Posts: 713 Member
    weigh it - if you use a measuring spoon level it

    Yup ... that simple.

    (I use a level tbsp for my PB, btw)
  • carolina822
    carolina822 Posts: 155 Member
    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
    autumnblade75 Posts: 1,661 Member
    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. :D
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    I weigh it.
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    I put my bread on the scale and weigh the amount of peanut butter directly on the bread.
    Me too!
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  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    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
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    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
    marye2021 Posts: 225 Member
    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
    20Grit Posts: 752 Member
    How ever much you can fit on the tip of your finger!



    or two.
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