How do you measure a table spoon of peanut butter?
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Miamiuu
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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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weigh it - if you use a measuring spoon level it2
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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!?"
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I weigh it.0
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Fill up the "cup" of the spoon and level it off. Weighing would be more accurate though.0
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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.1
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I put my bread on the scale and weigh the amount of peanut butter directly on the bread.2
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That's a fabulous tip aarar! Thank you.0
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I put my bread on the scale and weigh the amount of peanut butter directly on the bread.
mind.
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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!0 -
Buy a scale and weigh your solid food (and use volumes for liquids).0
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Use PB2 plain or with cocoa. BEST thing ever for sub of that fattening PB that we all love(d).0
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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!0 -
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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.2 -
Use a scale0
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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.1 -
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.0
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is it roughly the same amount as scooping your index and middle finger in the jar and sticking them straight into your mouth?1
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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.0
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I like the way you do it aarar!0
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