How Much Is 1/2 Teaspoon

How to measure 1/8, 1/4, 1/2 and 1 teaspoon plus 1 tablespoon without a measuring spoon. Exactly how to measure ingredients with just your hand. — Pin it for futurity reference!

Wondering how to measure one/8 teaspoon when y'all don't have a measuring spoon that size? Or any other measurement that you lot don't have a measuring spoon for? Here's how to practice it.

When she needed a teaspoon or less of something, my grandmother e'er "measured" it in the palm of her manus. My female parent owned measuring spoons and taught me to utilise them, but nigh never used them herself — once more, just measuring in her hand. And over time, I learned their "eyeball estimates."

I'grand sure, when you read some of these, you're going to think "that tin't be right." Before writing this, I checked the measures confronting actual measuring spoons. Certain plenty, mom was right.

HOW TO MEASURE WITHOUT A MEASURING SPOON

1/eight teaspoon	1 pinch using your thumb, index and middle finger
1/4 teaspoon	2 of the above pinches OR cup your hand like you were holding h2o in it; pour a mound into the middle of your hand nigh the size of a nickel
one/2 teaspoon	a mound about the size of a quarter in your cupped hand
1 teaspoon	a mound nigh 1/4-inch all effectually larger than a quarter in your cupped paw OR an "eating" teaspoon about half full
1 tablespoon	fill up a soup spoon so it is very slightly rounded up OR turn a 12-ounce popular or beer tin upside downward (wash it!) – that depression in the bottom holds exactly ane tablespoon

Fifty-fifty if y'all don't intend to use these regularly, you might want to print this out and keep information technology in case you lose a measuring spoon and it'south a while before you lot can buy another one . . . or yous are in a metric country!

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