How can i weigh flour without a scale?

[Smithtylater]

Does anyone know any other way i can measure flour without a scale please?

do you have a cup measure?
sometimes they have scales for weight as well.
or use american reciped that use volume more than weight.

By cup? Or tablespoon? Can you google measurement conversions? Or guesstimate on the size of the bag. So if you have 500g bag and you need 300g then split it into 5 equalish bowls?

Google how to convert weight to cup measurements, then use those.

My gran always said that a heaped tablespoon was an ounce, not sure how true this is though.

A rounded dessert spoonful is around 1oz/28g, so four spoonfuls is roughly 100g.

2 rounded tablespoons (ie not heaped as high as poss!) = 1oz or 25g

Make sure it's a genuine tablespoon.

All-Purpose Flour:
1 cup = 4 1/4 ounces = 120 grams

(Found on www.savorysimple.net/how-to-measure-flour/)

According to google the density of flour is 0.593 grams per cubic centimeter. 1 cubic cm is 1 ml

So 1g of flour will be 1.68 ml.
100g of flour will be 168 ml, and so on.

Use a measuring jug and this conversion chart. One cup is 8 fluid ounces.

If you can ever get hold of one of these,second hand,they're brilliant!
This seems a bit pricey to me,but otoh never goes wrong so will last a lifetime.

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Measuring jugs often have flour and sugar "weights by volume" on them, so you can measure out X grams of flour using the jug. If yours doesn't, you can calculate it using this:

convertunits.online/food-conversion/flour/flour-grams-to-ml/

Just did a bit of experimentation; a standard 15ml tablespoon of plain flour - levelled off weighs 10g.
You can scale this up to the weight of flour you want and use a measuring jug if you have one. happy to do the maths for you if you tell us the number of grams of the flour needed.

Oh gosh @campion that takes me back 60 years! My mother used to have something almost identical to that. I remember watching her using it to measure out flour for pastry.

I also remember her saving up her Green Shield stamps to buy a set of Salter kitchen scales! I think the cups measure was ditched when the scales arrived. A shame really, as actually more reliable than the sales, it suspect!

make a simple balance scale out of a coat hanger: tie two carrier bags to each end, put a known weight in one (tin of beans for example), and flour in the other, balance the hook over your finger.

Ifailed - but the weight given on the label of a bean tin is the weight of the contents only. Just weighed a tin of heinz Beanz - it says 415g on the label but weighs 469g.

Many measuring jugs have scales on them for sugar and flour. It's what I generally use for bread making as it's accurate enough. Or i guess

A standard tin of beer weighs 1lb 1 oz make some scales out of a bit of wood and a rolling pin
hope that helps

Professor green was doing this on Facebook, he has no scales and he was getting people to weigh it and then put it into a measurement jug so he could see what it measured in that.

I just guess! I’ve needed new batteries for my scales for about a six months so I just estimate how much of the bag I’ll need. Eg recipe says 250g flour, I have a 1kg bag so I put in about a quarter of the bag. Not an exact science but also with sponge cake mixture / Yorkshire puds / basic biscuits I then also go by consistency of the mixture, can always add a little of this or that to even it out. Haven’t had any disasters yet!!

The heaped tablespoon for an ounce is the large serving type of spoon.

Heaped for flour
Flat for sugar

One rounded tablespoon of flour will equal one ounce of flour.
This type of measuring is best used for recipes which don't require exact amounts, so it would be fine for shortcrust pastry or rock buns or scones for instance but more risky to use for sponge cakes.

If have you got a set of measuring spoons, the largest one of them is traditionally a tablespoon.

80sMum DH had one when we got married. It's still at the back of a cupboard, slightly battered but usable. Used to have them in schools when I first started teaching (H.E/Food)- was much easier for kids to measure as they tend to press down on scales!
I remember green shield stamps,though mainly just the excitement of getting them. Simple pleasures in those days