Cooking: units and vocabulary 🤓
Units
- 1 cup = 236mL
A cup is a unit of volume. To convert in grams, it depends on the ingredient! - 1 oz = 28.35g
An ounce (or avoirdupod ounce) is a unit of mass - 1 fl. oz = 28.41mL (in UK – imperial fluid ounce) or 29.57mL (in US – customary fluid ounce, which is also different from the food labelling fluid ounce of exactly 30mL which is used on packaging)
Difference types of rising agents (levures)
It's so confusing sometimes. Good to have a summary here:
| Français | English | Dansk |
|---|---|---|
| Levure chimique | Baking powder | Bagepulver |
| Bicarbonate de soude | Baking soda | Natron |
| Levure | Yeast | Gær |
- Baking soda is a baking ingredient that's activated by a liquid and an acid to help with leavening, or rising
- Baking powder is a complete leavening agent, meaning it contains both baking soda and an acidic ingredient (such as cream of tartar -- crème de tartare i.e. hydrogénotartrate de potassium). It also sometimes contains some corn starch (amidon de maïs) to preserve the powder over time.
Baking soda is 3 to 4 times stronger than baking powder. - Yeast on contrary to the two previous ones, is living matter.