How much is 500 grams when you're mesuring spices??

Question

like, can you give me a rough 'normal' mesurment, like how many teaspoons, for example??

Answer 1

Look at the bottle label of your spices, and you will get an idea of how much a teaspoon weighs.

Different spices have different densities, and therefore a teaspon of one spice could be heavier or lighter than a teaspoon of another spice.

Answer 2

500 grams = 17.636981 ounces. That's more than a pound. Yu will need to weigh it out or buy it where they can weigh out the amount you need. Can't really give you a volume equivalent as different herbs and spices have different weights for the same volume.

Answer 3

five hundred grams is aproximately one pound..... a pound of any spice would be a heck of a lot of teaspoons!

Here is a scale that I have in an international cookbook...

A pinch = less than an 1/8th. of a teaspoon

1 tsp. = 5 grams

3 tsp. = 1 tablespoon = 15 grams or 1/2 ounce

2 tbsp. = 1 ounce or 30 grams

4 tbsp. = 1/4 cup

8 tbsp. = 1/2 cup

Sooo....if 5 grams is 1 teaspoon...500 grams would be 100 teaspoons!

Answer 4

grams is weight while cups is a fixed volume so it depends upon the spice... some spices are heavier than others so you need to let us know what spice.

Answer 5

500 grs are not far from one Pound - Amen

In some cases some spices in such a quantity will cost you a mortgage

Answer 6

About two and one eight cups. But you would not use that much spice in a dish, anyway.

You would not use a whole spice in the dish.

Answer 7

A normal coffee cup has 125 ml. Fillled with water 125 ml = 125g. 500g is about the weight of the content of 4 coffee cups.

Greetigs from Hamburg, Germany

Heinz

ps: for spices 500g are a lot. Are you cooking for all the pepole in the US?

Answer 8

yea it depends on the spice. use a weighing scale.  500 g is a lot of spice to put in one dish, fyi

Answer 9

Dave is totally right. It depends on the kind of spice, whether it is ground or whole.  Whole nutmeg, for example, is pretty big and round, so a cup of that would not weigh as much as ground nutmeg packed into a cup.

That said, try this link...it's helped me a lot. http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/gram_calc.h...

Last month though, I finally broke down and bought a scale. It was too much trouble converting all the time and my recipes were not coming out accurately.

Answer 10

maybe a cup.