Okay, I’m confused and Googling is making it worse.
I got a new protein powder that’s perfect for a vegetarian like me. Put it in my juice in the morning and voila! But I’m confused. It says 30g of powder yeilds 26g of protein blah blah blah… “Just add one scoop to fruit juice or milk.”
The scoop that came with the container looks awfully BIG for 30g, even for this light powder. I examined it more thoroughly, and on the bottom of the scoop is:
“60cc - 2 lf. oz.” and there is a perfect, crisp line at the halfway point of the scoop.
So okay, it’s a 2 oz. scoop… but that would be 60 ml… twice what I would expect for 30 g.
That halfway point, witht the very obvious line, looks about right to me. 2 tablespoons of flour is about a fluid ounce or 30 ml, and one dry ounce is 30 g. Am I supposed to be adding a scoop of this powder according to the line on the scoop? The instructions aren’t clear.
My previous protein powder had a scoop that was about 2 tablespoons in size. Scooping only to that line would make sense. Is my estimate correct? 2 tablespoons or 1 fluid ounce-sized scoop is about 30 grams? (The powder is comparable to flour.) I don’t have a small scale here to test my theory.
In a recipe, if they ask for 30 grams of starch, what container do you use to measure it? Do you just throw in two tablespoons of starch, or do you actually weigh it?
It sounds like you don’t need to weigh it, etc. You need to just understand what they want you to do. Are the complete and total instructions “just add one scoop”? Or is there more detail in the fine print? Just because they say 30g of powder yields 26g of protein, it doesn’t mean that 30g is a serving. Maybe you need 60g, thus the scoop.
Virtually all U.S. recipes for home cooks express quantities as volumes, except for possibly butter (1/4 pound = 4 fl. oz.) and chocolate, or other things that are packaged by weight so don’t require the cook to weigh it. Professionals use weight because it is more accurate for dry goods that vary in density (flour, for example).
I was paraphrasing poorly. One serving is supposed to be 30g, and of that 30g you’re getting 26g of protein. (Compared to say 30g of steak would get you about 9g of protein for all you chewing.) There’s no fine print, just a lot of missing print, hence the confusion. The scoop looks much too large for 30g of this powder.