It is an understandable situation when you are completely new to the kitchen arena and you have no idea about what is what. As in, you may not know about many cooking appliances that is frequently used by chefs, cooks, and even your mom and dad while they cook for you.
Not only the appliances, you might not actually know about the measurements of particular food items and you might possibly mess up your entire dish if you do not follow the measurements to the point.
Now, you decided to surprise your family members with a dish you saw in YouTube videos based on ground beef.
But the thing is, the instruction says you need 4 ounces of ground beef to make that particular dish, but you do not have the measuring cups. Hence you are trying to figure out what a 4 ounces of ground beef seems like?
Four ounces of ground beef equals to what?
To make it simple and less complicated, you can simply use your spoon that you have in your kitchen. Remember that if you calculate your ground beef into ounces, you need to know how many spoonsful is one ounce.
Now, if you consider taking tablespoons, then one fluid ounce of ground beef is equal to two tablespoons. But how accurate is this? You can simply eyeball the measurement and use your guts to understand if this is right.
However, to do the math, you need eight tablespoons of ground beef scoops to make it four ounces. Similarly, if you use teaspoons to measure your ounces, then it will take twelve teaspoons to make it four ounces.
There are other ways to measure the ounces, but to visualize how the ground beef of four ounce would look like, then understand that your palm size is equal to three ounces of ground beef, when pressed into the shape of a burger patty.
So, to make it four ounces, you simply have to increase the length and width of your ground beef so that it covers 1/4th of your fingers.
Final Words
Measurement and eyeball games are a part of cooking. At some points, you might not have the proper utensils to cook or bake something, but you can use the eyeball technique and a few hacks to ease the process.
Try to look around your surrounding and measure them, so that the next time you try to cook something and want to know how will the food portion look like, you can see that prop and do your work.
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