How to Measure a Cup of Flour (with cups or scale)
Learn how to measure a cup of flour accurately with measuring cups or a scale. Also learn how much flour is in a cup in grams, how to store flour, and tricks with alternate flours such as almond flour, tigernut flour, oat flour, quinoa flour and more.
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Instructions
Measure with cups
Make sure flour and tools are at room temperature.
Put a dry spoon or fork in the bag or canister for flour and work it up and down to fluff the flour, and get some air in it.
Set a metal or plastic measuring cup on a dish or cutting board.
Spoon flour into the cup until it has a mountain of overflow on top and all side crevices are full, no gaps.
Take a dry knife with a blunt side and run it over the top of the cup so the flour is leveled off evenly. Add the spillage back to the bag if it dropped on something clean.
Add the accurately measured cup of flour to a bowl and continue on with your recipe.
Measure flour with a scale
Make sure flour and tools are at room temperature.
Add a measuring cup to the scale and follow instructions to zero off the cup so the scale reads 00 grams and subtracts the weight of the cup.
OR just add the measuring cup to the scale and weigh it for grams and write down the number.
Spoon flour into the cup until the gram number reaches what you want (128 grams for 1 cup of all purpose flour, for example).
If you zeroed off, that number is correct. If you did not zero off, add enough flour so the screen reads 128 grams + the weight of the cup that you wrote down.
Either way, that's your flour measurement, so add it to a bowl and continue with your recipe.
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Notes
Be sure the spoon and knife you use are dry.Be sure your flour is at room temperature for most accurate results.Be sure the dish you drop spillage on is clean and dry - if so you can add the spillage back to the bag. If the surface is suspect, do not add the spilled flour back to the bag.