15 grams

[BillySugger]

How do I measure 15g of butter without scales ? A teaspoon , tablespoon ?

[puddicat]

25grams is about a ounce!!!

[BillySugger]

& an ounce is ....a teaspoon ? a tablespoon?

[enfable]

Look at the weight of the block of butter cut it in half and you have half the weight. Cut it in half and you half the weight again (1/4 origional weight) keep doing this until you have approx 15 grams or 3 x 5grams approx. reciepes are just guidelines you can adjust quantities to suit your tastes so you don't need to be 100% accurate.

[Jugglering]

Billy... if you have a tape measure and cold butter, it's a little block that measures approx 30mm x 25mm x 20mm... well a block that shape weighed 15g in my scales! If it's melted butter, then it's a tablespoonful, plus a little bit ! (I melted the same block and poured it into my measuring spoons and it filled the 15ml / tablespoon with a little bit, about a half teaspoonful, left over). I'd go with enfable's idea about cutting a block of cold butter down and go from there.

[mumof3angels]

Most blocks of butter have 50g measurements on the edge of the paper it's wrapped in. It's not hard to estimate 15g from there.

[BillySugger]

It's actually a 1kg tub of margarine which is about 1/4 full ....

[NiceCupOfTea]

Just stick in a tablespoon full - make it so it's sticking over the top half as much as it fills below in the bowl of the spoon.

What on earth is this for by the way? Most cookery is never that exact......

[BillySugger]

Thanks at last ! It's only pasta in tomato & onion sauce in a packet . I just couldn't guess

[Jugglering]

LOL.. Billy - but you wrote *butter* in your original question and since most butter comes in blocks.... we all assumed you were using butter in a block !

I have just measured out 3 level teaspoonfuls of Utterly Butterly and that weighed 15g.

Note, this is a measured teaspoon, not an ordinary one from cutlery drawer. I'd need 3 heaped cutlery drawer teaspoonfuls of Utterly Butterly to give me 15g.

[BillySugger]

Butter/margarine potatoe/potato

[Jugglering]

LOL Billy.... I must disagree - butter is a totally different *critter* to marg.... different source material, different taste, different uses. The only common factor to me is that both can be used on toast, but so can peanut butter, nutella, jam, marmalade hehe.. I would never put marg on a jacket potato or on vegetables or use it for frying food.