My Measuring Guides for Cooking

I thought it wise to do a post on the measuring guides that I use in my cooking. I'm simply a home cook and not a trained chef (don't intend to become one either!), so a lot of times while I do just eyeball my measurements, the items in the above pic are really the only guides I use.

Granted, I don't use the spoons all the time, but I'm usually able to accurately gauge what a spoonful and teaspoonful of spices look like. The measuring cups I typically only use when baking and using flour or something of the sort.

So, if for instance, in a post, you see 1/2 a teaspoon (tsp), I simply mean half of a regular eating teaspoon. You know, the kind that comes when you buy a set of eating utensils/cutlery. Same thing applies for 1/2 a tablespoon (tbsp).

The above measuring guides (2nd pic) are part of a set and in all honesty, I've never used them before, if you can tell, they're a bit dusty from storage.

Whenever I read recipes, I don't like seeing complicated (for me at least) measurements. For instance, you might read a recipe and it calls for 1/8th of a cup or some odd number. It literally turns me off and I just forget the recipe or if the dish looks like one I really like, I'll just remember the spices used and then eyeball how much needed myself.

That's why most, if not all of my recipes have easy to use measurements, nothing overly complicated and something everyone can use or create at home themselves without getting confused.

You can usually find these measuring cups at grocery stores. I got mine from Walmart a while ago, but they usually have these and it can be found in their cooking aisle.

Hope this helps someone out there!