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Simple Syrup...grams of sugar?
- Thread starter Roguejim
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Roguejim said:
One teaspoon of sugar has 4 grams. There are 6 teaspoons in one fluid ounce, so it should be 24 grams of sugar in one ounce of simple syrup. But that seems like a lot to me, so maybe my conversion is wrong.
I cup sugar 200gr, /8 = sugar/oz then convert to grams.
salsalady
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not unless the sugar was weighed to 8 oz...which is about 225 grams...which is more than 1 cup by volume.tctenten said:
although...when looking at the Chile Pepper Weights And Measures thread, 1 cup of white granular sugar weighed 206 grams, which is kinda close....
206g sugar + 225 g (1 cup) water= about 12 liquid oz
206g sugar/12 liquid oz = 17 grams sugar per liquid oz
( NOT BASED ON ACTUAL MEASUREMENTS! ) just a W.A.G.
wild ass guess.....
It's my latest understanding that 6.9ml (.23oz) of the simple syrup is equal to 1 tsp sugar. So, 1oz simple syrup equals about 4tsp, or ~16 grams. If that's correct, that's a buttload of sugar.
EDIT: Sugar was not weighed initially. Just eyeballed in a measuring cup.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cocktails/comments/3d2k2v/converting_sugar_to_simple_syrup/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=comment_list
EDIT: Sugar was not weighed initially. Just eyeballed in a measuring cup.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cocktails/comments/3d2k2v/converting_sugar_to_simple_syrup/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=comment_list
In my experience with things like this (mostly, making soap, but also trying to figure out nutritional information for food recipes), if you want precision, go by weight, rather than by volume... both in terms of mixing the solution, and in terms of measuring it to figure out grams of sugar per ounce.
