Pinch (unit)
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A pinch is a small, indefinite amount of a substance, typically a powder like salt, sugar, spice, or snuff.[1] It is the "amount that can be taken between the thumb and forefinger".[2]
Some manufacturers of measuring spoons and some U.S. cookbooks give more precise equivalents, typically Page Template:Sfrac/styles.css has no content.1/16 US customary teaspoon;[3] some sources define it as Page Template:Sfrac/styles.css has no content.1/8 or Page Template:Sfrac/styles.css has no content.1/24 teaspoon.[4] There is no generally accepted standard.
| 1 US customary pinch | = | Page Template:Sfrac/styles.css has no content.1/48 | US customary tablespoon |
| = | Page Template:Sfrac/styles.css has no content.1/32 | US customary dessert spoon | |
| = | Page Template:Sfrac/styles.css has no content.1/16 | US customary teaspoon | |
| = | Page Template:Sfrac/styles.css has no content.1/8 | US customary coffee spoon | |
| = | Page Template:Sfrac/styles.css has no content.1/2 | US customary dash | |
| = | 2 | US customary smidgens | |
| ≈ | 0·022 | UK tablespoon | |
| ≈ | 0·043 | UK dessert spoon | |
| ≈ | 0·087 | UK teaspoon | |
| ≈ | 0·17 | UK salt spoon | |
| ≈ | 0·35 | UK pinch | |
| ≈ | 0·02 | international metric tablespoon | |
| ≈ | 0·015 | Australian metric tablespoon | |
| ≈ | 0·031 | metric dessert spoon | |
| ≈ | 0·062 | metric teaspoon |
In the United Kingdom, a pinch is traditionally Page Template:Sfrac/styles.css has no content.1/2 UK salt spoon,[5] the equivalence of Page Template:Sfrac/styles.css has no content.1/4 UK teaspoon. Page Template:Sfrac/styles.css has no content.1/2 UK salt spoon is an amount of space that can accommodate 15 British imperial minims (Page Template:Sfrac/styles.css has no content.1/4 British imperial fluid drachm or Page Template:Sfrac/styles.css has no content.1/32 British imperial fluid ounce; about 14·41 US customary minims (0·24 US customary fluid dram or 0·03 US customary fluid ounce) or 0·89 millilitres) of liquid.
| 1 UK pinch | = | Page Template:Sfrac/styles.css has no content.1/16 | UK tablespoon |
| = | Page Template:Sfrac/styles.css has no content.1/8 | UK dessert spoon | |
| = | Page Template:Sfrac/styles.css has no content.1/4 | UK teaspoon | |
| = | Page Template:Sfrac/styles.css has no content.1/2 | UK salt spoon | |
| ≈ | 0·06 | US customary tablespoon | |
| ≈ | 0·09 | US customary dessert spoon | |
| ≈ | 0·18 | US customary teaspoon | |
| ≈ | 0·36 | US customary coffee spoon | |
| ≈ | 0·72 | US customary salt spoon | |
| ≈ | 1·44 | US customary dashes | |
| ≈ | 2·88 | US customary pinches | |
| ≈ | 5·76 | US customary smidgens | |
| ≈ | 0·059 | international metric tablespoon | |
| ≈ | 0·044 | Australian metric tablespoon | |
| ≈ | 0·089 | metric dessert spoon | |
| ≈ | 0·18 | metric teaspoon |
References
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary s.v., definition 12
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rowlett, Russ (December 2003). "Units: P". How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
recently kitchen supply stores... have begun selling sets of "minispoons" in which the spoon labeled "pinch" is designed to hold exactly 1/2 dash or 1/16 teaspoon, which is roughly 0.01 fluid ounce or 0.3 milliliter.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rowlett, Russ (December 1998). "Units: P". How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Archived from the original on December 3, 1998.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Size So Totally Doesn't Matter". OChef. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ^ Page 14, Good Things in England (1932)
