Learning by cooking

  Virtually all of the recipes that we cook, must be measured before. When measuring, children compare and make calculations and learn the relation between the parts and the whole. When you make a mixture you can use another way to measure: with the spoons to check how many small spoons fit in a large; or add the total of measuring cups used in a recipe. Measurements are essential skills that help the child to develop the most complex mathematical skills such as geometry and algebra. That is why a good way to learn those skills is by making a recipe. 

What utensils do we need to measure ingredients?

Scale

We can weigh the mass of the
ingredients in grams (g). Is the basic utensil for your kitchen, so get hold of it!

Measuring spoons

This utensils are useful to measure liquids and ingredients in pounder in small quantity. The biggest’s capacity use to be 15 ml and the smallest 1,25 ml.

Measuring cups

Is interesting to use the cups, because there are some recipes that measure the list of ingredients in cups, so, we will need them. It is used for big quantities. The biggest use to be 240 ml.

Measuring mugs

The mugs are less precise than the other utensils. It is useful to measure liquids and ingredients in pounder. It has various scales that allows us to measure in the international system (ml) and also imperial (oz).

Thermometer

If we want to make elaborated recipes with caramel, merengue or chocolate, to measure the temperature is going to be very important. There are thermometers prepared for cooking.