Just a super quick question about salad dressing: I use the cap of the salad dressing bottle to measure out 2 tbsp of dressing(runs about 35-45 calories with the brand I buy). Is a cap about a tbsp?
Probably every salad dressing cap will hold a different volume. If you don't like measuring dressing the conventional way, why not take a tablespoon measuring spoon, fill it with water, and see how many tablespoons it takes to fill up your cap?
I am not sure. I use a measuring spoon myself though admitedly, I just recently started doing so. Before I was doing an "eye" measure..my eyes are much bigger than I thought!
I have four different salad dressings in my refrigerator, and each has a different sized cap. One holds at least 2 tablespoons (a large bottle of ranch dressing) and one doesn't even hold a teaspoon.
If you have a cup measure with ounces on it, two tablespoons would be an ounce. A quarter cup measure would contain 8 tablespoons, so you can measure out capfuls of water into the measuring cup, to estimate it's size.
Another option, is using regular spoons from your silverware drawer. The smaller one is usually about a tsp, and the larger one, is usually about a tbs (in fact, they're usually also called teaspoons and tablespoons). They're not as precise as the measuring spoons, but they'll probably be more accurate than the salad dressing cap.
Measuring salad dressing
Some quarter cups are more equal than others ...
