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Reputation: 628

How are you supposed to measure whip cream?

If the label says that one tablespoon is so many calories, how do you even measure the whip cream? Like, how high can you pile the whip cream in a tablespoon? I can probably make it pretty high before it crashes, but I think that they probably don't mean to measure it so that it is piled as high as it can go. Do you level off the spoon and that is your tablespoon? If so, that isn't very much whip, because whip is so fluffy. That is like not even a whole squirt!

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  • George_bw_01_headshot_small
    Reputation: 265

    One tablespoon is 1/2 fluid oz always. When any label is quoting you on a "tablespoon" they are talking about 1/2 fluid ounce, or a tablespoon leveled off. Yes, that's not much whipped cream, and yes it's caloric, but it's whipped cream!

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  • 49143_1080352492_1421411_n_small
    Reputation: 4

    If you're whipping your own cream, measure the cream before you whip it. That is the correct volume. If you're measuring whipped cream from a can, level of the measure (1/2 cup, tablespoon). Not near as accurate, but that is what's intended.

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  • Qlandav2ex_small
    Reputation: 4209

    It's measured by the Tablespoon (nutritionally for the law), served by the dollop (lump or glob) in reality.

    If you need to be measuring it, then you probably shouldn't be eating it.

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