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Pinch (unit)

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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
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Some manufacturers of measuring spoons and some U.S. cookbooks give more precise equivalents, typically
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is a small, indefinite amount of a substance, typically a powder like
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Pinch (disambiguation)
salt
sugar
spice
snuff
teaspoon
Oxford English Dictionary
s.v.
"Units: P"
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Units: P"
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Archived
"Size So Totally Doesn't Matter"
Stub icon
standards
measurement
stub
expanding it
v
t
e
Categories
Customary units of measurement
Cooking weights and measures
Units of volume
Standards and measurement stubs

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