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Old 04-24-2008, 04:21 PM
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Default Geletin: Powdered vs. Sheet

It has been a while since I've worked with geletin so please forgive the basic question. I have a boxes of sheet geletin, and almost every formula I have calls for powdered, and gives tsp. measurements. How do I translate. Am I right in thinking by weight they are the same? The sheets seem so light as to be hard to weigh. Should I grind them down to a powder.

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Clown digital scale

get yourself a digital scale and measure by weight.

no need to grind up the sheets.

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one sheet=one tsp powdered.

if your recipes calls for weight . weigh the sheets on a digital scale.


*there are different strengths in sheet gelatin, but i have yet to enounter a problem.
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there are several strenght's of sheet gelatin the blue box is strong then you get into silver and paltinum ,and i think bronze ,what are you making and how tight dose it need to be?you can always add more .
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