"scoop" on whey protein

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furia101

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hi, i just bought some whey protein powder and I'm having some trouble on the amount i should take. The instructions on the container says 2 scoops (approximately 33g). I have no idea how much that is.

Can anyone give an approximation on how much 33g in respect to millimetres or in respect to teaspoons? tablespoons?
 
First, there should be a scoop in there. If there isn't, 33 grams is about 2.3 tablespoons, or 6.9 teaspoons.

But there really should be a scoop in there.
 
furia101 said:
hi, i just bought some whey protein powder and I'm having some trouble on the amount i should take. The instructions on the container says 2 scoops (approximately 33g). I have no idea how much that is.

Can anyone give an approximation on how much 33g in respect to millimetres or in respect to teaspoons? tablespoons?
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Did you try looking for a scoop in it? Also, grams are units of mass, while teaspoons and tablespoons are units of volume. A millimeter is a unit of distance. (what?!) Therefore, we cannot convert grams to millimeters, teaspoons, or tablespoons any more than we can convert pounds to gallons or quarts to miles.

I am confident a scoop is in the container. If not, return it, or use a digital kitchen scale that can measure grams.
 
Adler1983 said:
33 grams can be converted to ounces which can then be converted to tablespoons.
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No. Units of mass cannot be converted to units of volume.

For example, a tablespoon of water will have less mass than a tablespoon of mercury, but more mass than a tablespoon of ash. I think you are confusing fluid ounces with avoirdupois ounces. Fluid ounces are measures of volume, while avoirdupois ounces are measures of weight.

I am surprised you made this blunder. Aren't you the same guy who said that muscle doesn't weigh more than fat because "a pound is a pound"?
 
Tanizaki said:
No. Units of mass cannot be converted to units of volume.

For example, a tablespoon of water will have less mass than a tablespoon of mercury, but more mass than a tablespoon of ash. I think you are confusing fluid ounces with avoirdupois ounces. Fluid ounces are measures of volume, while avoirdupois ounces are measures of weight.

I am surprised you made this blunder. Aren't you the same guy who said that muscle doesn't weigh more than fat because "a pound is a pound"?
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you can convert mass to volume if you get density first.

D=m/v
 
jmanjman47 said:
A pound is a pound. I never understood that either.
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Yes, I think it is pretty clear that in colloquial speech, when someone says, "Oil is lighter than water", they mean that oil is less dense than water. That's why no one thinks twice about referring to blimps as lighter-than-air aircraft.
 
Tanizaki said:
Yes, we can. However, the FDA does not require food manufacturers to list the density of their products, and therefore, it rarely appears on the label.
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If the poster has the "digital kitchen scale that can measure grams" that you are talking about, then he can find the mass of a certain volume of the powder and therefore find density.

With the density he can now perform a bunch of calculations to convert all that ****.


Well, I'm straying from the point of the question because if he found the mass in grams, he wouldnt' need to do anytihng else. hahaha, guess ur right.


Anyway, the scoop is sometimes halfway down there, so dig around.
 
thanks for the help guys, the scoop was in there after all.... but burried so deep I couldn't find it at all at first
 
lol

good thing to hear it here, hasnt happened to me yet but i know i would be going crazy lol like i know there should be one in there but there isnt lol and then start a thread like this or something lol
 
Every time I get a new barrel of powder, I move a chopstick through it to find the scoop. It's quick and saves me the trouble of starting threads like this one.
 
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