Knife point
a pinch of salt
A knife point is a unit of measurement named after the point of the knife blade , common for powdered substances , in use in prescriptions and dosage recommendations for powdered medicines . The common abbreviation for this in recipes is Msp .
amount
For medication, it describes the amount of powder that remains on the front centimeter of the tip of a conventional cutlery knife when the knife is dipped into the powder and lifted out horizontally. This corresponds to approx. 0.1-0.5 g powder. In cooking recipes , the tip of a knife denotes a small amount of a substance, a little more than a pinch . The knife point is a very imprecise unit of measurement.
literature
- Adolf Durst: Basics of the doctrine of medicinal doses and dosological arithmetic in relation to the internal use of remedies. Verlag Seitz & Schauer, 1895, pp. 159, 160, 163.
Web links
Wiktionary: Knife tip - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ↑ knife point. In: JG von Krünitz: Economic Encyclopedia. 1773 - 1858, on: kruenitz1.uni-trier.de
- ↑ Kitchen dimensions - kitchen weights - weight conversions. ( Memento from April 22, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) at: rezepte.nit.at
- ↑ Helmut Halfmann: Das Küchenschaben cookbook. BoD, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-6524-9 , p. 112.