how many grams in a teaspoon of arrowroot flour?

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• How many grams in a teaspoon of arrowroot?
  Just under 3 g — the standard figure is 2.67 g for a level teaspoon. A heaping teaspoon hits 4-5 g. The difference sounds trivial, but for stabilizing whipped cream where the recipe calls for 1/2 teaspoon arrowroot per cup of cream, doubling that by accident leaves a faint starchy coating on the tongue.
• Why would a recipe call for arrowroot by the teaspoon?
  Single-serving pan sauces, dusting fish fillets before searing, lightly coating fruit before folding into a cake batter, or stabilizing 1 to 2 cups of whipped cream so it holds its piped shape for a few hours. At the teaspoon scale arrowroot is doing structural work, not bulk thickening.
• Can I substitute arrowroot teaspoon-for-teaspoon for cornstarch?
  Close, but cornstarch is slightly more potent as a thickener at small volumes. For a 1 teaspoon cornstarch call, use 1 to 1.5 teaspoons arrowroot. Arrowroot also tolerates acidic ingredients (lemon, vinegar, wine) better than cornstarch, which thins out in acid — so for a citrus pan sauce arrowroot is the sturdier teaspoon swap.

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