how many grams in a teaspoon of barley?

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• How many grams in a teaspoon of barley?
  About 4.5 g per level teaspoon of raw pearl or hulled barley. Three teaspoons make a tablespoon, so you can verify by checking that 3 × 4.48 lands at 13.44 g — the King Arthur chart values line up. For toasted or puffed barley the weight drops to roughly 1.5-2 g per teaspoon since the kernels expand and trap air.
• How much barley do I need to start a sprouting jar?
  One to two teaspoons of raw hulled barley — about 5-9 g — is plenty for a quart sprouting jar. Pearl barley won't sprout because the germ is polished off; you need hulled barley with the bran intact. Soak overnight, drain, and rinse twice daily for 2-3 days until you see tails. The grains roughly double in volume.
• Is a teaspoon of barley enough to thicken a soup?
  Not really — 4.5 g of dry barley releases only a trace of starch and adds maybe a dozen kernels to the pot. For thickening, you want at least a quarter cup (about 54 g) so the released amylopectin can bind the liquid. A teaspoon does work as a finishing texture in a clear broth, where you toast the kernels first and float them on top.

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