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• How many grams in a teaspoon of cornstarch?
  About 2.33 g level. Recipes that call for 1 teaspoon cornstarch in a cookie dough — a common trick for chewy texture — are counting on that small dose to bind moisture without adding starchy flavor. A heaped teaspoon delivers nearly double, and you'll notice it as a faint pastiness on the finish.
• Why a teaspoon of cornstarch in cookie dough?
  It absorbs a little of the egg's water and softens the gluten network, giving you the thick, slightly underbaked center that chocolate chip cookie recipes describe as soft-baked. Two teaspoons (about 4.7 g) per 2 cups of flour is the ratio in most chewy-cookie recipes; more than that and the cookies edge toward shortbread density.
• Can a teaspoon of cornstarch stabilize whipped cream?
  Yes. Whisk 1 teaspoon (2.33 g) cornstarch with 1 tablespoon of the cold cream, warm gently until it clears, cool, then fold back into the rest before whipping. One cup of cream stabilized this way holds its piped shape on a cake for several hours in a cool kitchen instead of weeping after thirty minutes.

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