shortening conversion

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Amount: 1 dekagram (dkg - dag - deka) of shortening mass
Equals: 0.022 pounds (lb) in shortening mass

shortening from dekagram to pound Conversion Results:

Enter a New dekagram Amount of shortening to Convert From * Whole numbers, decimals or fractions (ie: 6, 5.33, 17 3/8) * Precision is how many numbers after decimal point (1 - 9)

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Work out pounds in shortening per 1 dekagram unit. The shortening converter for cooks, chefs, culinary arts classes, students and for home kitchen use.

TOGGLE :   from pounds into dekagrams in the other way around.

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Shortening (vegetable based)

A shortening is a solid fat, at room temperature, which is used to make/bake certain pastries and sweets. By using shortening the pastry will not be soft nor elastic, instead it will be set or in other-words crumbly. Such effects are often desired. The volume to weight conversion for vegetable shortening is 1 US cup to 205 grams, or 1 US cup to 7.2 ounces (oz) net weight, at its solid consistency.

Convert shortening culinary measuring units between dekagram (dkg - dag - deka) and pounds (lb) of shortening but in the other direction from pounds into dekagrams.

Culinary arts school: shortening conversion

This online culinary shortening from dkg - dag - deka into lb converter is a handy tool not only for experienced certified professionals in food businesses and skilled chefs in state of the industry's kitchens model.

Other applications of this shortening converter are ...

With the above mentioned units converting service it provides, this shortening converter also proved to be useful as a teaching tool and for practising dekagrams and pounds ( dkg - dag - deka vs. lb ) conversion exercises by new culinarians and students (in classrooms or at home kitchens) who have been learning this particular cooking mastery art in culinary colleges, in schools of culinary arts and all other kinds of culinary training for converting weights and liquid/fluid volume measurements as well as dietary food value contained in shortening with its nutritional values we eat.

Unit symbols used by international culinary educational institutions and training for these two shortening measures are:

Prefix or abbreviation ( abbr. ) brevis - short unit symbol for dekagram is: dkg - dag - deka
Prefix or abbreviation ( abbr. short brevis ) unit symbol for pound is: lb

One dekagram of shortening converted to pound equals to 0.022 lb

How many pounds of shortening are in 1 dekagram? The answer is: The change of 1 dkg - dag - deka ( dekagram ) unit in a shortening measure equals = into 0.022 lb ( pound ) as per the equivalent measure and for the same shortening type.

Professional people always ensure, and their success in fine cooking depends on, they get the most precise units conversion results in measuring their ingredients. In speciality cooking a measure of shortening can be crucial. If there is an exact measure in dkg - dag - deka - dekagrams for shortening, it's the rule in culinary career, that the dekagram portion number gets converted into lb - pounds of shortening absolutely exactly. It's like an insurance for the master chef for having always all the meals created perfectly.

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