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I'm tired of guessing which country the author is from when they use cup measurement and how densely they put flour in it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

I have had two different well-recommended scales for baking and neither does a good job measuring 1-3 grams of ingredients. Maybe I just need to spend hundreds of dollars I don’t have on some pampered chef thing….

I do have what we call the “drug scale” in our house. It can measure to 0.01g but its capacity is so low it is useless for baking. I don’t want to weigh my baking soda badly enough to get it out.

[–] ricecake 1 points 8 hours ago

https://a.co/d/ehGTxCG

I use this one, it's affordable and it does a good job.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

"coffee scales" are good for gram scale quantities

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I have one like that that goes up to 400g I think. I tried using it for measuring my creatine powder once but it wasn't sensitive enough. Trying to cook with it seems like it would be a pain in the ass unless I was making huge batches of stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds to me like you just have a bad scale?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

It can do tenths of grams. That seems pretty good to me. Just seems like it's more trouble than it's worth to do small amounts like that by weight anyway.