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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] 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you bake regularly then this is a popular opinion. I generally won’t bother with a recipe that does not have the weights.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

But then you bake REALLY regularly, and you don't follow recipes anymore. I know exactly what the doughs and batters look like and how they pour. I know how adding sugar and water will loosen up the batter. I know exactly how the pizza flour should ocillate between the dough hook and the walls of the bowl.

It's like this bell curve of measuring

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What, I'm supposed to use my kitchen scale for something other than cocaine?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

A cup of cocaine please.

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

Scale, fancy. I just keep going until the feelings disappear.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

You're doing it right. The scale is for selling not measuring doses.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago
  • 2 cups of flour
  • 1oz of water
  • 50g of salt
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

So go to Europe.

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

The only exception to this should be militers/liters. Because if you have to use, as example, 1l of milk, this would, if you want to be exact, be about 1.05kg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Any recipe that gives me the ingredients in weight is my mortal enemy. Most sites I've been to now have a one click conversion for metric or Imperial

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