One revolution I have realized in baking is the recent trend to start talking about weight and not volume in recipes for certain dry ingredients like flour. Three cups of fluffy sifted flour is a lot less flour than three cups of densely packed flour. Same with brown sugar, or wondering if you need a “flat teaspoon” vs. a “heaping teaspoon” of something.
For using volume measurements (weighs are still superior tho) flour shouldn’t be packed in but spooned into the measuring device and leveled with the back of a knife but brown sugar should be packed into the measuring device.
In recipes, they’ll call for a heaped teaspoon or tablespoon, everything else is implied to be leveled, especially leavening agents like baking powder/soda. There’s also an understanding that certain things don’t need as much precision, like adding in flavoring extracts.
I also do really like the nice even 25° increments that recipes align to for farenheight.
Peel one cup of butter then add pinch of egg and stir counterfootwise at 363 degrees and serve immediately cold.
Congratulations, you’ve just created the most confusing recipe ever.
Pfffft as though we’d be so sane as measure flour by weight instead of volume
At least an oz is easily measurable. It’s worse, when they tell You to add a cup of something.
How do you measure a country so easily?
A cup is about 230 ml, so that’s a little less than a standard drinking glass of 250 ml
“I don’t understand this thing and I’m proud of it!!”
- Europeans
Bonus points if they get to shit on Americans at the same time.
Maybe the problem is that the units are actually US customary and you’re dicking up all of your conversions
Imagine feeling actual hatred toward a system of measurement.
I prefer using volumetric measurements like cups or teaspoons when baking. Liters or ml would also work.
why?
Not op, but for small quantities, volumetric is usually more accurate. I know a teaspoon of yeast weighs about 3 grams, but most cheap kitchen scales can’t really be trusted until you’re measuring 10 grams or or more. A teaspoon of dried oregano is so light it probably doesn’t even register on most cheap kitchen scales.
Hmmm yes flour is packed or unpacked? How dense?
LMAO cookies are made at 350 or below due to high sugar content
Your pathetic european gas mark stove probably can’t heat below 375
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