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[–] 88 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yep, only liquids should be measured in volume, since liquids do not compress

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    no thank you give me the measurement in weight so i can have a digital read on it and not have to use my disgusting human eyeball to estimate

    also so that i don't have to re-wash and dry my one measuring spoon 5 times

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    1L of water/milk = 1kg. This holds true for most liquids that are measured by volume in metric recipes.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Until one day you have to bake 3,000 Stroopwafels to save the local coffee shop** and you realize that your kitchen scale is about to become the stickiest object known to mankind because you don't know how much more liquids with super high viscosity weigh per liter..

    **specific situation may vary based on how many tulips YOUR country produces per square kilometer.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Those wouldn't be liquids but solids, no?

    But I respect the effort in bringing up a stupidly extreme theoretical situation that you'd never encounter in your kitchen

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There is a Polish website https://kalkulatorkuchenny.pl/, where you type, say, 1 teaspoon of sugar (łyżeczka cukru) and it will convert it to mass, volume, spoon and number of glasses. I'm pretty sure, there is an English language alternative, but didn't find any

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    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.

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