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[–] caesaravgvstvs@feddit.org 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

When you start using it to bake and you just set the bowl on the scale and just put all the (hopefully rounded) amounts of ingredients in there, it starts to feel so easy!

It even goes for liquids, because the volume difference for most is negligible

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[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

For baking metric is the only way.

Also you can tall the people that never did coke as they don't know what a gram of powder looks like... So I'm told...

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[–] caesaravgvstvs@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

It's not like I haven't found a very dusty tiny scale on the street that I still use to measure baking powder

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[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Do you actually put herbs and spices in your cooking by measurement? No shade, just genuine interest.

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[–] comador@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

When you grow up cooking a certain way and then get forced into doing it a different way, it's hard to just 'do' it without measuring first.

Growing up, I learned using imperial measurements and can eye just about anything needed. However, when I transitioned to living in the UK, I couldn't eye what was needed because my brain just couldn't measure it the same in my head, so yeah, I had to measure it.

The same holds true in reverse btw as my mates have told me when going across the pond.

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[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago

Interesting

When I cook I barely ever measure anything and just cook by feeling. I read a recipe and then do what feels right for me with it.

Herbs and spices I add very little first and then taste it and add more and so on.

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[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

I'm from Europe and I've never heard of someone measuring herbs
It's usually also just like a pinch, a teaspoon or a buttload

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[–] comador@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child)

Most of the ready meals tasted like moosh to me, so I never bought them. And I can't remember if they were asda or tesco brand, but there were a few prepackaged box meals I used to buy to make at home that measured herbs, which is where I got frustrated.

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[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 month ago*

Ah, ok

I pretty much never buy anything ready made

I just look up a recipe, buy stuff and cook - and herbs and spices come in as we like

Usually I take a receipt only as an option and orientate myself with that. Like how long stuff needs to be cooked, and at what point which stuff needs to get added.
But I don't follow them on point - maybe the first time I'm trying something, but usually I already have an idea on what I like it to taste, and just follow it roughly

Takes some experimentation what works and what not, but imho that's exactly where the fun in cooking is

(And until the last sentence I wasn't sure, if you answered to the wrong comment, because ready made meals usually taste like shit and I never promoted them - not on purpose at least)