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[-] punkwalrus@lemmy.world 88 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 2 months ago

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

[-] whenyellowstonehasitsday@fedia.io 45 points 2 months ago

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

[-] VonReposti@feddit.dk 16 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Deze commentaarsectie is hierbij overgenomen door het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden.

[-] whenyellowstonehasitsday@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

yeah it's what i use, but if i was happy with less than perfection i'd be using volume in the first place

[-] VitaminF@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago
[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

True, but it's less than a 10% difference. There's a very big chance the recipe will work out either way

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago
[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Well I'm unsure about Ice III, but Ice VI definitely is strange.

Of course my hyperbolic point was really that you can compress a liquid.

[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 12 points 2 months ago

Yep, everything in weight. It works so well.

[-] nawordar@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

These are approximations at best. Not every flour type has the same density and even the same type can differ as the thread op pointed out.

[-] nawordar@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I didn't read carefully, sorry. Anyway, you can specify the type of flour there, so it's a bit more precise

[-] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

I assume flour can have a lot of moisture weight to it, which may change depending on the location or season. Weight is still the better measure, but still not perfect.

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