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Fractions (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Leviathan 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is a great example of why volumetric recipes are inferior. With grams it's just a single weight standard across the board. I'd much rather just use a scale, when a recipe call for 50g I know I need... a scale. When a recipe calls for 75g I know I need... a scale. No need for dirtying a bunch of inaccurate measuring implements.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Did you, like me, also watch How To Cook That's video the other day?

The first 10 minutes cover the sort of problems people have when baking cookies, and - not much of a spoiler - ultimately reaches the conclusion that measuring ingredients by weight is better.

[–] Leviathan 8 points 11 months ago

I haven't seen it, but I've been baking for a long time and came to the same conclusion. One of my exes couldn't get her mom's pupusa recipe right and kept saying her mom does it differently every time, a pinch here and a splash there. So I just stuck her bag of Masa and everything else on a scale and copied her recipe, even extra dustings and splashes of water, to the gram. They all looked at me like I was an idiot. Guess who made identical pupusas every single time?