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All baking recipe ingredients should be in weight, not volume. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/unpopularopinion

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I'm tired of guessing which country the author is from when they use cup measurement and how densely they put flour in it.

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[–] evasive_chimpanzee 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Stop getting recipes from whatever random source pops up in Google, and start getting recipes directly from sources you trust. Reputable test kitchens usually use mass for recipes, and at least the ones I look at will also include volumetric measurements for people who prefer them.

The thing with baking, though, is that there are many ingredients that require below gram level accuracy, and for those, volumetric measurements are more accurate for most people who have scales with a gram resolution.

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 2 points 6 days ago

Highly recommend this book for baking for this and many reasons. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/250188/the-bread-bakers-apprentice-15th-anniversary-edition-by-peter-reinhart/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My personal favorite experience relating to this was buying some ice cream with nutritional information by the milliliter, but with serving size by the gram...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Here it's nutrition information by the gram, serving size by the gram, packaging by the millilitre.
The only way you can compare the relative value of different ice creams is by using the serving size and # servings info from the nutrition panel to calculate the grams per package. (Or even better, comparing g/fat per package because that's where the value is).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah, it was something along those lines. I don't remember the exact specifics. I don't really understand why that is. I guess it's because they're copying and pasting nutritional information from the tubs where it's more properly measured by volume. But one would think that regulations would require the same units for serving size and nutritional information. Or at least the same type of unit (mass/volume).

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