Measuring weights in volumes, today I found a recipe with 7/8 cups of butter, how do you measure that, putting your cup on a scale, filling it to the top and scoop than 1/8 out again ? Or a question above, 4 cups of chopped apple, exact, that is like asking for a perpetium mobile (a machine that works for ever without adding energie), an imposibility, the person who made that recipe should have added the size of the chopped parts, and than it can not work, if one is using a tall measuring cup of a wide one. Since I started looking for recipes on the internet, I have been wondering about american cooking. Didn’t work at all! Technique aside, I’m convinced this is due to the huge variations in how people measure their ingredients using imperial measurement. No fail! But there are also reviewers of the same recipe saying the exact opposite.
If you read the reviews of a recipe, in almost every case, there will be reviewers saying this was the best thing ever. This is honestly what made me change my mind about weight measurement. If you need 3 or 4 cups, this can make a huge difference in the outcome. I wondered if converting a recipe is really an attempt to make something that is inherently imprecise more accurate by using weight? What I mean to say is that if the author of a recipe has a heavy hand scooping flour into a cup, the weight of this “cup” can be a range of 140 – 180 gm. I’ve converted some recipes to metric and found they didn’t work.
My baking recipes turn out so much better. Once I tried it, I am a convert and believer in weight measurement vs.
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