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

  • fmstrat
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    1 month ago

    Use non-American recipes.

    The rest of the world does this. And guess what, 1 milliliter of water is exactly 1 gram, unlike stupid ounces.

    • @[email protected]
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      191 month ago

      If I want a recipe in English I always end the search query with “UK” to make sure it’s in weight, not cups. I’m not a fucking toddler

      • JustEnoughDucks
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        I try that too for English recipes but then I get things in tablespoons, teaspoons, pinches, good pinches, full pinches, and small bunches.

        Or my favorite “a good knob of butter”

        At least they aren’t using stone for flour though lol.

      • fmstrat
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        11 month ago

        Geez, you and the other commenter have good timing. It was a temporary edit to mess with an active commenter. Started as gram 😉

    • @EtherWhack
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      21 month ago

      Density differs for other ingredients though.

      • @panicnow
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        51 month ago

        It does, but I would still rather use grams usually. My ice cream base recipe says 500g skim milk and 470g heavy cream. I don’t have to get a measuring cup dirty—I just pour them into the bowl.

        • Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ
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          230 days ago

          Wait, why on earth would you use skim milk in ice cream when you’re adding in basically equal parts cream anyway?

          • @panicnow
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            029 days ago

            The only thing that really matters is the average milk fat %. I like Costco’s 40% heavy cream from a price and quality standpoint. My family drinks skim milk. If I mix those two equally I will end up with about 20% fat which makes a very nice ice cream.

            • Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ
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              129 days ago

              Yeah I guess if you already have skim milk around the house then that makes sense.

      • fmstrat
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        11 month ago

        Hah, that was a temporary edit to mess with the other commenter 😉 Good timing for you I guess.

    • @[email protected]
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      -41 month ago

      That’s more an issue of its too hard for you to learn, then. Also, for cooking, that’s great that 1ml of water weighs 1mg. Why does that help with cooking? All the weights of everything else will be different from that. It’s much quicker and easier to use a measuring cups to get half a cup of flour than it is to get a scale and weigh out 60 grams.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 month ago

        it’s much quicker and easier

        Ask any boulanger or pâtissier how to do shit baking lol

    • @yetiftw
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      -101 month ago

      one fluid ounce of water is one (weight) ounce of water

      • @[email protected]
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        281 month ago

        Except that’s not true.

        An imperial fluid ounce is 1⁄20 of an imperial pint, 1⁄160 of an imperial gallon or exactly 28.4130625 mL.

        US customary fluid ounce is 1⁄16 of a US liquid pint and 1⁄128 of a US liquid gallon or exactly 29.5735295625 mL, making it about 4.08% larger than the imperial fluid ounce.

        US food labeling fluid ounce is exactly 30 mL.

        So we have 28.4g, 29.6g or 30g of water. An ounce is 28.3g (closest to the imperial measures and neither of the US ones, despite the ounce being common to imperial and US systems)

        • @evasive_chimpanzee
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          21 month ago

          I’d consider that within the margin of error for a volumetric measurement. Especially if you are being lazy like me and measuring something like milk by weight.

          Funny enough, you made me go check my kitchen scales. They report in grams, ounces, and weirdly milliliters and fluid ounces. I used my scale that reports in hundredths of a gram to measure out exactly 1 oz mass. I then placed it on my other three scales to see what it would read. 2 of them correctly reported that they weren’t quite at 1 fluid ounce, while the other said it was. I never actually put my scales in ounce mode, though.