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Why arent more cooking recipes in weight (grams) not volume (tsp/cups)
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Date: December 8th, 2022 10:47 PM Author: Orange Market way easier to cook if the recipe is in weight. just get out a scale and pour each thing in and then tare it. dont have to wash/rewash a bunch of measuring spoons and cups. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45606851) |
Date: December 8th, 2022 10:47 PM Author: soul-stirring amber rehab Because the metric system is for fags (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45606856) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 10:49 PM Author: rambunctious puppy oz are fine for anything but tiny quantities, fag. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45606864) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 10:50 PM Author: Orange Market (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45606876) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 11:04 PM Author: soul-stirring amber rehab That's why we have teaspoons and tablespoons you dog eating commie (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45606965) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 10:48 PM Author: rambunctious puppy I agree and buying a cooking scale changed my life but most Americans don't have one and you have to cater to the proles.
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Date: December 8th, 2022 10:49 PM Author: frisky den main people Kitchen scales are now both cheap and easy to use. That wasn't the case for all of human history (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45606874) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 10:51 PM Author: Orange Market why dont these $60 GC fancy cookbooks have shit in grams then (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45606883) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 10:58 PM Author: frisky den main people No idea what you bought but a lot of the newest publications are using grams. Serious Eats does (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45606926) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 11:01 PM Author: Orange Market i didnt buy anything. ive just seen a million cookbooks at the bookstore and on cooking blogs. they rarely have grams. good to know re serious eats. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45606946) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 11:06 PM Author: Provocative costumed public bath elastic band cr point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45606974) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 10:54 PM Author: 180 know-it-all idea he suggested piazza (me in the kitchen every day wondering this) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45606896) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 11:05 PM Author: Boyish grizzly weed whacker Very few recipes require or were even designed for that level of precision except for baking for which any serious recipe will be by weight
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Date: December 8th, 2022 11:07 PM Author: Orange Market its not about precision. it's about speed and not cleaning a bunch of cups/spoons (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45606978) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 11:17 PM Author: Boyish grizzly weed whacker If you can pour it into a bowl you can pour it into a measuring cup above your bowl assuming you aren’t just eyeballing it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607040) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 11:19 PM Author: Orange Market its hard to pour spices into a 1/4 tsp or 1/2 tsp without spilling shit all over (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607053) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 11:28 PM Author: frisky den main people I mean, you still need teaspoons for dried spices because kitchen scales usually don't have sub-gram precision & even recipes that give weight measurements for most ingredients will omit the weights of spices (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607076) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 11:42 PM Author: Orange Market true. but why cant they mass produce kitchen scales that would work in 1/10 of a gram or whatever (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607131) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 11:50 PM Author: frisky den main people I just looked and there are a lot now with sub-gram precision for cheap. I could almost swear that when I got my kitchen scale a few years back, the more precise scales were priced more for lab equipment or drug dealers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607167) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 12:37 AM Author: excitant blathering locale karate Why the fuck would you care about this? What possible ingredient needs that? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607352) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 12:41 AM Author: frisky den main people Can you not read? We are talking about measuring dry spices (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607367) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 12:44 AM Author: excitant blathering locale karate Learn to spice food you retard, it’s called taste (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607386) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 12:56 AM Author: frisky den main people When saffron is $80 for 14g and a scale with sub-gram precision is $16, why would you not use a scale? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607428) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 12:57 AM Author: excitant blathering locale karate ljl, yes all ingredients should be measured in grams because you’re debating between two or three threads of saffron, which is basically tasteless (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607436) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 1:00 AM Author: frisky den main people It's "basically tasteless" because you're not using enough.
If you used a scale, you might actually be able to use the correct amount! |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 1:01 AM Author: excitant blathering locale karate When you spice a dish you put in how much *you* want, that’s the full measure (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607446) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 4:18 PM Author: frisky den main people Look, obviously seasoning to taste is the cr for most dishes. But there are some dishes where it's essentially impossible to season to taste.
Using the example of saffron - if you don't get enough of it into a risotto right from the start, you're basically fucked.
At some point you need to be starting from some sort of baseline measurement (either volume or mass). Mass happens to be superior a ton of the time. |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 5:17 PM Author: Orange Market lol ur such a dumb fuck. people often cook recipes theyve never made before or cuisines they're not familiar with, and they dont know how much they need (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45610343) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 5:26 PM Author: excitant blathering locale karate And approximately half a teaspoon or whatever is plenty specific, you really just proportions right after the learn to cook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45610406) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 6:58 AM Author: Orange Market typical xo shut-in virgin take
a white person making some turd recipe w 12 dry spices cant "just lean to spice food" |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 1:13 AM Author: azure disgusting filthpig hospital if you're talking about amazon junk they can just lie. no use being precise without accuracy. it's like those flash drives they hack to display mad terabytes when you plug them in but it's impossible to fill that much (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607455) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 4:43 PM Author: frisky den main people It's true that the cheap amazon stuff probably doesn't work as well as it could. But at some point you can intuit that it is doing *something* right. If you tare it and throw a dash of something onto it and the numbers change, it's close enough for golf.
The scale I have displays gram precision, and it's kind of maddening sometimes. I need 9g of salt for a dough. I pour onto the scale, get it up to 8g, add what certainly seems like at least a gram and the number doesn't fucking change |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 11:08 PM Author: rambunctious puppy it way quicker to measure out 18 oz of onion and then chop them than to chop up onions to fill out '2 cups'. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45606991) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 11:16 PM Author: Boyish grizzly weed whacker You’re not intended to, you’re supposed to just eyeball it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607033) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 11:39 PM Author: cobalt aphrodisiac trailer park police squad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607119) |
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Date: December 8th, 2022 11:06 PM Author: Provocative costumed public bath elastic band i'm with you, grams is the way to go (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45606973) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 12:19 AM Author: spruce hairraiser juggernaut “Cooking” is for women and fags (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607290) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 12:34 AM Author: frisky den main people (pumo scum) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607341) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 12:47 AM Author: spruce hairraiser juggernaut You’ll make a great housewife one day, lil brehlette (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607393) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 6:58 AM Author: Orange Market another xo shut-in virgin take (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607790) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 10:49 PM Author: Provocative costumed public bath elastic band (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45611498) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 12:20 AM Author: excitant blathering locale karate Outside of baking no actual chef or good cook measures a goddam thing down to the gram, it’s just for birdbrains who can’t cook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607298) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 12:36 AM Author: Boyish grizzly weed whacker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607349) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 12:23 AM Author: flesh electric resort one rabbit or chicken in a pot takes a handful of spices.
potatoes and cabbage you taste until done.
i dont know about recipes |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 12:57 AM Author: Embarrassed to the bone vibrant native gaping If you bake you weigh it. Otherwise you can be imprecise. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5249920&forum_id=2#45607433) |
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Date: December 9th, 2022 4:31 PM Author: frisky den main people This is kind of laughable. I mean, it's technically true that you can go pretty far into cooking without a scale.
The reality though is that any halfway competent home chef is going to eventually have an interest in making something that heavily overlaps with baking. Pancakes, pizza crusts, etc... |