Just spent $80 on a new digital scale and it's a total game changer

I was always the 'eyeball it' baker until my sourdough loaves kept coming out different every time. I finally caved and bought a decent digital scale for about eighty bucks. My recipe calls for 500g of flour and 350g of water, and now I hit it perfectly every single batch. The consistency is unreal, and I'm not wasting ingredients anymore. Has anyone else found one tool that finally made your recipes click?

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holly_brown3mo ago

Tell me about it, my scale was the best kitchen buy ever. Did you find it hard to switch from cups to grams at first? I remember feeling slow, weighing each thing separately, but now I can't imagine going back. It makes you realize how off "a cup of flour" can be depending on how you scoop it.

the_hannah3mo ago

Actually, I never used cups at all! I'm from the UK, so grams were always the standard.

lily_gibson131mo ago

I actually read somewhere that King Arthur Flour did a whole test on this and found that "1 cup of flour" can vary by like 30 grams depending on if you scoop or spoon it. That blew my mind because I used to just dip my measuring cup right into the bag and call it a day. Once I got my scale I started using it for everything, even just making pancakes on a Saturday morning. My chocolate chip cookies come out exactly the same every time now no more flat discs or weird puffy blobs. It's wild how much consistency a cheap little scale can bring to your kitchen.