• mondoman712@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      And everything is measured by volume. Just tell me the amount of salt I need in grams and I don’t have to worry about if it’s kosher or not.

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        inconsistent flour hydration and packing density has entered the chat

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      Sure it is

      You can teaspoon the shit out of everything. 3tsp to a table. 5ml to 15ml. Cut recipes by turning everything into a tablespoon. Need to make 1/2 of something that is already 1/4 cup? That’s 16 tbsp to a cup, so you were at 4, now half a 1/4 cup is simply 2 tbsp

      For dry shit, get a gram scale and welcome to consistency city

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          Google assistant has gotten worse and worse but “Hey Google, how many tablespoons are in x” is pretty helpful

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              Does that plug into assistant speakers?

              I’m not a massive fan of it but hands free cooking questions are nice. I use DDG for my browser search

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                I’m sure some open hardware hacker could get DuckDuckGo or qalc to work through their home-soldered voice-controlled assistant.

                But other than that, no. For what it’s worth, I spend 2 to 3 seconds for each conversion through the terminal when preparing a recipe, or about 15 seconds unlocking my phone and looking it up in DDG on the spot

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      Right? Cooking is the single area where the American system makes sense. Much more intuitive and you don’t need a kitchen scale.

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        Using volume is imprecise no matter what units you’re using. Not a big deal for cooking, but for baking, you definitely should use a scale.

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          Cooking is an art. Baking is a science

          I was with someone who eyeballed it. Worked out for a skillet. Then she tried to make bread one night. I warned her but it did not go well