measuring
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Why Your Kitchen Needs A Digital Scale
If there is one kitchen tool that can improve the quality and consistency of your cooking, it’s the digital scale. Unlike measuring things by volume, weighing out your ingredients eliminates any doubt you may have about whether you’re “doing it right.”
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Don’t Use A Liquid Measuring Cup To Measure Dry Ingredients
In terms of precision, cooking is a spectrum. There are instances where eyeballing is sufficient — such as deglazing a pan with roughly half a cup of wine — and there are instances where accurate measurements are vital — such as in baking finicky pastry or most recipes from Serious Eats.
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This Ingredient Weight Chart Will Make Your Baking Even Better
Weighing ingredients gives you the most accurate, reproducible (and tasty) results (especially in baking), but not all recipes list their measurements by mass. Luckily, King Arthur Flour has put together a handy weight chart for a wide variety of ingredients.