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They're also fantastic for small measures for baking and cooking when it matters.
by ebiester 19d ago
They're also fantastic for small measures for baking and cooking when it matters.
- gwbas1c 19d agoCurious: What do you make where you need such accurate measurements? I just eyeball everything when I cook. (For other things that I'm passionate about I'm much more careful.)
- roryirvine 19d agoBaking often rewards precision. I'm also an eyeballer. I'm a decent cook but a truly lousy baker.
- morsch 18d agoI sometimes wish my scale was precise to below 1g when measuring yeast for long-rising (bread) dough. A recipe may ask for 1g, and adding 2g will make a huge difference.
- kevinmchugh 18d agoThere's a few modernist cooking tricks that require small amounts - tenths of a gram - for big impacts. Sodium citrate can make any cheese melt beautifully into a smooth sauce, using something like 1% of the weight of the cheese. Any juice can take the roll of lime or lemon (in cocktails or baking) by adding a bit of citric or malic acid. Orange juice is 1% citric acid, so add 3g citric and 2g malic per 100g juice and now you can make an orange daiquiri or "key" orange pie. Emulsifiers get goopy if you use a lot, but can make a smooth syrup in small amounts. You can make a nice syrup from any nut milk with a small amount of xanthan and gum arabic. There's a wide array of ingredients including xanthan and gum arabic used in tiny amounts in gluten free baking
- amluto 19d agoSomewhere there’s probably a coffee nerd who wants to measure small fractions of a bean.