I was totally against using a kitchen scale for baking until I tried my great aunt's pound cake recipe that listed everything in grams

After my third failed attempt in a row, I finally caved on a $15 scale from the grocery store and the cake came out perfect, so has anyone else been converted by a stubborn family recipe that forced you to change your ways?

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logan_dixon181d ago

You're describing it like you found religion or something. It's a scale. It weighs flour. I've been baking for years with measuring cups and things turn out fine. Maybe your great aunt's recipe was just written in grams because she had a cheap scale from the 70s and never bothered converting it. A pound cake is pretty forgiving anyway, lots of butter and sugar holds it together. I get that some people like the precision but acting like your measuring cups are "neglected exes" is a bit much. If the cake came out good then cool, but this whole conversion story feels like overkill for something that costs fifteen bucks at the grocery store.

stella_foster3d ago

I was that stubborn person too, swearing off scales like they were a personal insult to my measuring cups. "A cup is a cup," I'd tell myself after every flat, dense loaf of banana bread. Then my cousin sent me her grandmother's sugar cookie recipe, and every ingredient was in grams and ounces. First batch turned into hockey pucks. Second batch was a floury mess. Third batch I finally broke down and ordered a cheap digital scale, and the cookies came out the exact texture she promised. Now I weigh everything for baking, and my measuring cups just sit in the drawer collecting dust like neglected exes.