Today's Kitchen Tip: Weigh dry ingredients for baking to get consistency

 

OXO Food Scale

We often think of food scales as being used by people weighing the food they eat.  While that's a very common use, another use is for measuring ingredients for baking and cooking.

Also, sometimes amounts are shown in recipes using weight rather than cups.  A food scale becomes the perfect tool to use.  When baking, using ingredient weight gives you a more exact measurement. 

For example, depending upon how you measure your flour, you can get a big difference in the amount of flour you use.  Proper measurements can make or break a recipe.   Using a food scale will assure you get the proper amount of flour in your recipe every time.  A cup of all purpose flour should weigh about 4 ½ ounces. 

You may want to test the weight of flour you get when measuring 'your way'.  You will be surprised how much your cup of flour measurements will be off.

Usually professional bakers weigh their ingredients, rather than measure, so they can assure a consistent product time after time.