It’s as easy as dusting off your most valuable kitchen tool and no, it's not your fancy stand mixer. Your most valuable kitchen accessory when baking is... the kitchen scale! Place a bowl on it and weigh your ingredients and you're on your way.
I've had a lot of people come up to me, exclaiming that they simply cannot bake!
From these conversations, I've realized that it's not that they can't bake, it's that they don't really like sticking to the recipes they're baking from, let alone measure out their ingredients! (does this sound like it could be you?)
They fall into the bad habits of guesstimating amounts and eyeballing. Eyeballing may work when you're making soup, but if you're making a batch of cookies, precision really is the key to success and a consistent result, from one batch to another. And that's where your kitchen scale pays a very important role!
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SO YOU WANT TO BE A BAKER...
It’s as easy as dusting off your most valuable kitchen tool and no, it's not your fancy stand mixer. Your most valuable kitchen accessory when baking is... the kitchen scale! Place a bowl on it and weigh your ingredients and you're on your way.
I've had a lot of people come up to me, exclaiming that they simply cannot bake!
From these conversations, I've realized that it's not that they can't bake, it's that they don't really like sticking to the recipes they're baking from, let alone measure out their ingredients! (does this sound like it could be you?)
They fall into the bad habits of guesstimating amounts and eyeballing. Eyeballing may work when you're making soup, but if you're making a batch of cookies, precision really is the key to success and a consistent result, from one batch to another. And that's where your kitchen scale pays a very important role!
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