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Appreciation post: the baker at my local shop in Tulsa told me to weigh my flour, and my cookies finally stopped turning into flat discs
I always scooped flour straight from the bag with a measuring cup, and my cookies spread out like pancakes every single time. She said one cup can swing between 4 and 6 ounces depending on how packed it is, so I grabbed a $12 kitchen scale and started weighing 120 grams per cup. Three batches later, they actually hold their shape. Who else switched to a scale and never looked back?
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lewis.brian2h ago
The part nobody talks about is how much this changes your shopping. Once you start weighing, you notice the same brand of flour can be packed tighter or looser from bag to bag, so even the recipe you've made a hundred times can drift on you. I started writing the gram weights right on the recipe card, and now a batch tastes the same whether it's a dry winter or a muggy July. Humidity alone can add a few grams of water weight to your flour, which is why summer cookies used to betray me. Weighing takes the guesswork out of the one thing you can actually control.
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