Did you use food scale in cooking?

[procizion12]

Hi everyone! I just want to ask if you love to use food scale whenever you bake or cook some recipes and dishes?

[blueeyetea]

It depends. If I'm using a recipe from a Canadian source, like Canadian Living, I don't use a scale. If I'm using a recipe from a US source or the UK, I will use a scale. This is for flour mainly. There are differences in volume: one cup of US flour weights less than one cup of Canadian flour. You'll get better and consistent results if you weight it.

[Mia001]

same as Bleueyetea, it's all about the recipe, i.e. French cuisine request to weight the dry ingredients , they don't have a clue about ''cups, half cup, teaspoon....etc. ''

they also have ''glass'' as mesure....it comes from an old french tradition ''the mustard glass'' ....
i was said that in the old time every french family hold an empty glass of mustard they used to mesure ingredients in recipe...but ...the question is , were all the mustard glasses hold the same quantity ?

I guess if the same glass is used in a recipe, that is fine


otherwise, diets request to use scale to mesure meats

[Zonny]

In my experience, Canadian and American flours are different things, they're made with different kinds of wheat. When I lived in the US, you had to use more for the same result and it didn't always work. Never tried weighing it though, maybe that would have worked better.

I do use a food scale if I'm doing a specific recipe, especially for measuring hard things like cold butter. For flour, I just use my measuring cup. If I'm cooking a main course using the cooking method of 'just toss stuff in until it tastes good,' I weigh some of the ingredients (like the chicken for example) because I'm trying to lose weight. I log everything in My Fitness Pal, and this gives me a much better indication of how many calories are in my meal.

I wish more recipes had weights rather than measuring cups. Flour can be a lot different in volume if you sift it first.

[Mithimithi]

I've always wanted to buy one of those digital scales just for fun - but I don't want to spend a lot and don't want to look like a drug dealer

[PurpleBunny89]

I've always wanted to buy one of those digital scales just for fun - but I don't want to spend a lot and don't want to look like a drug dealer

Lol, I completely understand where you're coming from. I bit the bullet and bought mine from amazon for $20 mainly for how much trading I do. This way I don't have to take every envelope to the post office to be weighed. It sure comes in handy.

I've never really thought about using my scale for weighing ingredients for a recipe, maybe things would turn out better for me! I have used it however when I buy a club pack of ground beef so I can seperate into 1 pound portions for easy cooking/use later.

[Crochetlady]

The only time I use a scale is when I bake fruit cake. Most of the fruits need to be weighed.

[SnowFlakey]

ive never used a food scale for baking. 99% of my recipes are baking recipes are from my mother and they are over 50 years old. She converted all of them about 25 years ago. Tried and true.

[Darth Penguin]

Cups, spoons and far more importantly taste...

weighing only if I can't find an internet conversion table..

[monicawarren]

ive never used a food scale...

[amelietremblay6]

Not on daily basis... but yeah when I have to cook for many peoples like when I invite friends for dinner/lunch I make a habit to use food scale to make food proportionately.