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Well I too was hoping for cookie iteration, mostly because that's been one of my side hobbies for a while. I don't have Food Lab style process shots posted any

• burfog 7y ago
  It starts off with "The egg sets the baseline unit for all other ingredients; 1 egg mass = 1 unit." and 1 egg 2 white sugar 3 brown sugar 4 AP flour e unsalted butter [2.72] π chocolate chips [3.14] but then it continues on with this usage of absolute volume measurements: 1/2 tsp baking soda 3/4 tsp kosher salt 1 tsp vanilla extract* Is it really true that cookies made with hummingbird eggs need a much larger portion of those ingredients than cookies make with ostrich eggs?
  • davee5 7y ago
    I'll concede the point on relative vs absolute units (poor geek form) with practical caveats: - the preamble clearly calls out the FDA std ~50g large chicken egg as the nominal egg unit. - the recipe targets home bakers with basic equipment and small batches. I've converted the small volume measures into mass & egg-ratios in the past, but the numbers butt up against the tolerances of most home kitchen scales and results get dicey. I've also discovered that OXO scales use some some of smoothing function that allows you to load 20 grams of slowly ground salt at "0" grams if you do it slowly enough. That was a bad batch...