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Recipes are a pain in general, even without google, doubly so for baking. Baking is a science, not art... so recipes calling for a cup of flour and two teaspoo
by ajsnigrutin 4y ago
Recipes are a pain in general, even without google, doubly so for baking.
Baking is a science, not art... so recipes calling for a cup of flour and two teaspoons of butter are useless to me, while recipes with ingredients in grams are useless to many american grandmas.
On the other hand, a pinterest page with a photo and a large overlay asking me to register is useless to both of us.
- treeman79 4y agoI have given up on web pages for recipes. Videos are still mostly fine. Often a nice condensed version of the recipe will be in the comment section.
- marcosdumay 4y agoNowadays a cup and a tablespoon are standard unities of volume. They are not any worse than milliliters. There are a few people that insist on ignoring the standards, but those also tend to not publish their recipes.
- JohnFen 4y agoThe issue is that for a lot of ingredients -- flour notably among them -- you can't measure accurately by volume. If you're looking for reproducibility, you have to measure by weight. And once you start measuring some things by weight, you quickly realize that most things are easier to measure out by weight than volume (particularly sticky ingredients like honey), so you start wanting to measure everything that isn't a tiny amount by weight. I convert all of the recipes I collect to gram measurements for this reason.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoYou cannot measure flour, sugar, salt, etc by volume. Cups of flour and *spoins of sugar/salt/cinnamon and even butter are used in (too) many recipes.