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How can you measure basil leaves in cups? Is that “put the leaves in the cup” or “put the leaves in the cup and press them down” or “roughly chop the basil lea
by saaaaaam 9mo ago
How can you measure basil leaves in cups?
Is that “put the leaves in the cup” or “put the leaves in the cup and press them down” or “roughly chop the basil leaves and put them into the cup” or “finely chop the basil leaves and put them into a cup”?
Using a slide rule is all very well, but you only really need it if you’re using daft measurements like cups and spoons. If you just use grams and millilitres you don’t need one.
- randerson 9mo agoEven 1 teaspoon of salt can be twice as salty as the recipe's writer intended. e.g. Morton's has denser flakes which are 1.8x as salty by volume compared to Diamond Crystal. For baking where its almost an exact science, it baffles me why recipes still use cups and spoons. I specifically search for recipes where the measurements are in grams. SeriousEats is often where I end up.
- D-Machine 9mo agoSeriousEats is great most of the time, and if you can "acquire" copies of any of the Modernist series (Modernist Cuisine, Modernist Cuisine at Home, Modernist Bread, Modernist Pizza), those are all done by mass with baker's percentages.
- rekabis 9mo agoAnd then there is flour, which when measured by volume can exhibit massive differences in actual amounts depending on how packed said flour is. Which is why you can easily tell the difference between an expert baker and an idiot by whether they - respectively - measure flour by weight or by volume.
- saaaaaam 9mo ago“expert baker and an idiot” Not pulling your punches there! :)