Cooking And Baking By Weight Versus Volume
- At July 26, 2021
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, New Video
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American home cooks measure recipe ingredients by volume (cups, spoons) versus weight (ounces, pounds). This is partly due to the U.S. being the only country using imperial units of measure instead of metric. American restaurants and bakers use weight.
Some old home cooked recipes used weight like the pound cake. The recipe called for one pound each of eggs, flour and sugar. Of course, to cook using weights instead of cups requires owning an accurate kitchen scale. Most kitchen scales are now digital instead of analog and can display units in ounces or grams.
For many recipes measuring using cups works fine. But, in some cases, using weights is more accurate and contestant. Measuring a cup of chopped broccoli is not as accurate as weighing 160 grams (5.6 oz) of broccoli. The same with measuring pasta using cups.
This video shares some advantages of measuring ingredients by weight instead of volume (cups) for more consistent results especially making cakes, muffins, pancakes, and biscuits.
Wax Paper vs. Parchment Paper
- At May 24, 2021
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips
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Many many decades wax paper was used for home cooking and baking. Higher cost parchment paper was primarily used by professional chefs and balers.
Today, rolls and sheets of parchment paper are available in most stores or can be ordered online.
Both have advantages and disadvantages. One disadvantage is the higher cost of parchment paper. But unlike wax paper, parchment paper can be reused for some applications like baking cookies.
In fact, many brands of wax paper now come with a warning to not use for high heat applications like baking cookies and cakes.
This video shares:
• What is wax paper? 00:34
• What is parchment paper? 1:07
• Wax and parchment paper differences. 1:55
• Wax paper advantages and disadvantages. 5:34
• Parchment advantages and disadvantages. 6:19
