Joshatdot
Senior Cook
Not many of the cook books I have the baking measurements by weight. What do you know of/recommend?
Baking book w/measurements by weight?
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justplainbill
Executive Chef
Weight is supposed to be more accurate particularly for measuring flour.
Andy M.
Certified Pretend Chef
If you have cookbooks you really like for the recipes, just make notes in the cookbook for the conversions.
It will tell you on the nutrition panel of a bag of flour, for example, how many grams in a 1/4 cup (or some similar conversion). Use that as a basis for doing the math. Once it's done, it's done forever.
Typically, in a cake or bread recipe, some of the smaller measures of ingredients are still by volume, such as teaspoons and fractions thereof.
It will tell you on the nutrition panel of a bag of flour, for example, how many grams in a 1/4 cup (or some similar conversion). Use that as a basis for doing the math. Once it's done, it's done forever.
Typically, in a cake or bread recipe, some of the smaller measures of ingredients are still by volume, such as teaspoons and fractions thereof.
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Joshatdot
Senior Cook
I know .. I have got a scale .. I am looking for recipe baking books that is all in weight.
Andy M.
Certified Pretend Chef
I offered my suggestion so you wouldn't have to buy all new books, especially if you really liked the recipes in the ones you have.
If you just want new cookbooks, that's another story and I have no recommendations.
Do you read any other languages? Most European cookbooks use weight for measuring.
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Joshatdot
Senior Cook
I haven't baked much from the books I have .. I've really only done some cookies, tweaked the recipe here and there, and converted that to weight.
I'd just be nice to not have to convert/note in my current books to weight.
I can read English fairly well
. Good point bout European cookbooks.
Andy M.
Certified Pretend Chef
I haven't baked much from the books I have .. I've really only done some cookies, tweaked the recipe here and there, and converted that to weight.
I'd just be nice to not have to convert/note in my current books to weight.
I can read English fairly well
I wish you luck finding what you want. I'd focus on finding cookbooks with great recipes rather than certain units of measure.
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Joshatdot
Senior Cook
.. I've Googled conversion charts .. but they all seem to have different weights for stuff 
oh yeah. if you want to start a war, just proffer an opinion on how much a cup of flour weighs.
lard, sugar, salt, water, whatever is reasonably consistent - but not flour. different mills do it different, different 'types' weigh in different (AP, bread, cake, etc) and then there's sifted / non-sifted / packed / scooped / fluffed....
I always buy the same brand of flour - KA Bread flour, Ceresota unbleached AP, Pillsbury cake. from experience I know how it reacts and how much "a cup" weighs. never buy the "store brand" - they get it from the lowest bidder per batch - changes constantly.
also to note, some experimentation and experience required. it is not a reasonable expectation to simply and blindly follow the numbers, temps and times in a baking recipe - especially breads - and think it's gonna work right out of the box.
natt12321
Assistant Cook
Buy British!! We don't really 'do' cups over here. Infact when I come across American recipes with cups it's quite an inconvenience because it means I have to dig my cups out of the back of a draw.
Pretty much every baking book I have is in weights rather than cups (with the exception of two which I bought in America.)
Pretty much every baking book I have is in weights rather than cups (with the exception of two which I bought in America.)
Silversage
Head Chef
The Cake Bible, or just about anything by Rose Levy Beranbaum lists all recipes by both weight and volume.
And she's a very highly respected baker & author. You can't go too far wrong with her books.
And she's a very highly respected baker & author. You can't go too far wrong with her books.
Sir_Loin_of_Beef
Chef Extraordinaire
I can read English fairly well
Do they still speak English in England? Isn't England in Europe? I haven't checked since the Japanese earthquake, but I don't think it moved. At least not very far.
Yup, that's what I found too.
I have started doing my own conversions. I follow a recipe that uses cups and measure it out in cups and then weigh it. If it worked fine, I now have the measurements in grams. Liquids aren't realy a problem, my liquid cup measures all have US cups on one side and ml/litres on the other side.
