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Overheard a neighbor say they never weigh ingredients for bread because 'it's all about feel'.
My sourdough starter died after I tried that 'feel' method for a week, so I'm sticking with my $20 kitchen scale from now on, anyone else think eyeballing it is a recipe for disaster?
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ellis.riley5d ago
Oh man, that's rough. The 'feel' method only works after you've made the same recipe perfectly like a hundred times. My 'feel' just tells me to add more chocolate chips. Kitchen scale for life, it's not worth the wasted flour.
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joel5365d ago
My wife tried to make bread by feel last month and we ended up with a weird salty brick. It was so dense I could have used it to patch a sidewalk. I mean, I get the idea of getting a feel for it, but my feel is always off by like half a cup of flour. Now we just keep a cheap scale in the drawer. No more guessing games.
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