Baking game-changers - Page 3

Still Raining · ‎03-30-2014

He he Grand dog gets 1 cup + 1/4 cup twice a day (except when grandma is in charge 🤭)

She is all over this news.

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

@AuntMame The brand of scale I have is Taylor. I have this one except mine is black.

Moonlady · ‎03-10-2010

I've heard that before, but never checked it out. Other than weighing ingredients, I'd have no way of knowing unless I went out and purchased supposedly reliable brands. But since my baking has always turned out perfect, the haphazard collection of cheap measuring cups and spoons I've amassed throughout my life were obviously adequate.

The pain they have cost us, the evils that never happened.

Moonlady · ‎03-10-2010

@jlkz wrote:
@Sooner @Carmie

One of the biggest arguments with DH occurred when we were using the pasta making machine. He wanted to make regular thickness spaghetti. My "job" was to cut the pasta as it came out of the extruder. I kept having problems which annoyed him. So I asked how much water did you use. His answer: what the recipe called for. That was the problem as it was heavily raining !

He's not Italian; I am an grew up making pasta and gnocchi from scratch. I know the weather / humidity can definitely mess with the outcome.

After that wonderful day ( sarcastically said ), the pasta maker was washed and put back in its original box, never to see the light of day if I had my way. And, I have, lol !

@jlkz LOL!

The pain they have cost us, the evils that never happened.

Enufstuff · ‎03-12-2010

@Sooner That is too funny! Kitty just wanted to help.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@Enufstuff Kitty thought it was great fun. He has been gone a long time and we still miss him and talk about him! The vet said he had the longest teeth and claws he'd seen on a cat then said we were lucky he didn't have a mean bone in his body.

AuntMame · ‎10-16-2010

@Sakuya wrote:
@AuntMame- what recipe do you use for bread machine? I was gifted a machine several years ago but when I finally went to buy a bread machine mix at store realized they don't make them anymore.

I tried a few bread machine recipes I found on the web. They generally say to tweak the recipe slightly depending upon how the bread comes out.

Since I was having trouble getting good-looking loaves--loaves that didn't look collapsed like a bad cake--I found on ebay a copy of Betty Crocker's bread-machine cook book. My bread machine is one of Betty Crocker's original models from the early 1990s. Got it for $5 at a garage sale. The Betty Crocker recipes worked much better with my bread machine than anything I found on the web. But still I needed to tweak the recipes to use less fat and sugar.

Seems like my loaves with the new measuring cups are turning out much better than any of the past loaves. I think because my old one-cup measuring cup was a few tablespoons short, resulting in the loaves having too much moisture. They say that exact measuring is really important when you're using a bread machine.

AuntMame · ‎10-16-2010

@gardenman wrote:
@AuntMame wrote:
@Carmie wrote:
I use an electronic kitchen scale. It weighs in pounds, ounces, grams, fluids ounces and mils.

I bake a lot. This type of scale is perfection. I have had it for years and have never changed the battery. It gets used almost every day.

Sometimes I use a liquid measure or dry measurement cups with the scale to see how accurate they are....they are always off, by a lot.

What is the brand of electronic scale that you use? I've been wanting to buy one but have been overwhelmed by all the reviews.
I don't think you can too far wrong with any that gets good reviews. Mine is a Kuluner that measures to a tenth of a gram. It's astonishingly reliable and was cheap when I bought it. (Like $12?) Most TV cooks like the Oxo digital scale (around $35-$55) with the extendable display. They can use wider bowls/dishes and still read the display that way. And Oxo stuff is almost always very good.

Thank you for the recommendation @gardenman . It looks like Kuluner doesn't make the digital scales any longer. I've always liked Oxo products so I'll give those a look. Thank you!