Why is it important to measure baking ingredients?

Answer 1

If you don't properly measure you're ingredients it could alter the way the recipe is suppose to turn out. I know it sounds kind of silly but for example if a cookie recipe called for 2 cups of flour and you used 1 3/4 cups instead it would make you're cookies spread out more during baking and it would make them more likely to burn. I've definitely had many experiences myself with not measuring accurately :/

Answer 2

The answer to the question is surprising: extremely important. If you cannot measure, expect your results to turn out average to terrible. Cooking is science. From mixing batter to stir-frying vegetables, you are creating delicious chemical reactions. An accurate balance of carbohydrates, fats, and liquids results in a masterpiece. Too much salt or putting in too much baking soda in cookies can destroy the flavor. Muffins will taste bland and tasteless.

Answer 3

A kitchen scale is just another tool in the kitchen, it helps you put a certain amount of an ingredient in the dish so that the ratios and final taste and texture stay true to the recipe. It's like using a measuring cup- when you're making bread, you don't just put in what looks like about 3 cups maybe of flour, you actually measure it out (unless you're super super super experienced) so that you don't end up with a brick instead of bread.

Answer 4

Ingredients need to be weighed accurately because during cooking, certain quantities are needed to create a reaction. For example, weighing baking soda for a cake it vital because too much will result in an over risen cake, whilst too little will result in a dense un-risen cake

Answer 5

Measuring ingredients is a practice that pastry chefs use because the art of Pattiserie, is an exact science, for which demands precise measurements and weights by accurate scales, pastry utensils and gadgetry that ensures such exact work.

When cooking savory food whether it's sauteed, fried, boiled, roasted, grilled, etc., there exists some hard and fast techniques like; knowing your cooking methodology, proper knowledge of what temperatures to use on all foods that can be acquired through academia or better yet, through a practical apprenticeship. Getting back to the question, it's good to understand the importance of exact weights & measurements, a good exercise to try, is to attempt making a loaf of bread following an exact, basic & accurate recipe, then make one going by your gut and what amounts of the ingredients you think should suffice. Please try this then get back to me. I'm quite curious to 'hear' from you regarding the outcome of an exact recipe and the loaf you made by what you 'felt' would work out by estimations you made yourself. Best of luck, enjoy the rest of today : )

Craig

Answer 6

So that your product will not become failure

Answer 7

So that you get the ratios right.