chef kitchen

Question

As the chef and a kitchen you observe your employee trying to measure 8 ounces of flour using a 1 cup measure.  if you were the chef what would you say to the employee?

Answer 1

Id tell him to put it on the scale!!!(with the it zeroed to te cup ofc)

 

one cup is 8fl oz and we are looking for 8oz of weight. For flour they wont be the same. 

 

8oz cup measures volume(volume-space)

 

scale measures 8oz mass(mass-weight) 

 

 

fluids are mostly measured in fluid ounces 

 

dry stuff spices meats etc measured in weight

 

For flour weight is much more important than space as that may change anyway once you get it wet with other ingredients, but how much of it that is really going into the baked good is only constant by measuring weight