My $40 kitchen scale turned out to be the best thing I ever got for baking

I used to just scoop and level my flour for years, thinking it was close enough. Then I tried a recipe for macarons that totally failed, and a friend asked if I weighed my ingredients. I hadn't. So I grabbed a basic digital scale for about forty bucks. The next batch was perfect. Now I weigh everything, even for simple cookies. It's crazy how much a 'cup' of flour can change depending on how you scoop it. My stuff comes out the same every single time now. Has anyone else found that one cheap tool made a huge difference for them?

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andrew_walker3915d ago

Forty bucks for a scale is a lot, mine was like ten.

derek86815d agoTop Commenter

Does your ten dollar scale actually work well or does it give you a different weight every time you step on it? Mine was cheap too and it was all over the place, which is why I finally spent more. You get what you pay for sometimes.