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c/chefsaverym82averym8214d ago

Hot take: I thought precision scales were overkill for pastry...

After 3 tries of my macarons coming out lopsided, I finally weighed my almond flour to the gram instead of eyeballing it. Anyone else have a tool they ignored that turned their baking around?
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mary_schmidt
Grab a kitchen scale for everything now. Same pattern with salt. Started measuring instead of pinching and suddenly my bread tasted like actual bread instead of cardboard. Little tools fix big problems more often than people want to admit.
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theathomas
theathomas13d ago
Three times with lopsided macarons? That's rough. I had the same problem until I realised my oven thermometer was off by 25 degrees. Have you checked your oven temp recently or was it just the scale that fixed it? Because inconsistent heat will mess up macarons way worse than a few extra grams of almond flour. A buddy of mine baked for years without one and thought her oven was fine, turned out it ran cold the whole time. Her stuff improved instantly after she got one.
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