Showerthought: A baker in Boise taught me to weigh my water

I was at a small bakery there last year and the owner saw me eyeballing water for a dough. She said, 'If you weigh your flour, you should weigh your water too, it changes the whole game.' I started doing it and my sourdough crust got way better. Anyone else weigh their liquids now?

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skyler_jackson275h ago

That line about it changing the whole game is so true. I see this everywhere now. People measure coffee beans by weight, not scoops. They weigh laundry detergent instead of using the cup. It feels like we are all slowly learning that our eyes and cups LIE. The real recipe is in the grams, not the guess.

matthewdixon36m ago

Seriously though, is this just about being more accurate, or is there something deeper? Like, are we all just craving more control in a chaotic world by weighing our coffee? Feels like a quiet rebellion against guesswork in everything.