View Single Post
  #39 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
TammyM[_1_] TammyM[_1_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,303
Default Do you like your bread machine?

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:24:55 GMT, Matt >
wrote:

>TammyM wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:20:04 GMT, Matt >
>> wrote:


>> It measures to the quarter of an ounce (it also has a metric
>> function). I suspect that more expensive scales measure even more
>> accurately.


Matt responded:
>A quarter ounce (by weight) of flour is going to take up about a half
>ounce by volume. If you weigh four cups of flour at once, that's a 1/64
>error. If you use two kinds of flour measured separately, that's a 1/32
>error. I think you can do better measuring by volume.


<snip>

Okey dokey, you do it your way, I'll do it mine :-) I've used both
methods and found the one I prefer which is measuring by weight.

TammyM