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Wondering How to Make Biscuits

by katherine
(lepanto,ar. usa)

I am wondering how to make biscuits still. In your video series "Cooking Coarse", episode #37, you said the way to make good biscuits is to weigh not measure. So how can you weigh 1/2 oz or 1/4 oz? Can you explain please?

PS: Thank you I have really enjoy watching your videos.


Chef Todd Says:
Katherine:
Great question and one I get a lot! When you make biscuits, as in all baking, it is much more accurate to measure your ingredients by weight vs volume. Get yourself a digital scale. 1/4 oz is .25 on and 1/2 oz is .5

When converting cups to oz, there are 16 oz in a cup so a 1/4 cup is 4 oz and 1/2 cup is 8 oz.

Please click on the Weight and Measure tab on the Navigation bar to the left for more information on this.

CTM

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Aug 27, 2009
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by: Marion in Wa

The conversion from volume to weight depends on what you are measuring. A pint of water weighs one pound, but the conversion for flour, sugar or salt is different. I have a metal cup that has different scales for all sorts of dry ingredients, and 250 grams of sugar takes up about the same volume as 150 grams of flour. You can probably find the conversions somewhere on the internet. I don't do much baking, so the only thng I weigh is brown sugar, because I got tired of packing it. 1 cup is 8 ounces.
Jul 18, 2009
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starstarstarstarstar 		still the same
by: Liberty

You are right that pound makes more sense than ounce but the fundamental problem of converting volume (cups) to mass (ounces or pounds) is unchanged.
Jul 16, 2009
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starstarstarstarstar 		16 ounces in a cup?
by: Rob

I believe Chef Todd ment to say pound not cup... There are 16 ounces in a pound... If you go back to his comment and replace cup with pound it will make more sense.
May 20, 2009
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by: Liberty

There are ounces which measure weight and fluid ounces which measure volume. Cups measure volume so there is no direct conversion from ounces to cups; only fluid ounces to cups.

To convert ounces to cups you would need to know the density of the material being converted.

I'm confused when you say there are 16 oz in a cup. There are 8 fl oz in a cup. There are ~8.3 oz in a cup of water and you would need something quite dense to get 16 ounces/cup.

I like the idea of working by weight but the conversion is not so obvious.

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