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Thanks for the weight chart!

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A slight, but critical, error: the scale pictured is accurate to .1g (not 1g).

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Shawn, no, that's not quite correct. It _resolves_ to 0.1g, but it isn't really accurate at sub 1g measurements. But that's never an issue with bread recipes, none of the amounts I ever call for are less than 1g.

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Ok, thanks. I was going by the Amazon listing which says to 10th of a gram, so I assumed it was a typo.

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Yeah, it "measures" to one decimal place, but it doesn't do so accurately. It doesn't even register until you put at least 0.3g on it. It seems pretty accurate once it hits 1g though!

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Great chart, thank-you!

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So glad to have you back! Is there a particular reason you omitted the amounts for starter in your chart? Possibly because it's too variable? Or maybe because any serious recipe using starter doesn't use volume measurements :-P I typically rely on about 248 g to be a cup of starter.

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Hallie - thank you, it's good to be back! The reason I don't have starter on there is exactly that: Is it doubled in volume? Tripled? Collapsed? All of those would have different volumes. Even sourdough discard varies in volume depending upon how old it is.

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Fantastic! Weighing ingredients is so much easier, in most cases!

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Lack of weights in recipes does my head in. I usually convert all the recipes I keep to weight over volume. Great stuff!

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Thank you so much! I get so cross with recipes that call for 1 stick of butter - what the hell is a stick of butter??? Not every country sells butter in sticks. Now I have the metric equivalent which makes me so happy as I have always baked/cooked using metric weights. Having to do the conversion before using a recipe is tedious. My copy of Rose Levy Birnbaum's Bread Bible has been used more for the extensive appendix of metric equivalents than for the recipes. And I especially appreciate you including smaller measurements, such as 1 tbsp of flour etc.

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This is great - thanks so much for this handy chart, I’m bookmarking it! I think there’s a typo in the the first section “Volume conversions” though - you state that 2 Tablespoons = 1 fluid ounce = 10 ml. I think that should be 30 ml?

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thanks for the heads up, Ruth!

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If the bag of AP flour I am using says 1c is 135g do I use that amount or the 140g as listed on your chart?

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use my numbers. I am smarter and more accurate than your bag of flour

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And definitely funnier! Thanks for the quick response.

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Thanks for that chart info!! I have a few recipes I have wanted to try but not wanting to have to explain to hubby why I need more kitchen tools I’ve put it off since the one I tried to do didn’t turn out as good as it did at class.

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