Is weighing flour really that big of a deal?

I've always used cups, but everyone online swears by scales. I tried it once and my cookies came out totally different, not sure if it's worth the hassle.

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dianamiller4d ago

Honestly, the game changer for me was trying to cut a recipe in half. Doing that with cups is a total messy guess, but with a scale you just divide the grams. It saved a huge batch of waffle batter for me last week when I realized I only had half the buttermilk.

jessica_dixon4d ago

Totally get why it feels like extra work, but that cookie experiment proves the point. Scooping flour packs it down differently every time, so your cups are never actually equal. A scale cuts out all the guessing, it's just a direct number. Once you do it a few times, it's faster than washing all those measuring cups. Your cookies turned out different because you finally used the amount the recipe meant. How much did your batch change, were they better or worse?