Why You Want To Weigh Your Flour (Get Yourself A Food Scale)

For the most part, you don't really need a food scale. Most of the time, you can just eyeball your measurements or use a simple cup measure. Occasionally, however, you'll find a recipe that requires a very specific amount of an ingredient and you need to get it just right.

This is most often the case when measuring flour as it's powdery nature leads to frequently inconsistent scoops. no matter what, the standard method of scooping it out of the bag with a cup measure usually gives you far more flour than you need, potentially throwing off your whole dish.

When we made scones, we needed exactly 240 grams (2 cups) of flour. We went ahead and scooped up two cups the normal way and started pouring it in our bowl. We made sure to watch the scale as we went to ensure the proper amount. With plenty of flour still left over, we were already at our 240 grams. If we'd added all of the flour without weighing first, the scones would come out dry and unappetizing; it would've ruined everything!

Luckily, a quality scale isn't terribly expensive and can give such great utility without taking up a whole bunch of space and of course, we use ours for far more than just weighing flour as well.

Portioning out mix, weighing dough or just getting perfectly sized burger patties, there's pretty much always a reason to use a food scale.