How to Measure Flour the Right Way
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- Knowing how to measure flour the right way is the key to baking all sorts of delicious things! So often when I get questions about things that went wrong with recipes it's the flour was not measured properly. Packing too much in can lead to bready, dense, crumbly baked goods. Not to mention lots of frustration and wasted ingredients! Let me know if you'd like to see more of these baking 101 videos!
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Why has NO ONE EVER told us about this ????
Seriously your channel is sooo great !!!
right ! Omgg
seriously why!!
Lashlove16 Rose Levy Beranbaum and Alice Medrich have been recommending scales for years now, but few people listen. However, if you don’t want to buy kitchen scales, you could also sift your flour directly into the cup without tamping it down (just scrape the excess off).
Americans use cups. The rest of the world doesn't really...
@@craz4jaymz Don't forget Liberia and Myanmar use imperial measurements as well. There are only 3 countries that still use it. It is starting to be used less in the U.S. in recent years. Mostly due to internet forcing conformity.
You may have already thought of this but you could create a master class type of series with the basics of baking, etc. Your method of explanation and demonstration is simply the best. You are a wonderful teacher and have all the qualities of instruction that make the subject enjoyable - experience, creativity, humor, humility and kindness. The way you explain everything really helps the viewer understand. I just love your videos. 😊💜
Melissa Leistra Bittner and his PASSION!!!
@@Lashlove16 Oh yes, so true! Thank you!
You said everything that I was thinking. Excellent post. Thank you.
Totally agree!!
That would be great..... Foil cake strips have really saved the edges of my cakes.....
You have saved my future meals and desserts. Seriously. Thank you!
As a 9 year old in 4-H and then again in middle school home-ec this is something that was engrained in my head! Thanks for passing it along to new bakers.
The 30 people who dislike this are the ones that pack their flour 😂😂😂
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I overpack but I like this video so...
Best practice, always sift first! Then again, I cannot even imagine a world without my kitchen scales! Yup, I'm the proud owner of several ones, including one that measures by % for when I'm baking with bread formulas :)
I've learned sth from you too. Thanks
So glad you posted this because baking is a science and the only way to get the best consistency is to use a scale. And for those who don’t want to at least they know how to get close results by how you showed them to use the cup. 👍🏻
Your tip on measuring by volume after fluffing the flour is an EXCELLENT tip!
I have a culinary degree and in the Pastry class I took we were taught to measure EVERYTHING by weight. Because if you don’t your final product could be terrible. Whereas in culinary adjustments can be made.
Most recipes written in the USA use the volume method of measuring dry ingredients, you can try looking for foreign/international recipes or recipes written by a chef, I have more confidence using either one.
I started to vacuum seal most of my dry ingredients in which it preserves and prevents those little pesky moths, but it compacts the flour to a brick making it difficult to work with. And before either weight or volume measurements are taking it has to be sifted. In which it throws the volume measurements WAY off. I wish I could figure out a way to mimic your volume measurement method…
Now I finally know why my “moist” vanilla cupcakes turn out unbelievably dense. So glad you made this video. You should make more videos like this in the near future.
This is so interesting! Sometimes it's the simplest things that make all the difference! I usually use a scale, but over Christmas the battery died & my cakes were disasters (I couldn't work out where I had gone wrong!)- I was guilty of dipping in the bag! Thanks John! 👍
1:57 lmao @ the attempted smooth transition, "well, I'm glad you asked!", undercut by the measuring cup slipping out and hitting the scale with a loud BANG
THANK YOU!!! Wow, I’ve been baking for 10 yrs now and never thought I’ve been doing it wrong...😕 I AM SO GLAD I FOUND YOUR CHANEL And came across this “how to measure flour properly” Thank you so much for the very informative video!! ❤️
Thank you, thank you! While baking goodies for Easter, our son was watching me bake. I told him that to be successful in baking, remember it's just some techniques, and that it all boils down to basic chemistry [most importantly--measure]. Now, I will add in "weigh". Your demonstration proved the importance of it all! If we all take the "time" to cook and bake let's make it a success! ;o)
I’ve watched so many videos about how to measure flour. This is the one video that was very clear about fluffing the flour and sprinkling it in, not just spooning it in! 2:11 I’m so happy 😂🥳 Thank you for being such a great teacher! I would love to see you make more videos covering the basics of cooking and baking! ❤
Well holy crap! Ive been doing it all wrong my whole life. Who woulda thought there would be such a difference! Thanks!
“Scullery maid...”
You so crack me up and in a good way!
My baking friend and I love your videos and have made a few cakes following your instructions. You’re the absolute best! Our cakes turned out pretty awesome too. So thank you. 😊
Be well and stay smiling,
Ma’iingankwe
The perfect measurements of your recipes makes me turn to your videos again and again for a perfect baking. Preppy Kitchen is the only channel I trust my deserts will work out great if I don’t want to ruin them.
Great video. Learning to bake and I had no idea I was doing it wrong. I do have a scale never thought to use it. Thanks so much! Liz
Thank you very much! I just realized that I have been measuring flour wrong all my life! I am sure my baking will improve tremendously thanks to your video! Take care
I always use kitchen scales. BUT recently I went and bought cup measures because of a chocolate chip cookie recipe that uses 2 different types of flour. When I used the gram conversions, the cookie turned out too oily and flat.
So glad for this tip on how to use the cup measures. never had to use them before. I ended up using more flour for the recipe now, not a lot more, but the cookies turned out better :)
I find sifting my flour baking soda and even my different sugars also and even cocoa powder and baking powder helps it makes the recipes come out so much better .
I did that with a sugar cookie recipe and the dough came out perfect I have never had my dough come out so easy to roll out and not stick to everything hardly had to use flour to roll out dough amazing
I found this page accidently and omg the best I've ever subscribed. You explain every detail of what your doing just so we dont make the most simplistic mistakes such as measuring flour. I've never seen anyone explain something as simple as thay. Amazing and thankyou. Enjoy watching your shows
Welcome aboard!
I wish all American recipes were in grams. Such fantastic stuff coming from the USA but I nearly always opt for UK recipes for the weight measurements as they are more accurate 😃 Love your channel 💕
Yes you are right Samantha. It drives me nuts when they only give you cup measurements and not in grams. I can't be bothered with the conversion table, so like you i go for UK recipe. I really don't get cup measurements.
Who really needs a conversion table when you have google? I’m always converting UK recipes to our measuring cups, etc 😅
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I so agree. For accuracy and consistency, particularly when it comes to baking, go metric and use grams.
Try living in Canada! Recipes are in cups, speed signs are in kilometers, we weigh ourselves in pounds, but meat is sold in kilograms. Oven temp is in Fahrenheit, but weather is reported in Celcius. Length measurements - inches vs centimeters - depend on what age you are (we converted to metric in the late 70s)! 😂
I think I just unlocked my potential to turn my baking reputation around. 😅 And, you have such a pleasant personality, it was a pleasure to watch this video!
Thanks, John. So many recipes are in cups. I need to make an equivalent chart to hang on the fridge. Since learning the proper way to measure, my cakes are well received. I noticed that "Joy of Baking" gives the cup measures and then also gives just about all of the ingredients in grams, even the spoon measurements. I love that.
Thank you for this video! Showing my culinary students why its so important to measure the correct way!!! It makes a difference.
Very true. I only use my scale nowadays and what a difference in my baked goodies. Thank you. Blessings 💫
Omg, really thankful that I watched this video!! So helpful. This was one of my biggest issues with baking. I could never get my flour measurements on point, every recipe I followed either had too much or not enough.
Thanks again!!🤗
I love watching your videos. There is always that element of laughter to look forward to. Thank you for sharing with us, your faithful followers. I always fluff my flour before measuring but, I will start weighing from now knowing how very important that is. You once mentioned you were part Greek. I am Greek and was wondering on which side does your Greek come from; mom's or dad's. Please do not stop making videos as that will make us very sad. ☹️ P.S. I watched the spanakopita video that you made with your mom. I think that may be part of the reason for your excellent culinary skills.
I'm soooo glad I came across your channel. Have gotten a lot of useful tips! Thanks for sharing.
Oh my... who knew! Here I am at 50 years learning this... you are so brilliant thank you!! 🥰
Oh John thank you for these brilliant tips! This with the cake strips are lifesavers!!!
OMG! Y didn’t I know this?! This is the best video ever! I’ve been measuring flour the wrong way 😢 I’m so getting a scale. Thanks John!🙏🏻💕
I love using a scale now for my flour, it is way more efficient and easier!! Thanks!
Thanks preppy I need this I normally use measuring cups. I see you measure by grand I don’t have a scale as yet but am going to invest in one. I appreciate all the videos you send me they help so much. Also the cake belt you put around the cake pan to level out cakes. I did the foil with the damp paper towel around the cake pan and it worked perfect.🇧🇸
THANK YOU JOHN‼️. 69 year old baker just hearing this for the first time. 😍
I definitely appreciate the way you explained this. Thank you!!
Know wonder my cakes and cookies would come out dense and starchy. Thank you for this.
Where have this channel been all my life? Amazing videos, love your sparkle, and recipes are pretty easy
John, you have beautiful grammer. "scullery maid". What lovely words you find to describe simply tasks. Please, please, teach your babies that the choice of speaking to others will set them apart by their easy choice of vocabulary that is joyous, or is run-of-the mill.
Haha yes. I looked it up! He makes me google words often haha..I love learning.
Such important information! Thank you so much for the tutorial.
this was amazing! thanks a lot for always being so kind and sharing your knowledge.
We just got an oven today and planning to bake tomorrow. I'm so glad I watched this video!!!!!!!
OMG! No wonder my cakes never turn out the same!!! Thank you 😊
I’m buying a digital scale ❣️
I can't believe I never knew this! I've been baking for so long as well! Crazy, but thank you for this !!
I love that you use the metric system!! Metric makes so much more sense!! Especially in baking
I found a sifter/scale attachment today at williams sonoma that weighs,sifts and shoots ingredients into my stand mixer. Excited to use it. No more cleaning measuring cups and getting flour everywhere.
No way! This changed my life! Never again... gosh thank u so much!
Superb personality, superb recipes, superb explanations and teaching methods, with a real understanding of where your viewer baker is at. And scrumptious eats! Full marks - and thankyou. Don't change!
Great tip! Thank you so much for teaching us about this. I had no idea!
Wow! Your channel is what I need to fix my baking mistakes...thank uuu!
What good advices there! Thank you! 👍
I am SO GLAD you did this video. People get it wrong all the time. I read the Cake Bible, and it's where I learned the proper measurement (which is a lot less flour than most people realize). She recommends 116 grams, but I also use 120 as it's easier to do the math for all the measurements.
Thanks for the clarification... I enjoyed this video.
Very helpful! Thanks for sharing.
Been waiting for this video, finally I find it. You know it takes a lot of time to measure using scale and grams. Thanks a lot 👌👍
Thank you so much for this video - Now I know why my baking sucks sometimes 😂. I also wanted to say that I love watching your channel. You are very talented. Great recipes too.
Omg!!! Never knew this. I’m getting a kitchen scale ASAP. Thanks!!
At last! As a Brit I gave up on US baking recipes (which was a shame) as measuring in cups made no sense -they can be wildly inaccurate. I was SOOOO plsd when u started using scales!! My scales were so cheap, have never let me down, and they measure in ounces or grammes, so I can use them for my really old recipes before the metric system 😄😄😄
THANK YOU FOR THIS video!! 👍👍👍 you’re so funny! 🤣 I recommend you to all my friends. You are such a wonderful teacher!
Wow! How am I just now learning this?! Thanks man! Love your cake videos!
Thanks for such wonderful tip...
At first I thought "do we really need a video telling us how to measure"? Judging by the comments, apparently we do. I didn't think about how many Americans use cups as a means to measure their ingredients. Always appreciate you giving ingredients in grams as well for your recipes.
Thank you so much! I never knew the reason why my cakes sometimes come out dense is because of the way I measure my flour!
Woow...thats so nice of you to explain that...just cudnt imagine its so much of difference....thankyou so much.,,.u r the best 😍😍
This is such valuable advice !
Hi! Thanks for ur recipes and thanks for ur video on how to measure flour the right way.
holy crap!!! Never knew this... you, sir, are the man of the hour!
Thank you so much, I’ve been watching your videos to start learning how to bake so I could potentially start a baking business on Instagram!
“Have you ever followed a recipe to the T and it came out completely wrong?” YES LITERALLY YESTERDAY WITH THE VANILLA CAKE RECIPE. The timing of this video is impeccable lol
Absolutely love your videos, so informative and you explain everything so well...i tried your red velvet cupcakes and OMG it sooo delicious. also just something i notice in this video...wouldn't the measuring of the flour using the cup weigh more because of the fact that it is measuring the weight of the measuring cup and flour?
Think we have all been measuring our flour wrong!
Very informative, thanks Chef! 🤗
Yes!! Kitchen scales are the only way to bake! Also good for making sure to not over do portion sizes.
I had NO idea! How come no one ever mentioned the basics of baking until now? Thank you so much.
This is why I measure my dry ingredients on a scale. More accurate and better results. The fluffing is a great tip for new bakers . 🙂
Awesome and thank you for your wonderful tips 😃 love it 😍
Entertaining how to.Thanks for sharing.
After a long time... Love love. Preppy kitchen
I've been doing it all wrong, packing my flour but thanks to this video, my future bakes will be better ^^ that and I just got a kitchen scale too 😊
Now I’ve stopped using cups because I have realised that it’s much easier to measure using scales than using cups but when I used to measure in cups Ifollowed the exact same procedure, I fluffed up the flour and then levelled it properly and my baked goods always came out perfect, so it’s not that cups don’t offer accuracy but scales do make it easier to measure..
My problem with cups/teaspoons is that when measuring honey or sticky or oily substances you create another dirty tool to be washed.
With a scale you end up with less dishes to wash along with higher accuracy.
Did I miss something?
Thanks for this tip!
I've been doing this ever since I saw the oatmeal choco chip cookies video. Thank you!
I just started watching your videos and love them. I prefer weighing ingredients too but didn’t realize they could be off that much if you dipped the cup into the bag. I did learn from Martha Stewart to use the spoon method. Anyway, I I just found a conversion chart on King Arthur Flour’s website that has a big list of ingredients that converts cup measurements into grams or ounces.
A new slogan for a tee shirt, "Fluff Ur Flower." Another awesome tip John. Thank you.
thank you for your tips..it really help me
I never knew about this. I’m guilty of patting the flour in my measuring cup and wondered why my cakes never came out right. Now I know. I paused ur video and went on Amazon to order my scale. Now im going to try to make my own strips and see what happens. I love ur videos! You make it look so easy. Thank you and keep those videos coming.
I'm so happy you enjoyed the video Nancy!! Happy Baking!
"You can live your life." Love that!
Very informative, thanks for sharing this video..
YAAAAAAAAAS. Mr. Kanell! ♥️ Someone needed to do this!
I’d rather be a nerd than a crappy baker!
Thank You sssoooo much for this informative video. done my part of several failed baked goods because of wrong measurement of flour. so it’s confirmed that it’s all bec. of wrong measurement. Well, lesson learned 😊
What a good thing, how many times I experienced that and finally I learned it is better to weigh the flour than measure it with a cup thank very much is very good video!😉👍
Thank you I just bought the measuring cup. 🙏
How did i not know this! I’m not a firm packer, but i’m definitely a scooper. I’m going to run to the kitchen and weigh my cup of flour now, see how far out i am 😬
I love your tips & tricks!
Don't forget to weigh your scoop!
Oh my gosh ty for this video! Every where I look it says 1 cup is 130g and KA site says 120g. You have set my mind at ease. I have just started baking breads and measuring has been the pits.
I literally feel like crying after following a recipe to the T and it turns put like crap. Thank you so much🙌🏼
Great tip
Thank you for the information I will definitely be fluffing my flour until I buy a scale😊
because of you I now have a scale! TY!
This is totally awesome video I can’t tell you how many quarts of buttermilk have come and gone in my refrigerator!!!
Thanks it helps me a lot. More power
Thank you so much for this video,its really helpful..🙂