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Flour is one of the most frightening ingredients to be measured by volume. Since the flour is easy to compress or ventilated, depending on how it is treated, the weight of the cup is very variable – it can greatly influence baking. There are two main approaches to measure the amount of flour: immersion and spoon.
The dive method
The immersion method (often called “dip and sweep”) is probably more intuitive for home bakers. Correctly assumes that the average person grabs a cup of measurement, sticks to the bag and throws the flour. Partly, the force used to empty the flour greatly determines the amount they will in the cup, but this can also be influenced by the extent to which the flour is compacted. For example, a brand new flour bag can be very compact, but half full is slightly ventilated. Bakers who pour the flour from a bag into a container have well -air flour. Due four -six ounces per cup– According to these data, Serious Eats has historically based recipe converts from the crowd to quantity: a five ounces cup of universal flour.
The spoon method
The spoon method includes flour from the bag to a measuring cup that is not as intuitive and requires a little more effort. But this also greatly eliminates the risk of compression and results in a rather usual four and a half ounce cup. In a culinary school, this method was taught as the most accurate method to measure the amount of flour and you can see it my next cookbook– Of course, with mass measurements!
The best way to measure the flour
When I first joined Serious Eats, I went to mass binding with the existing politics based on the sauce method, with a five ounces cup of universal flour. But since I grew up more comfortably in the dough wizard Here I felt to return to my workout and switch to the method that offers the most consultant results for volume measurements.
My first recommendation on flour measurement is always using the digital kitchen scale. For those who do not have this, my volume measurements related to universal flour are based on the spoon method, each cup weighs four and a half ounces. Just like brown sugar is often listed “1 cup, solid pack”, the measurement method is simply listed next to the sum.