Forget having to wash measuring cups and spoons, the kitchen scale lets you cook without the big clean up.

Not only will your clean-up be quicker, but your cakes will be tastier. According to food writer and culinary expert Michael Ruhlman,

“Recipes work better when you weigh ingredients. A cup of flour can weigh between 4 and 6 ounces. That means if you’ve got a bread or cake recipe that calls for 4 cups of flour, you might measure out 16 ounces or 24 ounces—a 50% difference in the main ingredient! No wonder people are so afraid of making their own cake. Measuring is easier and cleaner and results in fewer dirty measuring cups when you use a scale. You can measure everything right into your mixing bowl. Have you ever tried to measure out a cup of shortening? It’s a mess.”

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