Measurements help!

[akina_love]

I'm want to make this receipe: http://crepesofwrath.net/2011/06/29/infamous-jacques-torres-chocolate-chip-cookies/ but the measurements are all in US cups. I've tried converting them but every website I look at gives slightly different

Comments

[dinnee]

The 'problem' with cups versus weights is that a cup is an amount in size. So the weight varies per substance.. A cup of sugar weighs something completely different than a cup of flour.

What you can do, is take a regular cup, and proportion all the ingredients accordingly.

Sorry I can't offer any more help. Perhaps someone else knows?

[gratiela]

Hello!
I usually stumble with these conversions too, so I use some sites that offer help:
this one: http://www.tuscanrecipes.com/cooking-tips/measurement-conversions.html and this other one: http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/cooking.htm
But I guess if you eye-measure sometimes won't be a disaster, specially for cookies! *cough* but then I'm a beginner myself, don't swear by me
Good luck!
But don't be discouraged if things get a bit wrong, there's always a next time! ;D

[loudmere]

As a baker from the US who uses her scale as often as she can... I agree. The problem is that very few companies write their recipes in anything other than cups!

[oosha]

really? I mean, i'm not a great baker, but i love doing things.. and i love cups! in my country everything is measured in gr, and i hate it! cups are easier, simple.. although i can agree that on meticulous recipes it's not that handy...!

[loudmere]

I see that by the photo, the author used King Arthur flour. That company writes a lot of recipes to help out people who use their products. The company writes its recipes in both weight & US cups so it has a good chart I use to convert. (Mind it is just cups to ounces, but I bet you could easily convert ounces to grams if that's what you prefer) Here's a link to their chart. http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes2008/master-weight-chart.html I find it is rather accurate to how I measure using US cups.

[akina_love]

just tried this and one website says cake flour is 190g and this says says 227g. so different ):

[loudmere]

You might just be better off baking it by proportions. Use a coffee cup as your "cup" and try to do your best with that. Or you could round & say that a "cup" of cake flour is 200g. My understanding is that it's the proportions of baking that are important to keep and as long as everything is proportionate, all should be fine.

[velum_cado]

I'm an American living in the UK and this is exactly what I do when I'm using US recipes. Works like a charm!

[tearsofthegods]

I am of absolutely no assistance, but you've inspired me to make these cookies again.