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Why nobody tells you not to cheap out on baking scales
I bought a $12 scale off Amazon last year and it worked fine for a few months. Then last week I made a batch of croissants and they came out like bricks. Turns out the scale was off by about 15 grams on bigger amounts so my dough hydration was all wrong. I wasted like $30 worth of butter and flour on that one batch. Switched to a $40 OXO scale from the local kitchen store and now every bake is coming out right. Anyone else have a cheap scale mess up their measurements before?
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wright.leo2d ago
Did your croissants also come out dense and sad, or was it just me and my shame?
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olivia_lopez982d ago
Doesn't it feel like everything in life lately is promising to be light and flaky but ends up dense and disappointing? Like how my favorite leggings are supposed to be "buttery soft" but actually pill after two washes. Or how that new streaming show everyone's obsessed with is supposed to be amazing but the plot just falls apart halfway through. These croissants are just a really buttery metaphor for how overhyped everything is now. We keep getting sold on the dream of effortless perfection and then we're stuck with our sad, flat results in real life.
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violag801d agoMost Upvoted
Oh man, you absolutely nailed it with that croissant metaphor. I mean, that's exactly it, right? We keep getting sold this idea that everything should be easy and perfect right out of the box, like the leggings or the show, but real life just doesn't work that way. It's like people forget that anything worth having usually takes some effort or at least a little patience before it actually delivers. And honestly, I think that whole "effortless perfection" thing is a load of marketing garbage anyway. It sets us up to feel like failures when the thing doesn't live up to the hype, when really it's just that the hype was never realistic in the first place. Maybe we'd all be happier if we just accepted that most things are gonna be a little dense and sad sometimes, and that's okay.
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