Topic: Recipe measurements

[Domi]

Pathetic, CA...absolutely pathetic. I won't rise to you, just so you know.

[Cory Ander]

Pathetic, CA...absolutely pathetic. I won't rise to you, just so you know.

QED Domi  :

[string28]

I just dont get why people are being like this.
We are on this forum to learn or have we all forgotten that?
We all can make our own minds up on whats the right measures are.(no big thing really trial and error people thats why its fun cooking)
To belittle people on the forum is not the way for us to learn and will turn people off the forum.
IF we watch the videos and look at the ways the curries are been made then we can learn from them.
Dont just slag the posters off because you dont like what they post (eg measure,pastes powders,oils,TA,BIR and so on) this is a forum with many different tastes so lets all get along people.

[Razor]

Guy's

Ok (can't believe I'm posting this ffs)

Just done an experiment with 2 tsp's and 2 dsp's that I have in my drawer.  Each spoon is visibly different from each other.  I borrowed some scales off druggie Dave next door, so I know these will be bang on accurate

1st tsp = 7g
2nd tsp = 11g

I heaped both tsp's as much as I could

1st dsp = 22g
2nd dsp = 27g  (I nicked this spoon from my fave BIR, once a Manc, always a Manc ;D)

I heaped both dsp's as much as I could also!

I'm not posting this to stir things up :, I just think it confirms to me, that next time I post a recipe, I will make my measurement rules clear at the very beginning, that being, use levelled metric measuring spoons.  I don't think giving them in weights would be too practical, unless, you have a druggie Dave living next door to ya too

[Cory Ander]

I'm not posting this to stir things up

Well, that is what spoons are for Ray 

[Razor]

Nice CA,

Glad you picked up on that lol

Ray ;D

[peterandjen]

Im more concerned now with Delia Smiths lack of precision in the kitchen.

[Malc.]

Well I have in a manor of speaking, looked at what I am using as a tablespoon and roughly equates to about 20ml. I say roughly as I can't find my measuring spoons so couldn't measure it accurately. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it were over either.

I think probably the best solution is for each recipe to simply say what a measure equates to.

I would like us all to work in chefs spoons, it makes us sound better.

[Razor]

Axe,

I would work with chef's pinches, but I've got one hand bigger than the other

Ray ;D

[Malc.]

Im more concerned now with Delia Smiths lack of precision in the kitchen.

How so, is it any different to a BIR chef. The amount they cook and the amount Delia has cooked, surely it's enough to get a feel for quantities. If you know the ratio and use the same method, surely it can't go wrong.

I've heard time and again from professional chefs and the celebrity chefs, the only time you really need to be very specific with quantities is when baking or making desserts.