I use a digital scale all the time, mainly because I buy a lot of ingredients in bulk, and if I didn’t have a scale, I would have to guess as to what constitutes a pound of beans. Bakers prefer to weigh flour because it is more accurate than measuring it by volume, and I …read more…

I only use wooden or bamboo cutting boards. Plastic or acrylic ones dull your knives, and a dull knife on a slick surface (especially made slicker by the juice escaping from whatever you’re cutting up) is going to slip. Some people prefer plastic cutting boards in the mistaken belief that plastic ones don’t allow bacteria …read more…