How much does a cup of flour weigh?
Here’s a question that seems to pop up on a fairly regular basis in the bread forums. Someone sees a recipe that requires 3.5 cups of flour, or one that looks for 368g of flour. Either way, they’re used to the other method of measuring and they run [...]

 
A little later…
UPDATE to the “New Stove” post of a few days back:
Well, I decided to give the oven a good bake, so I put the bird in the basement in a closed room with a window then went and cranked on the Self-Clean for two hours. Man it stunk!! But that seemed to do [...]

Hooray and yippeee!
My god, what a load of buttons! Pre-heat, RAPID Preheat, Bake, CONTROL Bake, Convection, Broil… and a whole bunch more for the cook top, as well as other things there’s not buttons for (“Accutemp”, etc.), Steam Cleaning, Double Burners, when to use the Rapid Preheat and when not to… 
I can see this thing [...]

Still no bread baking this week.
However, we stumbled on a little extra tax-rebate cash and decided to finally upgrade the current “Burn-O-Matic” piece of poop GE oven we are putting up with. Went oven shopping and after much confusing sales pitches and questionable claims – “Oh, AccuTemp is much better than TruTemp” What? – we settled on [...]

What I’m about to list here is what I’ve managed to collect so far or feel I need to get a basic bread making set up, It’s not necessarily ALL the toys and gadgets and must-haves one must have but it’s what seems to be a decent starting-out set up. Anyone who cares suggest/recommend other [...]