Oh, this is a post with which I whole-heartedly agree! Ever since I purchased the King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking book, (complete with weight chart in the back), I've measured my ingredients for all baking. What a difference it makes! Yes, it is much faster. And the clean-up is so much less. Agree, agree, agree!!! But the best part is that I can make the upward or downward adjustments on recipes, which makes me a versatile baker. I feel invincible!! Now, I use my measuring cups for things like measuring portions of cereal in the morning (and I can leave the cup in the container until the cereal is gone.....) and for portioning out cooked soup. Accuracy is less important in those cases as opposed to being fair when dividing food between several hungry people. I don't know why more people don't insist on weighing food. Even recipes in grams can be made now without conversion -- just change the button on the scale!

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