I'm Throwing Out The Measuring Cups!!!!
Decorating By imaginecakes Updated 25 May 2007 , 6:32pm by imaginecakes
Ok, so for those of you who have tried to help me in the past...I will give you a little update. My cakes have all been coming out with a sinkhole in the middle. I thought it was due to my moving from sea level to Fort Collins (high altitude) ...so I tried adjusting my ingredients...nothing. I bought a oven themometer to check my oven temp...it was fine...I tried the Flower nail and the bake even strips...still no luck! I finally decided to weigh all of my ingredients for a cake I made yesterday...And Viola!!! Cake turns out perfect!! And no wonder!!! My recipe called for 16 ounces of butter...which should be 2 sticks...but when I put one of the sticks onto the scale...to my shock...it weighed only 7.65 onces!!! 
So I weighed the other one...and same thing!! 
Then I thought well...maybe my scale is off...so I put a 3 lb. dumbell on it to check, and it was fine!!!! No wonder I was having such issues!! Maybe the butter situation was just a fluke...but I really don't care...I am weighing it all from now on!
Just thought I would share my discovery! 
My husband gave me a nice kitchen scale for mother's day because he firmly believes all baking should be done by weight (thanks to Alton Brown). My only problem is that I have many recipes that only give volume measurements! Sorry to hijack your thread, but does anyone know of a site that could tell you, 1c flour = X oz?
My husband gave me a nice kitchen scale for mother's day because he firmly believes all baking should be done by weight (thanks to Alton Brown). My only problem is that I have many recipes that only give volume measurements! Sorry to hijack your thread, but does anyone know of a site that could tell you, 1c flour = X oz?
Acually I forsee that problem in the future for me as well!
You can use Google's search bar as a conversion calculator. There are lots of conversion websites too. Google away!
http://conversions.cookingcache.com/
1 cup all-purpose pre-sifted flour = 5 ounces (from website above)
each stick of butter is just half a cup, so really each stick is only supposed to be 4 oz. you would need 4 sticks of butter to get 16 oz, or as your scale revealed 4 sticks and prolly 2-3 tbsp. 
http://www.culinarycafe.com/UK_US.html
That's one good website. There are a list of equivalents of ingredients to 1c in oz as well as grams on this page!
The Cake Bible is also a great book to have for this sort of thing!
each stick of butter is just half a cup, so really each stick is only supposed to be 4 oz. you would need 4 sticks of butter to get 16 oz, or as your scale revealed 4 sticks and prolly 2-3 tbsp.
Your right... I meant a whole box...(2 sicks) only weighed in at 7.65 ounces!! Opps!! 
You can buy butter/margarine 2 sticks to a box? I've never seen that around here? What does the weight say on the box?
Yes, it is the "challenge" brand...and it says net wt. 8 oz. (1/2 lb.)
I aslo have boxes with 4 sticks ( 1 lb ) I buy one of two brands...depending on what is on sale. 
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