Help! Volume or weight w liquids?!

[lizzieoak]

Oh heck. I lived in the UK for years but never got around to buying a scale (had baked for years with Canadian cups).

My son got me a scale and now I’m trying to make bagels from an Irish recipe (bit odd, but there you are) & am having massive brain fluff re liquid. If it says 300 grams of water does it mean weight or volume?

Might be blindingly obvious to you lot but not to colonials!

grams is weight. volume is ml.

Thanks! It’s a bit confusing as my measuring cup has ounces, ml, and 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 etc cups delineations on it.

Just getting the yeast going. Somehow I’ve never made bagels before so am going to knead the dough then leave to rest overnight and have a yummy breakfast. Doing Montreal style and it is a palaver!

I weigh water when baking bread as I feel it's more accurate. 300ml does weigh 300g.

Be careful with the weights on the measuring cups - it will be a weight of a specific item.
So a cup of flour and a cup of sugar have the same volume, but different weights.
Hope you have a delicious breakfast.

Thanks Sand. I’m sticking my empty measuring cup (habit to use it) on the scale, zeroing the scale, then weighing my ingredients. Bless my ds for buying this for me (us). I got an amazing National Trust baking book at a charity shop and it has the best brownie recipe, and now I can cook my Anna Jones recipes, Ottolenghi, and ... loads of others I was previously having to google translate every booody item.

Fingers crossed. They don’t seem to require much kneading. Proof overnight, divide into quarters, rest again, divide again and shape, rest, then boil and bake.

I’ve had New York and Montreal and much prefer Montreal, so that’s what I’m doing. Sometimes I buy them warm from the factory here so mine have to live up to that.

Water created the equivalence between weight and volume. 1g of water = 1ml. Doesn’t work for any other fluid. They prob used grams as you were adding water to ingredients already on the scale?

Just weighing one ingredient at a time, nothing else on the scale.

The dough felt right so I think the water amount was right.

Water created the equivalence between weight and volume. 1g of water = 1ml.

I am going to get specific now and say this is correct if it is weighed and measured at 20 degrees C.

I thought water had a density of 1 when measured at 4 degrees Celsius?