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amother
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Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 4:14 am
for those of you who have a food scale, what do you use it for?
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Iymnok




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 4:19 am
I weigh my flour for challah.
When I buy in bulk and split with a friend.
To settle a dispute with dh!
When a recipe calls for 2lb potatoes.

I tried for a newborn, but it wasn't big enough.
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Liebs




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 4:29 am
Potato Kugel (I adjust recipe to how many lbs I have)
Challah (I sift 12 bags at a time and then prepare them in 5 lb bags)
Meat recipes (cook x amount of time per lb.)
Chicken cutlets (to figure out how much to use for a meal)
Any time a recipe says x amount of x. Ex. 12 oz noodles and my bags come in 14 oz.
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cm




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 6:09 am
Baking, mostly.
Any recipe that would work best with precise measurements.
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Raisin




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 6:11 am
I use mine 6 times a day. Uk recipes usually come with weights eg 150gr of sugar so I use it for that. (much prefer it to israeli or us recipes which go by cups and I am never quite sure what cup size - seperate cups for dry or wet ingredients? same size cup for everything?

I use a challah recipe that has 6lbs of flour and my flour comes in 1.5kg bags.

I weigh food that I am eating to make sure portions are not too big.
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amother
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Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 6:28 am
For potatoes to make potato kugel, because potatoes come in so many different sizes, I feel that you can't really go by the number of potatoes in the recipe.
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ra_mom




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 6:39 am
Pieces of dough before rolling out and braiding challah so that each challah comes out to be the same size.
Ground meat and chicken cutlets that come in large packages so I can divide and freeze them in proper meal amounts.
Meat portions for myself so I know how much I'm eating (I don't find chicken necessary since I can just eat 1 chicken leg quarter or 1 side of chicken breast and know that it's a proper portion without weighing).
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amother
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Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 7:08 am
amother wrote:
For potatoes to make potato kugel, because potatoes come in so many different sizes, I feel that you can't really go by the number of potatoes in the recipe.


So how much should each potato weigh? I use six potatoes in my recipe and sometimes comes out different because of the size of potato.
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MrsDash




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 7:11 am
I weigh baby birds. 😄
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amother
Khaki


 

Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 7:15 am
my diet which is all measured I weight
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little_mage




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 7:25 am
I mainly use it when making bread and pizza dough. I'll also use it if a recipe calls for a veggie weight. The other main time I use it is to get even sized hamburger patties. I cover it in plastic wrap and weigh the raw meat.
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MiracleMama




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 7:52 am
When I'm dieting I use it to portion things out for myself. Once in a while I will pull it out to see if the stores are being honest (weighing meat, produce sold by weight, etc.). Also every once in a blue moon for a recipe that I have to measure things by weight that I would normally measure by cups.
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cbg




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 8:00 am
DH sometimes uses it to see how much he needs to eat to make a kazayit.
Challah, other baking uses.
Diets.
If you go to Marshallahs you can usually find a good scale for about $20.
It's useful to have, but not necessary.
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amother
Peach


 

Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 8:37 am
amother wrote:
my diet which is all measured I weight


Same here... On TLC
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amother
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Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 9:01 am
I weigh and measure all my food..
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asmileaday




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 9:06 am
I weigh the strands of dough when making challah so I get even sized challos.
I'll also weigh chocolate for use in a recipe.
But mostly for challah. I wouldn't be able to make challah without it!
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amother
cornflower


 

Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 9:21 am
I use it to mail packages. I can plug exact weight into usps website and print out shipping labels.
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Chickpea




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 9:42 am
asmileaday wrote:
I weigh the strands of dough when making challah so I get even sized challos.
I'll also weigh chocolate for use in a recipe.
But mostly for challah. I wouldn't be able to make challah without it!

I was thinking about buying one for when I make challah. What brand do you have? About how much does it cost?
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sky




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 10:19 am
When dieting to weigh chicken\fish\meat
When baking:
- flour
- dough for shaping challah
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cm




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, Oct 13 2016, 10:27 am
Chickpea wrote:
I was thinking about buying one for when I make challah. What brand do you have? About how much does it cost?


Another challah baker here - I use the Escali Primo scale, about $25. I like it because it has a high enough weight limit for most recipes, small enough increments for weighing things like salt and baking powder, a display which is somewhat forward from the platform so I can see it when a bowl is on top, and easy switching between metric and non-metric measurements.
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