Measuring Cup or Food Scale??
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Think about having to measure two teaspoons of cashews, or 1/2 cup of an apple or of any irregularly shaped food item, and it seems a little silly to think that you can get an accurate calorie count if you are using cups and spoons. The digital scale is far more accurate. Plus, if you use a plate or bowl into which you are going to put the food, you can weigh it in that and save yourself some washing up!0
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Scale for solids
Cup for liquids0 -
Since weight loss depends entirely on caloric intake, a scale is going to be the most accurate because, like someone stated above, calories are based on weight, not volume.0
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Not only is a scale more accurate, IMO it's also easier & less-time consuming.
Make sure your scale has a "tare" or "zero" function, will display negatives, and will weigh weights up to at least several pound.
Three tips that helped me:- If making something like a salad, or a dish where you put several things in a pot before cooking, put the container on the scale & tare/zero it. Add the first ingredient. Note it. Tare again. Add the 2nd ingredient. Note it. Repeat until everything's added.
- If dipping something out of a container, like peanut butter or jam: Put the open jar on the scale. Tare/zero. Dip out your quantity with a utensil. The scale should display a negative weight. Use the number as your quantity (positive, of course), and note it.
- If weighing out a bunch of fiddly little stuff that doesn't all go in a pan at once, I like to have a few recycled plastic yogurt lids at hand. Put a lid on the scale, tare, put some little messy ingredient on it (olives, say), note the weight. Put up another lid, tare, weigh the onion slices, note it. Repeat.
Easier, and no washing cups. (The yogurt lids just rinse, mostly.)0 -
Scale every time!0
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Alatariel75 wrote: »Food scale for solids, 100%. I can pretty much fit a whole block of grated cheese into a cup measure if I try hard enough.
This. It's amazing what you do when you are hungry. Food scale is definitely an eye opener.0 -
Scale.
You would be amazed at how many honey-roasted cashews I could cram into a 1/4 cup.0 -
scale if you really need to use either.. packing is what ruins the idea of cans/containers..0
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Scale. It also really annoys me when recipes are done in "cups".... What's wrong with just telling me how many grams to use?!0
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CelesseBoo wrote: »Scale. It also really annoys me when recipes are done in "cups".... What's wrong with just telling me how many grams to use?!
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CelesseBoo wrote: »Scale. It also really annoys me when recipes are done in "cups".... What's wrong with just telling me how many grams to use?!
IIRC cups developed as a way to measure things while the Europeans were settling NA. Scales were used before that, especially for baking, but were not easily available or transportable, so people started using cups, and that became standardized. It is a standard I wish would go away, especially for baking, as weighing ingredients is much easier and far more accurate which is very important when baking were a small ingredient difference can result in quite different results.0
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