Chicken Broth
Chicken broth weighs 240g per cup — essentially water density. The base of countless soups, risottos, and pan sauces. Use low-sodium for cooking so you control the salt; full-sodium broth concentrated by reduction becomes inedibly salty. Homemade from a roasted carcass is dramatically more flavorful than canned — simmer bones with mirepoix for 3-4 hours, then strain and reduce. Refrigerate up to 5 days or freeze in 1-cup portions for 6 months.
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03 // WHY IT MATTERS
If your cookies spread, your bread is gummy, or your cake sinks — flour weight is usually why.
A scooped cup of flour can weigh anywhere from 125g to 180g. That's a 44% range — enough to wreck a cake.
Modern recipes use the spoon-and-level method: fluff the flour, spoon it into a dry measuring cup without packing, then sweep flat with a knife.
The scoop method — pushing the cup directly into the bag — packs in 40-50% more flour.