Used to eyeball my butter for pie crust, now I weigh it after a disaster in November

Harper Young · 2026-10-30T23:25:03.448695+00:00

My crusts came out tough for years until I finally weighed the flour and butter on a $12 kitchen scale instead of scooping. Turns out I was off by about 30 grams every time, which explains the hockey pucks I served at Thanksgiving in 2023. Has anyone switched back to eyeballing after weighing, or is the scale just part of life now?

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