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> Would you rather use 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda or measure 2.5 grams on a kitchen scale?

Not every ingredient has a density of water, so these aren't necessarily the same.




Which is exactly why I would advise OP against trying to convert their teaspoons into grams. Unless they're very careful, they're bound to get inaccurate results.

As it happens, baking soda has a density of 2.2g/cm^3. But the powdered form contains lots of air between the granules, so the actual density comes down to somewhere just above the density of water. Using 3g instead of 2.5g in a recipe, though, will yield very different results.




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