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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there can be multiple reasons for this. First, people don’t know how to follow a basic recipe. They substitute or change measurements and ingredients that are critical to making a baked product work.

People don’t know how to measure properly.  I weigh my ingredients out because it’s precise and I’ll always get the same measurement. For someone using volume, one cup of flour will be different than somebody else else’s cup of flour because of the way they scoop it or pack it in or sift. But by weighing it, you’ll always get the exact same amount.

Lastly, there are a lot of really awful recipes out there on the Internet.[/quote]

To be honest, I'm not convinced that everyone knows about measuring cups, either.

I remember meeting a dog (a very overweight one) whose owners could not figure out why it was so heavy, given they were giving it just one scoop of food, twice a day. Turned out, the "scoop" wasn't a cup measure, more like one of those scoops you use to get ice out of hotel ice machines. I can just imagine people like this just using whatever is handy as a "cup".[/quote]

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