Omelet wrote:
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zxcvbob wrote:


Using mine today for mixing grout -- I only wanted to mix up 1/4 of a
box for the first batch, and for weighing a package. Used it a couple
of days ago for weighing lead ingots. I use it occasionally for
cooking, too (especially with hard- or messy-to-measure items like brown
sugar, honey, lard, etc)

Bob

Ooh, never thought of using it to weigh ingots.
Why? Do you sell them?

I'd use the grain scale after they were cast...

The grain scale has only a dedicated use. I'll never use it for food.

??? what does a scale care what is weighed on it? I weigh anything on
mine. It switches from metric to pounds and helps avoid stodgy baking
on very humid days-- common here .

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Giusi wrote:

Omelet wrote:
In article ,
zxcvbob wrote:


Using mine today for mixing grout -- I only wanted to mix up 1/4 of a
box for the first batch, and for weighing a package. Used it a couple
of days ago for weighing lead ingots. I use it occasionally for
cooking, too (especially with hard- or messy-to-measure items like brown
sugar, honey, lard, etc)

Bob

Ooh, never thought of using it to weigh ingots.
Why? Do you sell them?

I'd use the grain scale after they were cast...

The grain scale has only a dedicated use. I'll never use it for food.

??? what does a scale care what is weighed on it? I weigh anything on
mine. It switches from metric to pounds and helps avoid stodgy baking
on very humid days-- common here .

Sweetie, a grain scale is for measuring bullet weights and powder load
weights for charging gun cartridges.

The weights are too critical for me to mess up the scale using food, and
it weighs in grains rather than ounces or grams.

I'm not going to mess with conversions. ;-)

I have a salter scale that weighs in Ounces and Grams for cooking and
food!
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Omelet wrote:
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The grain scale has only a dedicated use. I'll never use it for food.
??? what does a scale care what is weighed on it? I weigh anything on
mine. It switches from metric to pounds and helps avoid stodgy baking
on very humid days-- common here .

Sweetie, a grain scale is for measuring bullet weights and powder load
weights for charging gun cartridges.

The weights are too critical for me to mess up the scale using food, and
it weighs in grains rather than ounces or grams.

I'm not going to mess with conversions. ;-)

I have a salter scale that weighs in Ounces and Grams for cooking and
food!

Ahhh, I'd forgotten about those. You'd need a dedicated PC to convert
the weights. You must work all night, yes?

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Giusi wrote:

Omelet wrote:
In article ,

The grain scale has only a dedicated use. I'll never use it for food.
??? what does a scale care what is weighed on it? I weigh anything on
mine. It switches from metric to pounds and helps avoid stodgy baking
on very humid days-- common here .

Sweetie, a grain scale is for measuring bullet weights and powder load
weights for charging gun cartridges.

The weights are too critical for me to mess up the scale using food, and
it weighs in grains rather than ounces or grams.

I'm not going to mess with conversions. ;-)

I have a salter scale that weighs in Ounces and Grams for cooking and
food!

Ahhh, I'd forgotten about those. You'd need a dedicated PC to convert
the weights. You must work all night, yes?

Yes, I work night shifts... I don't post from work tho'. I'm on vacation
this week but my sleep schedules are still messed up. :-)
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On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:38:14 -0700, merryb wrote:

On Jun 6, 8:53 am, Chatty Cathy wrote:
http://www.recfoodcooking.com/

Vote now!

Thanks go to Terry (P'rfesser) for sending in this survey
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Is this scale for weighing ingredients or portion control? I use one
when I bake.

Either one. This survey popped into my mind as I was ordering a
couple of new scales from www.wholesale-scale.com. (Just a satisfied
customer.) Kitchen scales 2000 g +-1 g are $20, but I've already got
one. I don't use it often but when it's needed, it's really needed.

If'n you're REALLY cheap they've got a 600 gram scale good to 0.1 g
for ten bucks (American Weigh ZX3-600). It's a bit small, hard to
weigh a bowl on it.

Best -- Terry

On Jun 6, 2:38 pm, Sheldon wrote:
Omelet wrote:

I do have one and the only thing I've used it for lately is sausage
making. There are times when measuring really counts. :-)

I would think for sausage you'd use a yardstick... you mean you weigh
them too? hehe

Sheldon

Quite a while ago, I saw something in my husband's Penthouse
about measuring by displacement. That way you can
optimize in two dimensions rather than in just one.

Cindy Hamilton

I love mine. I have a Salter brand and I use it for food and mail.

-L.


Ok good, I'm not the only one that uses mine for mail. I do use it for
baking as well. Much more precise than a measuring cup.

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Omelet wrote:
In article ,
zxcvbob wrote:

Chatty Cathy wrote:
http://www.recfoodcooking.com/

Vote now!

Thanks go to Terry (P'rfesser) for sending in this survey

Using mine today for mixing grout -- I only wanted to mix up 1/4 of a
box for the first batch, and for weighing a package. Used it a couple
of days ago for weighing lead ingots. I use it occasionally for
cooking, too (especially with hard- or messy-to-measure items like brown
sugar, honey, lard, etc)

Bob

Ooh, never thought of using it to weigh ingots.
Why? Do you sell them?



No, I wanted to see how much lead I had recovered. Also curious to see
what weight ingots the little 2.5 ounce muffin-shaped condiment cups
threw (about 1 pound 10 ounces) I suppose I could have calculated that
from the volume and the specific gravity of lead, discounting a little
for the tin, etc.

The Revereware pan that I used for smelting the dirt and scum skimmed
off from the first melt will never be the same. :-) But from 6 pounds
of "dirt" that was suspiciously heavy, I recovered almost 4 more pounds
of hard lead that casts well without any added tin. (You can email me
for more details cuz this is kind of off-topic.) I also know that next
time I melt scrounged lead that's badly oxidized to add some oil and let
it cook in a tightly covered pan for an hour or two. The oil will try
to burn, and the only source of oxygen will be from reducing the metal
oxides, increasing the yield quite a bit. It doesn't even stink and
smoke all that /much/ (still, do it outside) because the lid traps most
of it until it eventually burns up as carbon dioxide and water vapor.

Bob

In article ,
zxcvbob wrote:

Omelet wrote:
In article ,
zxcvbob wrote:

Chatty Cathy wrote:
http://www.recfoodcooking.com/

Vote now!

Thanks go to Terry (P'rfesser) for sending in this survey

Using mine today for mixing grout -- I only wanted to mix up 1/4 of a
box for the first batch, and for weighing a package. Used it a couple
of days ago for weighing lead ingots. I use it occasionally for
cooking, too (especially with hard- or messy-to-measure items like brown
sugar, honey, lard, etc)

Bob

Ooh, never thought of using it to weigh ingots.
Why? Do you sell them?



No, I wanted to see how much lead I had recovered. Also curious to see
what weight ingots the little 2.5 ounce muffin-shaped condiment cups
threw (about 1 pound 10 ounces) I suppose I could have calculated that
from the volume and the specific gravity of lead, discounting a little
for the tin, etc.

What are you melting?
Are you doing what I am doing and harvesting berm led? :-)

If you need an ingot mold, let me know. I can get them from Cabela's and
they are only 19 miles down the freeway.


The Revereware pan that I used for smelting the dirt and scum skimmed
off from the first melt will never be the same. :-)

I plan on getting a cheap Lodge cast iron pot and one of those outdoor
propane flame thingies they use to deep fry turkeys. It'll be dedicated
for lead harvesting.


But from 6 pounds
of "dirt" that was suspiciously heavy, I recovered almost 4 more pounds
of hard lead that casts well without any added tin. (You can email me
for more details cuz this is kind of off-topic.)

I am curious, is this e-mail valid?
If I can avoid having to purchase tin...
I can get Antimony for $8.00 per lb. but have yet to find a good Tin
source.

I also know that next
time I melt scrounged lead that's badly oxidized to add some oil and let
it cook in a tightly covered pan for an hour or two. The oil will try
to burn, and the only source of oxygen will be from reducing the metal
oxides, increasing the yield quite a bit. It doesn't even stink and
smoke all that /much/ (still, do it outside) because the lid traps most
of it until it eventually burns up as carbon dioxide and water vapor.

Ok, I don't understand that one. Oil???


Bob

Danke! :-)
E-mail sent.
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On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:53:56 +0200, Chatty Cathy
wrote:

http://www.recfoodcooking.com/

Vote now!

Thanks go to Terry (P'rfesser) for sending in this survey

Looking at the results today.... I'm guessing a lot of Americans are
on diets. I don't think the "scales" would tip so heavily in favor of
weighing food if that wasn't the case because I don't think we have
enough OW (Other World) participants to tip them like that.

So a follow up survey could be about the reason why people use food
scales. PS: I don't invent surveys, I just expand them (in my mind).


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On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:46:38 -0500, Skyhooks
wrote:

Chatty Cathy wrote:

http://www.recfoodcooking.com/

Vote now!

Thanks go to Terry (P'rfesser) for sending in this survey
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Yippee, I made the first vote But, oh the dilemma, which TFH to
select G. Cathy, thanks for doing all the surveys - I very much enjoy
them.

Sky

Which hat did you settle on... or did you design a new one?

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sf wrote:
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:53:56 +0200, Chatty Cathy
wrote:

http://www.recfoodcooking.com/

Thanks go to Terry (P'rfesser) for sending in this survey

Looking at the results today.... I'm guessing a lot of Americans are
on diets. I don't think the "scales" would tip so heavily in favor of
weighing food if that wasn't the case because I don't think we have
enough OW (Other World) participants to tip them like that.

So a follow up survey could be about the reason why people use food
scales. PS: I don't invent surveys, I just expand them (in my mind).

I don't think that follows. Weighing is more accurate, always. If you
need to scale a recipe up or down, weighing outdoes measuring every time.

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On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:55:27 +0200, Giusi wrote:

sf wrote:
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:53:56 +0200, Chatty Cathy
wrote:

http://www.recfoodcooking.com/

Thanks go to Terry (P'rfesser) for sending in this survey

Looking at the results today.... I'm guessing a lot of Americans are
on diets. I don't think the "scales" would tip so heavily in favor of
weighing food if that wasn't the case because I don't think we have
enough OW (Other World) participants to tip them like that.

So a follow up survey could be about the reason why people use food
scales. PS: I don't invent surveys, I just expand them (in my mind).

I don't think that follows.

Of course it does - if you're an American.

Weighing is more accurate, always. If you
need to scale a recipe up or down, weighing outdoes measuring every time.

I am not a scientist and don't pretend to be one, so I don't need to
weigh food and don't have any desire to begin. The only time I've
ever weighed food was to get an idea of portion control for a diet...
IOW what x oz of something looked like. After I got the general idea,
I stopped weighing food and the scale went on the top shelf to gather
dust until it was thrown out.

So, for me:
Weighing food as portion control while dieting is a possibility
Weighing food just to cook - never.

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sf wrote:

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:55:27 +0200, Giusi wrote:

sf wrote:
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:53:56 +0200, Chatty Cathy
wrote:

http://www.recfoodcooking.com/

Thanks go to Terry (P'rfesser) for sending in this survey

Looking at the results today.... I'm guessing a lot of Americans are
on diets. I don't think the "scales" would tip so heavily in favor of
weighing food if that wasn't the case because I don't think we have
enough OW (Other World) participants to tip them like that.

So a follow up survey could be about the reason why people use food
scales. PS: I don't invent surveys, I just expand them (in my mind).

I don't think that follows.

Of course it does - if you're an American.

Weighing is more accurate, always. If you
need to scale a recipe up or down, weighing outdoes measuring every time.

I am not a scientist and don't pretend to be one, so I don't need to
weigh food and don't have any desire to begin. The only time I've
ever weighed food was to get an idea of portion control for a diet...
IOW what x oz of something looked like. After I got the general idea,
I stopped weighing food and the scale went on the top shelf to gather
dust until it was thrown out.

So, for me:
Weighing food as portion control while dieting is a possibility
Weighing food just to cook - never.

Baking requires accuracy and recipes from any professional source are
pretty much always by weight.

"Pete C." wrote in message
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sf wrote:

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:55:27 +0200, Giusi wrote:


I don't think that follows.

Of course it does - if you're an American.

Weighing is more accurate, always. If you
need to scale a recipe up or down, weighing outdoes measuring every
time.

I am not a scientist and don't pretend to be one, so I don't need to
weigh food and don't have any desire to begin. The only time I've
ever weighed food was to get an idea of portion control for a diet...
IOW what x oz of something looked like. After I got the general idea,
I stopped weighing food and the scale went on the top shelf to gather
dust until it was thrown out.

So, for me:
Weighing food as portion control while dieting is a possibility
Weighing food just to cook - never.

Baking requires accuracy and recipes from any professional source are
pretty much always by weight.


Baking doesn't *require* that degree of accuracy. Recipes from professional
sources generally make way too much for the home cook. Not many people have
an oven large enough to make a full sheet cake.

It's possible to bake a cake or bread without even using measuring cups and
spoons!!! I know, a rather shocking statement. My Great Grandmother did it
for around 80 years though. I use measuring cups and spoons because I have
to use something to get the ingredients out of the canister/container and I
have them.


Ms P