In Baking Hows, Whys, and WTFs, food editor Shilpa Uskokovic will answer your burning baking questions and share her tips and tricks for perfect sweets. Today, do you really need to bake with a scale?

A kitchen scale is only for pro chefs, right? Not so fast. We’d like to make the case that in any home kitchen, a scale is just as important as (if not more than) measuring cups. There are plenty of ...

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Compared with grilling up a steak or roasting veggies, baking pastries and cakes is tricky if not downright unforgiving to the uninitiated. Not only must you consider temperature and cooking time, all ...

The trick to perfect baking is to weigh ingredients, rather than measure them by volume. This is because varying amounts of air in items such as flour can significantly throw off your measurements.

Baking can be a furious endeavor. Throw a cook into a fully stocked kitchen with a set of measuring tools and anything can happen. That doesn't mean everything has to happen, though. Any chef could ...